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A bunch of new apps were submitted to Appscovery in the last 7 days, and as usual we share few that (we think) deserve your attention. In no particular order, they are: Radius Interactive Releases PhysiPal Health & Fitness App MyFreezer Rocket Downloader – Grabs more than just your attention New Strategy Game Tom’s Travels…
The sequel to one of the most popular games of all time for iOS and Android, Temple Run, is already receiving massive success after debuting in the iOS App Store just a few days ago. Temple Run 2 passed 20 million downloads in four days of availability. It brought in six million of those downloads…
Path, a social mobile application that helps users connect with their friends, says it plans to shift more toward a “freemium” business model and expand its paid-for offerings in 2013. Path CEO Dave Morin told TechCrunch that the company is looking to mimic a similar formula seen by businesses such as Spotify, Evernote and Dropbox,…
Opera Software will unveil a new browser during Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The company which makes the world’s most popular mobile web browser, Opera Mini, will launch a WebKit-based product with revamped UI that is described as cleaner and easier to use, relying heavily on gestures and big, easy-to-grasp icons. The forthcoming Opera Ice…
Instagram released some interesting statistics about its users and how they use the app. The photo-sharing app now has 90 million monthly active users — a pretty impressive feat for a mere app, and one that blossomed and thrived for quite some time without compatibility with Android. Those 90 million people are sharing 40 million photos…
Nokia is getting another exclusive perk to its Lumia Windows Phone 8 handsets. The finnish-based manufacturer just released an Xbox game called Blobster for all its users on both Windows Phone 8 and Windows Phone 7.x devices. Here are the features included in the game: Levels like you’ve never seen before! Amazing level design will have players…
The famous maker of Angry Birds exceeded one billion downloads during 2012, with 263 million monthly active users reported playing their games in December. According to Rovio, there were 30 million downloads in Christmas week, 8 million of which downloaded games on Christmas Day alone. Moreover, during the month of December, monthly active user figure…
UK’s BT (as in British Telecom) is launching an innovative offering in the form of a VoIP app for smartphones that allows users to use their landline minutes to make cheap calls while on the go. Available for iOS and Android, the SmartTalk application “works best” over Wi-Fi networks but it will sing along over…
If you’ve ever downloaded a file or document from the internet, there’s a very good chance you might have come across MediaFire. It’s long been a favorite of desktop users and has now made the jump into the mobile space with applications for iOS and starting today, Android. The initial release of the MediaFire application basically…
In one of its latest reports, Strategy Analytics is looking at the mobile business app market, suggesting it “went mobile in a big way in 2012.” In fact, the research company says that revenues from mobile business apps reached $25 billion last year, and that in 2013 more than 200 million workers will be using…