30 Jul, 2011
GetJar, an independent cross-platform app store, has announced that its surpassed 2B total app downloads, with more than 100 million of which being Facebook installs. In total, GetJar now offers roughly 150,000 apps that work across Android, BlackBerry, Java and Symbian platforms, with support for over 2,500 total devices spanning both smartphones and feature phones [...]
01 Jul, 2011
Using Facebook for Prospecting. read more, click onto the title. This entry was posted on Thursday, June 30th, 2011 at 6:41 pm and is filed under Uncategorized. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own [...]
24 Sep, 2010
SCVNGR today launched a first-of-its-kind Facebook application to allow businesses to highlight their SCVNGR rewards and challenges on their local Place Pages. Acting as a Place Page add-on for businesses using SCVNGR, the new app shows prominently in the left-hand menu section to allow visitors to access three tabbed sections: Rewards, Challenges and How to [...]
25 Aug, 2010
On the heels of announcing a major mobile push with “Places,” Facebook announced today usage numbers for its various mobile apps — namely iOS, Android and Blackberry. A big reason Facebook Places was such a big deal in the LBS world was Facebook’s massive installed mobile user base. To give a glimpse of that user [...]
22 Aug, 2010
For those wondering how Facebook’s recently announced Places functionality would effect other LBS apps, it was announced yesterday that Foursquare saw its most new-user signups ever — just one day after Facebook launched a similar concept. Foursquare co-founder Dennis Crowley tweeted yesterday in reference to the milestone saying; “Just heard from @HarryH that today was [...]
11 Aug, 2010
It’s long been speculated, but it looks as though Facebook is closer than ever to launching its much-anticipated check-in solution to take on the LBS market. With an estimated 500M mobile-toting users worldwide, LBS startups should start to worry — or should they? Though it’s mere speculation at this point, it’s been reported that Facebook [...]