We held our second App Stories mini conference at Microsoft in Paris on June 8. The event was co-sponsored by TechCrunch France, TechTocTV, and iphon.fr. It was another great event, with lots to learn and share. We’ll be hosting more App Stories in more cities soon, but in the meantime here are some photos from [...]

Today’s a special day for all the father’s day out there. Whether you’re planning a BBQ with the family, want to connect from a distance, or want to share some memories, there are lots of great apps out there to celebrate with Pop.  Here are some great apps for… The car-loving dad The GPS navigator dad  The sports [...]

In our last post about the Android Market, we dispelled the reports in TechCrunch by mobile research firms Distimo and research2guidance that the Android Market is set to surpass the App Store in size later this year. Distimo counted 206,143 Android applications as of March 2011; In research2guidance’s May report, they counted 294,738. Shortly after [...]

We were thrilled to launch yesterday ParisApps, the first ever discovery guide for apps that are Paris related which is part of a project of the City of Paris called (also) ParisApps, an initiative to promote paris related mobile apps App stores are known to be a hard place to browse and discover apps that [...]

Apple seems to stick to their position to prohibit incentivized or rewarded downloads. This policy hits directly companies like Tapjoy and others which sell pay per install campaigns within the in-app purchase process. Is that a good thing? Let’s start with a very important clarification: There is absolutely nothing wrong with Pay Per Install (or [...]

We’re excited today to announced we closed a new round of funding with the Top french VC IDinvest (who backed so many great startups like Dailymotion, Deezer, Criteo, Curse, Viadeo,…) You can read more about the news on TechCrunch, Gigaom, VentureBeat, TheMarker, Lejournaldunet, Presse Citron, MobileInt.Biz, MocoNews/Paid Content, NewzGeek We believe App discovery is still [...]

We receive more and more requests from users that are frustrated not to be able to download or find certain apps they read about or discover in Appsfire in their own local App Store. What happens is that when a developer submits an app to the App Store via iTunes Connect you have to select [...]

note: sorry to our english readers, this one will be in French Nous sommes heureux de pouvoir annoncer la seconde édition d'Appstories en partenariat avec Microsoft mais aussi Techrunch france, iPhon.fr et TechTocTV, notre séminaire sur les secrets des meilleures applications mobiles. La première édition avait été un franc succès et nous avions déjà a [...]

Every week Appsfire collects the best selections of apps from across the web. Here are a few App Mixes from the past week, but be sure to check out the full collection or create your own mix. Go2Web2.0: The Best Free 22 Educational iPad Apps for Kids View the Selection: App MixRead it on: GoToWeb2.0 Biggtech: Top 10 Video Watching Apps [...]

Earlier today TechCrunch featured a report from mobile research firm research2guidance predicting the Android Market would “blow past” the App Store in size in August 2011. Distimo published similar findings only a week ago. You can go on all you want about the Android Market representing quantity over quality, or the fact that it’s all moot until Android starts to [...]