Sprint + GetJar = Awesome. Mobile operator teams with indie store for 60,000 applications

American mobile operator Sprint has just announced a major deal with mobile application store GetJar. GetJar is the largest independent application store in the world - and counting everybody else, only the Apple Store is bigger than it. Sprint will now be offering the entire selection of 60,000 apps from GetJar to its mobile customers. Why is this such a good idea? Read on…

Want to launch your own mobile app store? Go talk to GetJar

GetJar is an independent mobile application store - unlike the Apple Store or the Android Market, it doesn’t have manufacturer backing as a safety net. But it also isn’t tied down to one device, and GetJar offers free applications to download for pretty much every smartphone platform available. GetJar also claims to be the 2nd largest application store in the world behind the Apple Store (a title that Nokia somewhat amusingly attempted to yoink in December). And today GetJar is announcing the launch of a new service that could be very interesting. App Catalogue Express is a white label mobile app catalog that allows other mobile entities to instantly launch their own app store based on the GetJar catalogue.

Most popular mobile application downloads from GetJar include social networks, games and Google

Seems to be the time of year when analytics and metrics results are becoming available from different mobile sources. Earlier today GoMo News published the most popular search results from mobile voice enabler Vlingo. And now it’s time for some mobile applications, from successful independent app store Getjar.

GetJar slams Nokia claim to be 2nd largest after iPhone app store

You always have to keep an eye out for those independents. One of the longest standing application stores in existence, GetJar, is stepping up to Nokia as the Finnish giant claims it has the second largest app store after iTunes. But GetJar claims that Ovi comes third.

GetJar wins Best Mobile Service award

Rating: GetJar is second largest app store next to Apple
GetJar has been named as the winner of the Mobile Excellence Award for Best Mobile Service. Previously GetJar was the recipient of the 2009 Meffy Award for Best Direct to Customer Service.
GetJar was selected for its premium advertising system - Pay-Per-Download (PPD) which allows developers [...]

Microsoft’s app store, Marketplace, still thin on apps

Rating: Apple won’t be quaking in its boots
It’s been almost two months since Microsoft effectively introduced its ‘Marketplace’ mobile apps store with the launch of Windows Mobile 6.5 (Windows Phone). A quick trawl through the store shows it’s still got less than 400 apps. So it doesn’t pose much of a threat to Apple, then.
The [...]

GetJar’s CEO Ilja Laurs’ musings on what 2010 will bring

Rating: The thoughts of Chairman Laurs on mobile apps
GetJar CEO Ilja Laurs has shared his thoughts with us on how 2010 will shape up. Social, dating and casual gaming apps will surge in popularity, for example. Most apps stores will fail. The mobile web will eclipse the fixed Net by 2020. And other such predictions [...]

GoMo 1-to-1 at CTIA: GetJar talks mobile apps and update

I sat down with Patrick Mork, VP Marketing for GetJar. GetJar is the largest independent application store in the world, serving all mobile platforms. Patrick talks about the most popular OS, improved search, the new Application Download Page from GetJar, and the up-coming introduction of paid apps to the GetJar store.

GetJar claims mobile apps reach larger audience thanks to viral spread

GetJar, the world’s largest independent app store, today reveals that 65% of consumers downloading applications from its site belong to the prized 18-34 year old male demographic and that one-in-three GetJar users are downloading mobile apps every day. GetJar commissioned a poll of 13,518 GetJar users worldwide in August 2009 to gauge the impact of mobile applications globally as part of an advertising or marketing campaign.

Opera Mini mobile browser has become the most downloaded app from GetJar

Mobile browsers have a habit of announcing all of the “important” milestones they pass. But Opera Mini has some news I found genuinely interesting this morning - it has now been downloaded over 25 million times from the GetJar independent app store. That not only makes it the most downloaded GetJar app, but the most downloaded app from any open app store.

Independent app store GetJar hits 500,000,000 mobile application downloads

GetJar announced it has passed the half a billion downloads mark today. As the world’s largest independent app store, this can be seen as good news for mobile applications. There are about 50,000 apps on the service now, all available completely free.

Another mobile application tops 10 million downloads over GetJar

It seems that announcing when you’ve hit 10 million on GetJar is “the thing” to do. Well ok, I would too. It’s pretty impressive. The latest to announce this accomplishment is mobile IM and chat client mig33. A large part of this success can be attributed to Pay Per Download - a GetJar program that allows developers to bid for better placement on the GetJar site.

Virgin Mobile France partners with independent mobile app store GetJar

Virgin Mobile France has announced a huge partnership with mobile application store GetJar. The platform, device and OS agnostic app store will selling its entire selection of free mobile apps through the French operators soon-to-launch app store.

The Virgin Mobile France app store should be launched by Wednesday of this week - the 17th of June. [...]

GoMo Buzzwatch: Sony Ericsson plays the game right with GetJar and PlayNow app store

Sony Ericsson has announced that it will be selling mobile applications through PlayNow Arena, its mobile content platform. I usually wince every time a new app store gets jammed onto the market, but Sony has done something interesting: it has basically outsourced its entire app outfit to independent company GetJar.

GetJar is independent of platform, operator, [...]

Don’t forget the indies - another mobile application reaches 10 million downloads on GetJar

GetJar today announced that mobile messaging service eBuddy has been downloaded 10 million times from the GetJar site. The app downloading service, which allows consumers to download to any device, claims to see more than 22 million downloads per month across 20,000 apps.
eBuddy Mobile Messenger, a social networking application that works through IM, made use [...]

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