Foursquare has just launched a really cool new feature called Foursquare Explore that allows users to discover great new venues and things going on in their city without having to sign-up or sign-in. It’s a great idea that more apps should leverage. While it’s important for a company to sign-up users, there comes a point when forcing someone to sign-up becomes a barrier to entry to the service. Now you can get value out of the app without having to jump through the sign-in hoop.
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Jingu Friends has been around on BlackBerry for a long time now and the company managed pretty quickly to reach 1 million downloads and 157,000 daily active users. In about a month or so, the app will be launching for iOS and to get some hype around the products, Jingu is giving away 15 free licenses for Jingu Text Premium.
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Today RIM announced that their app storefront BlackBerry App World has served up more than 3 billion apps to BlackBerry users worldwide. Going live April 1st 2009 BlackBerry App World has grown it’s app library and feature set and boasts the highest revenue per app out of all of the smartphone app stores. Continue reading ‘BlackBerry App World Milestone: 3 Billion Apps Served’
Untether Talks is fast approaching. On Tuesday, June 26th, and Wednesday, June 27th, Untether Talks will be hosting a conference that aims to be the Ted Talks of the mobile industry. There’s almost 30 speakers so expect to get 2 full days of great content and learn a lot about what’s going on in mobile tech. The conference organizers were kind enough to give 2 BlackBerryCool readers the chance to attend the conference for free. All you have to do is tweet!
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CupidRadar has recently launched their BlackBerry app that uses your phones’ location data to find you matches nearby. The dating service boasts a very healthy, nearly 50% women userbase that seems to be a bit rare among their mobile online dating competitors.
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Motek Mobile is a cool app company that has been making great apps for BlackBerry for a long time now. The company has 6.5M daily active users and recently, we heard the President of the company say that Screen Muncher once did 409,000 downloads in a single day. That’s a pretty incredible number by any standard and it definitely smashes the myth that BlackBerry apps can’t get huge download numbers. There are 77 million BlackBerry subscribers after all.
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