PointAbout’s AppMakr, a free, user-friendly, browser-based platform used for the creation of native iPhone applications, was featured in the award-winning Meetings and Conventions online magazine (M&C Online). M&C Online and print magazine is designed to help meeting and event planners excel at their jobs, offering in-depth features, news analysis, original research, destination insights, article archives, a facility search engine, and more.

There’s generally two main profit drivers that lead people into the adventure the development of a mobile apps entails. You either create an app with a great deal of utility that people would be lost without and you sell it for a “premium” fee in various app stores, making your profits from the fruits of your better-than-the-competition innovation. The other way is, of course, to make your app FREE, give it away to the largest… Read more »

(via wired.com) The once upon a time sought after desktop PCs are being left in the dust for the slew of tablet PCs emerging, including those rivaling the infamous Apple iPad. A recent report published by the Forrester research firm revealed that 27 million U.S. online consumers (14%) anticipate purchasing a tablet in the next 12 months. Although the iPad has sold close to 3.3 million units to date, potential customers are not necessarily chasing… Read more »

DC-Based PointAbout Featured in FastCompany; Raising Funding Round Washington, DC — PointAbout, the DC-based creator of a platform allowing clients to develop their own low-cost mobile apps, said that it is in the process of raising a new round of funding from Charles River Ventures and angel investors Bill Lee and Rich Chen. The news comes amidst a period of rapid growth for the company, which recently opened a West Coast office in San Francisco,… Read more »