I don’t usually enjoy popping balloons, but there’s way too much hot air going around these days.  It’s time that somebody tells the truth about the current state of iPhone app advertising.  I hear too often from would-be iPhone app developers that making big bucks with ad supported apps is easy: Just stick in [...]

(This is the second of a two part post.  The first part contains a profile of a startup.  This part contains numbers and analysis related to that startup.)
First, some background.  I became interested in the mobile coupon business space a few years back when I started thinking about how mobile coupons could effectively be applied [...]

(This is the first in a two part post. Part one contains a profile of a startup.  Part two contains numbers and analysis related to that startup.)
Mobile Spinach is a small and ambitious Bay Area startup focused on the mobile coupon space.  The company is still at a very early stage — seed funded [...]

I’m in love with an animal!
No, this isn’t some kind of bestiality confession.  I’m talking about Aardvark — a 15-person San Francisco startup made up largely of ex-Googlers and backed by $6 million from top investors.  Like many relationships, this one started with a friend’s introduction.  In February, Omar Christidis had been waxing poetic [...]

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To say that Apple’s App Store is thriving would be an understatement.  There have been 800 million downloads across Apple’s 30 million iPhones and iPod Touches — meaning on average each device has downloaded 27 apps.  The App Store now has over 25,000 apps and 250+ are added every day.
In such [...]