By Emily Price

Apple’s App Store recently hit its 50 billionth download. Since its launch in July 2008, the store has been the go-to place for mobile apps. To this day, mobile developers often choose to release their apps here first. Popular from the start, just seven months after the App Store’s launch, the store surpassed one million third party apps, many of those free.

By Rick Wyder.

With millions of apps in the major app stores – the iTunes App Store, Google Play, and more – getting visibility for your app isn’t easy. But often, promotional strategies are treated as an afterthought – or not treated strategically at all.

By Matthew Panzarino.

Late last year, Arnold Kim got a surprise notice from Apple. His super-popular app comparison shopping tool AppShopper was to be removed from the App Store for violation of a 3-month-old rule

By Greg Satell.

Life for marketers used to be simpler. We had just a few TV channels, some radio stations, a handful of top magazines and a newspaper or two in each market.

By ashish, sourced from Dailytechposts.com

mobile devices are as relied upon and heavily used as Apple’s wildly popular iPhone, thanks largely to their marketing departments and the power of the App Store.

By Brittany Darwell.

Facebook will now let advertisers customize the headlines of their ads within the sidebar. This will be available via the API, Power Editor and self-serve ad tool.

By Mg Siegler.

Well, The Daily failed. It wasn’t all that fun while it lasted. And it didn’t last all that long. If everyone had known that it was going to cost $25 million a year to run, it probably would have been easy to predict its eventual failure.

Sourced from www.blog.maxrudberg.com

Clear, Rise and Solar are three examples of a trend of “gesture driven” apps with a flat UI.

By Erica Ogg.

Before he was 25, he’d invented what is now one of the most ubiquitous iOS app features around. At 28, Loren Brichter is continuing to push the boundaries of what an app can do. We sat down and talked about his future and that of iOS.

By Christine Chan.

Today Weather ($1.99) by savvy apps, llc is a beautiful new way to view weather from all around the world, at once. Yes, we’ve had plenty of weather apps covered before, with my previous favorite being Solar, but that doesn’t mean that there isn’t room for one more, especially if it’s done right. Say hello to Today Weather.