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Bringing you Breaking app news, with the App Pulse.

We are introducing a new update to Appsfire today with the App Pulse, a unique (and exquisite) source for the hottest and breaking news from the App Store as they happen. Check out the left panel, a new tab called the App Pulse just appeared! Open it, and you will be the first to know [...]

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Snapchat, you may raise a massive round, but you have a massive bug

Snapchat is supposed to raise a massive round of cash to start selling…mmm…something In the meantime users are massively unhappy and their latest update is causing lots of crashes and disfunction’s in the app. Up until now, the App had a good quality score (we call it App score). Well above 70.. But the latest [...]

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UDID is dead, OpenUDID is deprecated, long live advertisingIdentifier!

[note: this is technical post for iOS developers, publishers and ad networks] Do you remember all the fuss about UDID? Yup, the dust has settled on this one, like most things. But today is the right day to revive the topic! UDID tracking posed a number of ethical and user privacy concerns a few years [...]

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How to save thousands of dollars on high-quality app translation: Crowdsource it

We love getting feedback from our users. It helps us make them happy, and that makes us happy. Feedback and user engagement is also at the heart of our App Booster SDK for developers, to empower other developers to communicate directly with their users. As a business, we also love saving money. Over the years [...]

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Going premium

We’re introducing today a new version of Appsfire. Well.. not literally. We’re adding some optional Premium features in the form of In-App Purchase - the core of Appsfire remains exactly the same. After months of feedback and feature requests from our users since the launch of our 4.0, we’re giving our most dedicated users a few extra [...]

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Beyond the Hype: App Discovery and App promotion need better quality standards

This blog post was originally published on TheNextWeb All eyes on App discovery: suddenly, because of what happened to a single app promotion company (ref. appgratis), the background noise indicates that everyone is now concerned about the entire field of app discovery: what it means and how it should work. It is surprising that this [...]

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Trouble in app discovery land? What about Appsfire?

With all the commotion and confusion (cf. the appgratis case, Appshopper last year), we wanted to reiterate and clarify how Appsfire works. Some have raised legitimate questions about us and our future, while others will also start imagining things. First and foremost, let’s review what Appsfire is all about: The Appsfire app is a non-paid [...]

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Deals and Fake Deals

Real life scenario You receive a flyer at home with a special discount on Jack Daniels at your favorite store. 50% off today. You arrive at the store. You look at the shelf price of your upcoming alcoholic beverage. It displays the 50% off sticker. Cool!     Hmm…Wait. You’re looking closer and the actual [...]

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Introducing “App for Cash”, a new standard of App Discovery

“Freemium is not what it used to be” “How can i pay my Palo Alto rent, only with a Free app” “It’s just too hard to make money today” “App Discovery just sucks. Appsfire, Please do something!..” Those are some private quotes we’ve been collecting from App Developers for the past 3 years. Developers need [...]

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One of the things we are proud of…

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