Amazon’s Appstore saw a fourteen-fold increase in app downloads in December 2011 when compared to two months earlier, driven by the launch of the Kindle Fire and the Christmas holiday sales period, according to figures from Distimo. This growth is providing developers with an alternative to Google’s own Android Market to reach consumers, the company said in an analysis of both stores’ performance in the US market. Read more...
IGN reports that games giant EA pulled its Battlefield 3: Aftershock app from the iOS App Store, after it was the subject of a raft of complaints. Read more...
PaymentOne announced its support for HTML5 through immediate availability of its PayOne HTML5 API, which it said offers “an HTML5-compliant web-based payment flow for developers of mobile games and applications looking to monetise their offerings across all platforms and devices with a highly secure and frictionless “charge it to my mobile phone bill” payment method.” Read more...
Enterprise mobility vendor Antenna Software has launched a cloud-based mobile business suite, which enables companies to design, build, deploy and manage native and web-based apps Read more...
Online special offers company Groupon has acquired Kima Labs, maker of the Barcode Hero barcode reading app and TapBuy mobile payment app Read more...
Mobile apps are the fastest growing content area for Barnes & Noble, the book retailer-turned hardware vendor that recently launched the Android-based Nook Tablet Read more...
UK operator Everything Everywhere will seek a bond issue to raise funds for the auction of 4G spectrum due to take place towards the end of 2012 Read more...
Japanese operator SoftBank is set to launch its 4G services this week, offering subscribers download speeds of up to 76Mbps, IDG News reports. Read more...