App Store

The app tracking service AppsFire, was the first one to post a perspective look back at the world's biggest mobile marketplace, the App Store. 2012 was a very busy year (for Apple) with the App Store surpassing the 1 million app submission milestone, the launch of three new iPads (iPad 3, iPad 4 and iPad...

Google has released a new app called YouTube Capture to allow users to quickly record videos, edit them and upload to YouTube. Videos can be quickly shared to YouTube, Twitter, Facebook or Google+. I can see YouTube celebrities taking full advantage of this app for their vlogs: Film and share videos with YouTube Capture: Easy,...

Google has announced its recently released Google Maps for iOS has been downloaded over 10 million times in less than two days, as noted by Google's Senior VP of Geo and Commerce, Jeff Huber on his Google+ account: More than 10 million downloads in less than 48 hours after release! We're excited for the positive reception...

Tap tap tap has released an update to Camera+ which brings better image quality settings when saving pictures: For Camera+ 3.7 (1.2 for iPad), we’ve added a new Quality setting. For those of you who want your photos to be of the highest quality, we’ve introduced a third setting, named “High”. (The setting formerly named...

This summer Halfbrick Studios, the makers of popular iOS game Fruit Ninja, celebrated their two year anniversary by giving away free copies. Now, to end 2012 with a bang, the Australian-based developer is giving away Fruit Ninja along with every single game they have ever made, for 24 hours only (6:00am GMT on Monday December...

Apple's free App of the Week released on Thursday was Toca Band. This app is geared for children aged 2-9 to to explore music with their parents. The app lets your kid try out 16 characters that play their own instruments within the app, which also includes 48 fun sound loops. There is no right...

Here's some Saturday afternoon reading, courtesy of the New York Times on their piece about how Instagram has resulted in some smart entrepreneurs: These entrepreneurs have realized that they can piggyback on the popularity of Instagram, which has more than 100 million users, and create their own businesses, some of which have turned out to...

Google Maps for iOS was released a couple days ago and shortly after its release it vaulted into the number one spot under top free apps. Three Google apps are in the top 10 now: Google Maps, YouTube and Google Earth: Google is pushing its iOS maps app release hard. Even Google Maps on the...

Dropbox has announced the release of version 2.0 of its iOS app, which has received an all-new design (and new icon): We’ve packed a ton of love and tiny details into our new iOS design, and we think you’ll dig its simplicity. For example, we got rid of the text labels on our tabs in...

Yesterday Facebook released another update to its iOS app, which aims to improve the speed at which your timeline and news feeds load. Also added is the ability to upload photos to albums of your choosing. What's New in Version 5.3 Post your photos to albums and enjoy a speedier app. • You can now...

Rovio has announced a massive sale for their HD titles on iOS, which means you can get iPad versions for a super deal this weekend: The year 2012 has been absolutely amazing for Rovio, and as a 'Thank You' to our fans we're offering all Rovio HD titles for Android and iOS at a special sale...

Apple has made some changes to the App Store this afternoon to introduce 'iTunes Gifts, which allows users to send iTunes Cards in various pre-set denominations of $20, $30, $50 or custom amounts to friends and family. Gift cards are regional, so if you're sending a gift from a Canadian iTunes account, the recipient can...