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Fast Company: PointAbout A Major Mobile Player

Fast Company recently named PointAbout one of the premier application development companies in the country. Major brands like the Washington Post, Disney, Newsweek, Kohl’s, and Cars.com have turned to PointAbout’s custom development arm to propel their mobile initiatives. A number of other high-profile clients, like the PGA Tour’s Greenbrier Classic, the Harvard Business Review, and PBS NewsHour have utilized PointAbout’s DIY app creation tool, AppMakr, to create and launch their iPhone apps. PointAbout is, as… Read more »

Year 2015: 25 Billion Mobile App Downloads

Readwriteweb.com reported a claim made by the market research firm, Juniper.  In a report they released this week, they expect, by the year 2015, consumers will have downloaded at least 25 billion mobile applications to their Smartphones.  Compared to the 2.6 billion applications downloaded in 2009, this will be a mammoth increase. Notably, the predicted increase is due to worldwide “app stores,” including China and India.  The report mentioned “app stores” Getjar, China Unicom, India’s… Read more »

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Christian Science Monitor: Fix the economy? There’s a mobile app for that.

Our COO, Daniel Odio is quoted in this newest edition of the Christian Science Monitor: Revenues from Apple’s and others’ primary app stores are slated to rise from $3 billion last year to $18 billion by 2014, according to Todd Day, an industry analyst at Frost & Sullivan. “I was around in the ’90s when the first browser came out, and this feels like that,” says Daniel Odio, a cofounder of PointAbout, an app developer… Read more »