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Unofficial Facebook iPad apps: What now?

Facebook has launched its new Universal app. The absence of a Facebook app in the App Store had paved the way for third-party developers to build Facebook apps using only developer API’s. To be clear, there’s nothing illicit or shady about these apps. Apple or Facebook would have shut them down if they were; Facebook [...]

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Appsfire 3.0 is here! Go get it

2 years and 3 million users later we’re happy to present you Appsfire 3.0 We tried to imagine the best experience a user could get to discover apps. We built on what we learned and designed the app from scrach again. We worked very hard and today we’re happy to present you our latest creation. [...]

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Spotify vs iPod. who impacts who?

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The other day a Techcrunch post pointed at a about how Spotify usage is jumping in usage in the US.  We wanted to take a look further and made our own little research specially by comparing to the iPod and its usage. See the infographic above. What we can learn (on a panel of several [...]

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There are now more than 450,000 apps to download in the iOS App Store: Details and data

On July 7, Apple announced that there were 425,000 apps in the App Store, of which 100,000 are iPad apps. A month later (August 5th to be precise), we just passed 450,000 active apps. By “active” apps we are talking about the number of apps that are actually live in one app store, not the total number of apps [...]

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Google+ #1 Free app in the App Store in no time. #1 in Apptrends a few hours before

Yesterday afternoon (French time) Google released Google+ iPhone App and the whole world (well nearly) jumped into the bandwagon. The App became #1 App in the Free Global section in the US app store in a matter of hours. Very few apps manage to get there that fast What is interesting is that you could [...]

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in 2011: App discovery is fragmented and partially owned by “App Stores”

A few months ago we published a map of the players involved in the App discovery value chain. A lot of has happened since and we decided to update. This is something we constantly keep track of for ourself, our shareholders and now for you. Many of those companies are direct competitors of Appsfire and [...]

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This $1.99 paid app is free today. scan it to discover which one!

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Apps for the Fourth of July

Appsfire wants to wish our fans in the USA a happy Independence Day! To celebrate the occasion we've put together an app mix with some great apps to help you enjoy the day along with a few great July 4 sales. Organizing or attending a BBQ? Weber's on the Grill is the go-to app for grilling. [...]

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What’s Cooking at Appsfire

It’s been a productive few months here at Appsfire. In addition to raising our Series A, we’ve been in heads-down, product-development mode while also growing the team. We’ve got some great stuff coming down the pipeline and wanted to share with you a few updates and previews. We’ve made some small updates to the Appsfire [...]

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Mobile App discovery is a developer AND a consumer problem. Here is why

Charles Hudson, a Venture Partner at Softech VC, declares in a blog post after having met " a bunch of companies and teams who are focusing on trying to solve the problem of mobile application discovery" [aka probably 50% of our competitors], that the app discovery problem [enabling apps to be easily found] is a developer [...]

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