Ingrid Lunden
Nov 22, 2011 5:54 AM
We’ve observed a lot of western companies looking to cash in on the explosive growth of China’s mobile population by taking their products into the country. Now here’s an example of a Chinese giant looking shop its own mobile services abroad: the internet portal Tencent is now distributing its QQ…
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Ingrid Lunden
Mar 9, 2011 5:31 AM
Turns out it’s not only the native app stores from Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and Android/Google (NSDQ: GOOG) that get a little hot under their collars when they sense competition from those publishing apps in their app markets. Today GetJar announced that it has rejected the Opera Mini browser from its…
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Apps, Mobile, Technologies / Formats, Browsers, Companies, Apple, Google, Android, Countries, Europe, getjar, opera
Ingrid Lunden
Feb 15, 2011 6:19 AM
The strong third player in apps, GetJar, has today announced that it has picked up a massive $25 million round in a third round of funding, in a strong endorsement of the cross-platform app store model that does not come from a single device or OS company like Apple’s App…
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Apps, Mobile, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital, Companies, Apple, Google, Android, RIM, WPP, Yahoo, Zynga, getjar
Joseph Tartakoff
Jun 24, 2010 12:01 AM
Fast-growing mobile app store GetJar, which says it has had more than one billion apps downloaded from its store to date, making it second in size only to Apple’s app store, has raised $11 million in a second round of funding. GetJar’s app store includes about 70,000 apps for all…
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Tricia Duryee
Feb 10, 2010 8:29 PM
Sprint (NYSE: S) is partnering with GetJar, an independent Lithuania-based application store, to offer thousands of free applications on a variety of its handsets. Release. The partnership with Sprint marks GetJar’s highest profile agreement in the the U.S. to date, however, the relatively under-the-radar company has signed up others worldwide…
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Companies, Sony, Sony Ericsson, Sprint, getjar
Tricia Duryee
Feb 4, 2010 3:00 AM
If all this world needs, it is a few more mobile application stores. GetJar is now letting carriers, retailers and other companies, launch a store using its catalog of thousands of applications. One of the first to use the white label service is The Carphone Warehouse, the mobile phone retailer…
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Mobile, Companies, Carphone Warehouse, getjar
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