Mike Mccue of Flipboard
Dennis Crowley of FourSquare
Andy Rubin of Google
Daniel Ek of Spotify
December 21, 2010
December 17, 2010
December 13, 2010
Mobile App Market - $35B by 2014
via znet:
International Data Corp. projects that the number of mobile apps downloaded worldwide will grow from 10.9 billion in 2010 to 76.9 billion in 2014. That growth will equate to $35 billion in revenue in 2014.
In its forecast, IDC said that mobile apps are moving from phones to tablets to TVs and other devices in the home.
IDC said there will be an increasing move toward appification as software interacts better with users. In other words, mobile apps will extend into every aspect of our personal and business lives, argues IDC.
December 10, 2010
December 8, 2010
Salesforce.com buys Heroku for $212M
(via Techcrunch)
Salesforce.com has just announced that it is acquiring Heroku, which provides a Ruby application platform-as-a-service, for approximately $212 million in cash.
That’s one hell of an exit for the startup, which was founded in 2007 and has raised only $13 million in funding.
Heroku was initially provided with seed funding through Y Combinator back in 2008.
The startup says it currently powers over 105,000 social and mobile cloud applications.
According to the company, the Ruby development community is over 1 million members strong and growing fast, with Internet companies as big as Twitter, Groupon and Hulu using the development language to power its applications.
Salesforce.com says the acquisition of Heroku is a way for them to continue providing support for the next generation of (Java and Ruby) app developers.