Tag Archives: apps

Thu 11th June 2015
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Mobile Advertising Prospects Take A Hit - Mobile Advertising has been a hot topic for the last couple years, back in April there was an article by Business Insider titled, “Mobile is growing faster than all other ad formats.” From the article: Mobile is growing faster than all other digital advertising formats in the US, as advertisers begin allocating dollars to catch the eyes of a growing class of “mobile-first” users. Historically, there has been a big disparity between the amount of time people actually spend on their smartphones ... read more ...
Fri 20th March 2015
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2 Things that could mistreat domain names - Forget new TLDs vs. old TLDs. The industry needs to focus on outside threats, too. Much of the conversation in the domain name industry over the past year has been about this battle between new TLDs and .com. The debate has been about if .com is king or if new TLDs pose a challenge to them. This internal debate has reduced focus on threats from outside the domain name ecosystem: apps and browsers. Apps are an alternative to websites, especially on mobile phones and tablets. Many in the domain industry ... read more ...
Fri 3rd October 2014
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Fertility App Glow Raises Another $17 million – Should they acquire Glow.com ? - Glow is an app that allows women to track their fertility cycles, they received another $17 million in funding bringing their total up to $23 million. Tech Crunch reported, The company announced in August that it was responsible for getting over 20,000 women pregnant, using the app. It has also added quite a few other apps to the family over the last year with Glow First, Glow for Enterprise and Glow Nurture as well. These are all designed to take women beyond fertility tracking and into health and ... read more ...
Mon 11th August 2014
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More Brands Are Using Anonymous Apps To Market Their Product - Christopher Heine wrote a piece on Ad Week about the increasing ad campaigns on anonymous app platforms. The article looks at some of the big brands that are advertising on Whisper and Secret. As more and more people access at least apart of their daily online experience through mobile, brands are going to want to be on there. All the talk about new gtlds vs .com etc… This is where people should be spending some of their time, following what is going on with mobile and apps. I am not talking about ... read more ...
Tue 29th July 2014
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Captain Kirk is not high on a new Celebrity usually Facebook App - William Shatner of Star Trek and Priceline fame, is a big social media user, Shatner runs a popular blog on Tumblr and is active in a lot of places. He recently put together a review of the new Facebook Mentions app, our readers probably have not been able to use this app because it is reserved for celebrities and other high-profile members. The IB Times did an article about the new app and shows some interaction between a critic of Whoopi Goldberg films and Whoopi herself, it was quite amusing and ... read more ...
Thu 27th March 2014
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King.com opens to Stock Crush Saga – Dropping 16% on First Day of Trading - King.com the maker of Candy Crush Saga could have titled their first day of trading as Stock Crush Saga. The stock had a very poor performance on its first day of trading. Perhaps people were looking at King and thinking it was going to be another Zynga, wildly popular before the IPO but as soon as it went public it could not make any gains in the public market. Zynga had Farmville and King has Candy Crush Saga, King must find more games that can provide a stable stream of income. Of course they ... read more ...
Wed 16th May 2012
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Intuit buys Apps.net for 24,100 EUR among 25 finish user domain sales - Intuit picks up Apps.net domain name and other notable domain purchases. The biggest name on this week’s end user domain sales report is Intuit. The company (of Quicken and Quickbooks fame) bought Apps.net for EUR 21,400 at Sedo. It already owns Apps.com. It offers Intuit Apps for many of its products. Here are other domain name purchases by end users over the past week. Sedo Ad network Multi-View, Inc. made this week’s big $112,000 purchase of AHHA.com. Travel ... read more ...