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Circuit Playground App Helps Makers Build Electronics
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If you don’t know a resistor from a Mister Mister, this is the app for you. Built by Adafruit, creators of DIY Arduino gear, Circuit Playground is a $2.99 app designed to help you identify and understand various electronic components. For example, the app includes a resistor identification system based...
ASO (App Store Optimization) Is The New SEO, And Here’s A Tool To Do It
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What’s the hardest thing about building a successful mobile app? If you answered “building a mobile app,” you’re wrong. It’s getting your app found. With over 600,000+ iOS applications, and now some 450,000 on Android, the real challenge for developers is having their app surfaced higher than hundreds of other competitors in...
Report: iPhone Maps app to feature Yelp check-ins
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Apple will integrate Yelp check-ins into its upcoming iPhone Maps application. According to Bloomberg, the Apple developer kit, which the Cupertino, Calif.-based Company distributed to software developers earlier this month, revealed that Apple Maps will allow iPhone users to alert friends of their location through social network Yelp without leaving maps...
Steam store search shows categories for non-gaming apps
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The Steam app for Android shows a number of new categories that have little to do with gaming, which could be a shred of evidence that Valve is considering different kinds of apps for its popular game distribution service. The "Genre" section of the app's index lists genres like...
According to iTunes, "jailbreak" is a four-letter word
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Enlarge Someone at Apple appears to have decided that the word "jailbreak" is a dirty word. The term is now being filtered in iTunes Store search results, as originally reported by Shoutpedia. Apple often filters many of the most common swear words (but curiously, not "bitch"). When returning search...
Apple Acquires Chomp; App Store Search And Discovery To Be Completely Revamped
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With the countdown underway to 25 billion total app downloads, there’s no disputing the success of Apple’s App Store. We live in a world of hyperbole, but Apple’s entry into this space really has changed the entire mobile world. But the App Store is far from perfect. And with its...
Apple changes App Store search without warning, costs developers sales
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Apple recently made some changes to the search algorithm used by its iOS App Store, and the move may end up having a serious impact on app sales for some developers. 30 South developer Derek Clark wrote a post on his personal blog this past Sunday after Apple quietly made a...
Apple Changes Ranking Algorithm For App Store Searches?
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TechCrunch reports Apple seems to have changed how they rank apps within the App Store search results. Prior, having the keyword in your app’s name would tend to work well in terms of ranking the app in the app store. Now, according to several app developers, Apple is also ranking...
More Evidence Shows Apple Store Search Changes (Including Some Sad Developers)
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We now have more information about the changes to Apple’s App Store search algorithm, thanks to a blog post from Ian Sefferman at MobileDevHQ. TechCrunch broke the news about the change on Saturday, but our story was based on the impressions of individual app developers and some searches of our...
Apple acquires Chomp to make its App Store search and discovery actually useful
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Apple has acquired the app search and discovery platform Chomp in order to rebuild the way that apps are searched for and discovered on the App Store, reports MG Siegler of Techcrunch. The acquisition should help to rectify issues that many have finding new apps on the App Store that...
Apple Acquires Chomp to Recreate App Store Search and Discovery
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Apple is acquiring three-year old startup Chomp and plans to use the company's technology and expertise to improve the App Store's search and app discovery technology, according to a report from TechCrunch. We first covered Chomp in November 2009 to announce their seed funding. Since then, they’ve grown their scope...
PSA: Verizon Galaxy Nexus owners now have direct access to Google Wallet
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Nobody puts Google Wallet in the corner for long, not even Big Red. Though the carrier courted controversy late last year by withholding support for the burgeoning NFC-based platform amidst security concerns, it appears to have finally changed tack. Owners of that LTE Galaxy Nexus variant are now reporting...
Apple aquires Chomp to help with that iTunes revamp
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. Remember that iTunes/App Store overhaul we talked about just a few days ago? The new design is said to be even simpler and more user-friendly than the current design. Apple is working on ways to enhance the speed and efficiency of finding new content, such as songs, videos, and...
Apple’s iOS and Mac App Stores Now Feature “Free App Of The Week” And “Editor’s Choice” Promotions
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In an apparent effort to help its users find more interesting apps in its cavernous digital stores, Apple today made an interesting tweak to its iOS and Mac app stores. Both now feature a “free app of the week” and an “editor’s choice” section. As Apple’s official App Store Twitter...
There’s an app for deals: Iddiction launches App-o-Day, dubs it the “Groupon for Apps”
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We all know it’s hard to find great iOS apps beyond your usual suspects as the App Store grows and grows and grows. It’s a problem many startups are trying to solve, and Apple has acknowledged the issue as well, in a big way, by acquiring Chomp precisely to make...
Apple Chomps At App Store Search? Developers See Shift In Search Results
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Apple is making potentially significant changes to the search algorithm in the App Store, at least according to some app developers. If you’re a developer or publisher counting on a well-chosen name to help with visibility, things could get tougher from here on out. But if you’re a popular and...
Apple chomps Chomp to improve App Store search
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If we were Tim Cook, we wouldn't be able to resist the temptation of wasting some of that $100 billion on something extravagant, like a crystal iPhone dock or private theme park. Instead the boys in Cupertino remain dogged in quietly acquiring start-ups and hoping no-one notices. Chomp is...
Developers reporting changes to Apple's App Store search algorithm
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Developers with apps published to Apple's iOS App Store are reporting that search results have changed drastically and may be a result of a change in the weighting of the number of downloads and "topic detection."...
These tools will help you optimize your app's monetization
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How can you monetize your app? If you are a technical person, chances are you find this much more difficult than developing the app itself. This is why we decided to work on a list of tools that will help you increase the revenues you make from your app. To...
How To Make Your App Stand Out In An Overcrowded Marketplace
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The iTunes App Store created a fantastic channel for app developers to distribute and sell their apps, but with over a million iPhone, Android and iPad apps on the market and thousands coming onto the market every day, being in the app store alone is no longer a good enough...
Is Apple already juicing its App Store search results with Chomp acquisition?
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It’s no secret that Apple’s search results within its App Store on both the iOS and Mac don’t always turn up the best results. In return, many hoped that with Apple’s recent acquisition of app search engine Chomp, revealed in February, it would start leading to better results. That time...
Apple tweaks iOS App Store search algorithm again with return to keywords, names
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New Apple app discovery tools welcome, but aren’t enough
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The Verge has picked up on some small but potentially significant tweaks to the iOS and Mac app stores: a new Editor’s Choice feature and the first App of the Week to be completely discounted to free. Editor’s Choice is exactly what it sounds like, a pick of the best apps...
Apple buys startup Chomp to improve iOS app discovery
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Rumoured $50m acquisition will build on existing Genius featureApple has acquired US apps discovery startup Chomp for a rumoured $50m (£32m), as it looks to make it easier for iOS users to find the best iPhone and iPad apps.The news was broken by TechCrunch, which claims that "Apple has bought...
Chomp app-discovery app for Android has seen its last days thanks to Apple
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The Android version of app discovery app (yes, that's a thing) Chomp is no longer, leaving only the iOS versions until Apple integrates Chomp's technology into its own App Store. GigaOm noticed the change on Friday morning, two months after Apple's acquisition of the company. Chomp's website once offered three...
TNW’s Daily Dose – 24 hours of tech news in 5 minutes [Audio]
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Apple acquires Chomp to improve app discovery, Google sells its stake in 4G firm Clearwire, and MATTER clearly matters as it raises money on Kickstarter to support long-form journalism. It’s all in today’s Daily Dose. You can catch The Daily Dose every Monday through Friday right here on The Next...
App Store search algorithm altered three times in a week
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Apple appears to have made three changes in a week to its App Store search algorithms which are used to fine-tune search results. A change made earlier this week scores apps higher by user ratings and app descriptions, rather than by application name (as was the case before the changes)....
Apple Gobbles Chomp
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In an effort to revamp the way consumers navigate its massively successful but increasingly confusing and overpopulated App Store, Apple has acquired Chomp, "the search engine that finds the apps you want." MG Siegler, writing for Techcrunch, reports Apple has fully committed to Chomp, and with good reason: This...
A big win for app search startup Chomp as it heads to Apple
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In what could pave the way to a better app discovery experience in the iTunes store, Apple acquired app search startup Chomp for a reported $50 million. It’s a big win for Chomp’s team, as the company had raised just $2.5 million from BlueRun Ventures, Ron Conway and other angels....
The Morning Lowdown 2-24-12
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Some of the stories people are talking about this morning: » Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) acquires Chomp; App Store search and discovery to be completely revamped (TechCrunch) » Thanks to consumerization, it’s IPO season in analytics (GigaOM) » Hunger Games eclipsing Twilight saga in online advance ticket sales (Deadline Hollywood)...
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