As Path launches its new API, CEO and cofounder Dave Morin explains why the company is eschewing advertising in favor of virtual goods.
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There are more opportunities than ever to build an app that people will pay for -- if you know where to look.
Read More »Microsoft Woos Developers To The (Upcoming) Windows Store
To succeed, Microsoft's new app store will need developers to build apps. Microsoft execs tossed out their best pitch yesterday.
Read More »Optimizing Facebook Ads
When Facebook launched its API in 2007, allowing developers to build games and applications for the social medium, Kristaps Ronka and Hussein Fazal "just started building things for fun." For instance, they built a treasure hunter app and an app to share documents with friends. At the time, Fazal was a software developer for Bell Canada and Ronka was an intern. "We started talking about how to make money off the applications," says Fazal.
Read More »How Apple’s Lion Mauls Competitors And Feasts On Their Ideas For iOS [Video]
Today, Steve Jobs unveiled tons of new features-- Twitter integration, iOS 5, iCloud --but what many Apple fanboys are talking about instead are the number of apps that Apple appears to be co-opting.
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Read More »iFive: Kodak’s $1B IP Row, Google Keeps DUI Apps, Google Music Streaming Due Soon, Color App’s Big Update, Oracle’s Big Profits
1. Kodak may (or may not) be a fading name associated with photography, but no matter how much its core business is slipping away, it's not dead yet--and if a dispute over patents with Apple and RIM concerning mobile digital photography is anything to go by, it'll be around for a while. That's because the royalties Kodak may be due could total over $1 billion
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