We are gearing towards this year’s edition of the Barcelona Mobile World Congress. The show, which is attended by over 60,000 visitors, is taking place from February 27 to March 1st 2012. Since our launch in May 2009, we have been participating in every MWC. Looking at the heating up of pre-MWC announcements and party lists, we [...]
The GSMA today announced nominees for the 17th annual Global Mobile Awards. The winners will be presented on Tuesday, 28th February at the GSMA Mobile World Congress. In total, 158 nominees have been shortlisted for this year’s Global Mobile Awards; the full list of nominees and awards categories can be found here. Market data for the [...]
This morning, the Korean government lifted the ban on iPhone games. For a long time, no game category existed in the Korean Apple App Store due to concerns from the country’s Game Rating Board. The Game Rating Board desired to rate every game in the Apple App Store because it raised concerns about the possible [...]
The partnership between Vodafone and Appia resulted this week in the establishment of a new application store in India, Egypt and South Africa. The new store names Vodafone Mobile Application Store and serves over 145 million subscribers. More than 10,000 free and paid applications will be included in this store for major mobile operating systems such as [...]
Since its launch in 2008, Vodafone Mobile Clicks invites each year mobile internet start-ups to participate in their competition and supports the most innovative solutions with cash. This year the competition was open to seven markets: Germany, the Netherlands, Portugal, the Republic of Ireland, Spain, Turkey and the United Kingdom. Basically any start-up having a mobile site, [...]
Mobile Monday in Athens will take place for the first time on the 3rd of October. MobileMonday – MoMo for short – is an open community platform for the mobile industry, where visionaries, ideas and mobile innovation meet. Distimo will be present, with Hendrik Koekkoek giving a speech on the topic Analyzing the Application Stores – [...]
As our analysts have shown, in-app purchases are taking over in terms of generating revenue. This prompts all participants of the mobile market to reconsider the opportunities of selling content within applications. Telefónica, one of the largest wireless carriers has realized the importance of in-app payments, and thus contribute to the process by enabling a [...]
Skype has recently introduced a new app directory for third-party apps built on Skype’s API. Currently there are 23 apps available, but many more are to come. The directory provides an overview of the top downloaded free and paid apps, top rated apps and the newest apps. The available apps are listed in categories according [...]
Appsterdam is a very active community of developers which was kicked off over the last months by Mike Lee. It hosts a large selection of developer events and a weekly lunch lecture. This week Gert Jan Spriensma will be joining the Wednesday Lunchtime Lectures to talk about four major market shifts and what this means [...]
Your application name should be unique as search engines, both in store as on the web, are an important traffic driver. Or you take the opposite approach and take advantage of popular (high traffic) keywords in the app stores. Therefore, here at Distimo, we dove into the data in order to give more insight into [...]
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