An app discovery platform, Hooked, has been trying to do that in the chaotic marketplace of Android app stores.
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After all these years, app discovery still remains a conundrum that has puzzled many marketers. 2012 might very well provide the answer.
The Arena app serves as a central location for consumers to access all Green Throttle supported games, control settings to pair their Atlas controller(s), and helps developers with app discovery by making their games noticeable and easy to find.
And tonight the TV-discovery app Peel will offer something a little different to Samsung Galaxy Tab users.
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Available today, the new Vimeo Apple iOS app delivers a discovery-focused experience.
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The restaurant and dish discovery app space is getting crowded.
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Lafferty, who wrote about this week's Bloomberg report, said Facebook could launch a social discovery app separate from its main mobile app -- at least at first.
Highlight, a location-based people discovery app that made a splash at last year's SxSW Interactive in Austin, TX, just released a big 1.5 update that adds photo-sharing and event-creation to its set of features.
Tapjoy: App monetization and discovery platform.
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Like the app environment, social discovery tends to bring users face-to-face with higher-quality content.
Mr. Cornell and his firm maintain Jotly as a side project alongside their main product, Nosh, a "meal discovery" app that lets people rate individual restaurant dishes.
To demonstrate the potential of the updated APIs, Deezer is to launch Askking Music, an app which combines gaming with music discovery.
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On an ecosystem level, some app developers have complained about how the changes in the iOS 6 App Store have negatively affected the discovery of their products.
"Discovery is crappy on the App Store, " says Michael Powers, chief executive of MPlayit.
It's very obvious that TiVo was trying to build on its Discovery Bar in its iPad app and for the most part it's a success.
TiVo, the company that made its fortune by making you forget about live television, is now attempting to revamp the traditional TV guide with a new content-discovery feature for its iPad app.
Search engines and App Stores are taking the center stage for discovery and distribution of business software.
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Privacy concerns over the issue were touched off last week when a Web developer blogged about his discovery that Path, an emerging social app that limits users to 50 friends, was uploading his iPhone address book to its servers.
The company was purchased by the Discovery Channel in May and has a hit Kindle Fire app.
We built this app from the ground up optimizing for speed, reliability and an effortless discovery experience for our members.
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In the Discovery stage, you answer important questions about what you want your mobile app to do.
Available initially for iPad, the Nick App features a moveable tile layout that can be swiped in any direction, promoting discovery and exploration and offering kids instant and on-demand access to more than 1, 000 pieces of Nickelodeon-themed content.
Easy to Use Interface: Offering intuitive digital reading and content discovery, NOOK for Windows 8 is NOOK's first free Reading app to be designed with a "paper" interface created to minimize distractions and encourage deep content interaction and enjoyment.
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Although Pandora has had some troubles, a music discovery service from Apple might make sense as well (we think the Pandora App for iOS is quite pleasant).
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Consumers today are using different apps and web services for discovery, social engagement and interactivity. zeebox brings all these features together in a single app that drives increased viewership of programming by making the live TV experience even more compelling.
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