Last month, Yahoo made headlines when it acquired Summly, a newsreading mobile app started by a 17-year-old in England, for an undisclosed sum.
The biggest challenge is bureaucracy, says Digilex's co-founder, Alex Ehrmann: it took four months to set up the company.Taxibeat, a cab-hailing mobile app started in 2010, has expanded to various European cities as well as Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo and Mexico City.
Lyft is giving around 1percentt of its riders access to a different, beta user experience in its mobile app, starting today.
If you don't see the option to create Moments yet, you should soon — Twitter says it's hitting its mobile app starting today.
It's been a long time coming, but user-generated local reviews site Yelp is finally getting with the program: today it is rolling out the ability for users to write reviews directly in its mobile app, starting first with iOS and coming soon to Android (no word on when the feature will be added to its BlackBerry or Windows apps).
While in Beirut I met the founders of Foo-Me, a Lebanese-based mobile app start up, that got a chance to pitch and were finalists at the event.
Today, Socialize has grown to 800 apps across 67 million unique devices, and had just this month scored its first enterprise contract with Warner Bros., which will now be integrating Socialize into its various mobile apps, starting with its "Ellen" app (the daytime talkshow).
Mobile-app start-ups, online real estate giants and even old-school local listing firms are gearing up to streamline the splintered business of apartment advertising, looking to make it more reliable for landlords and more user-friendly for tenants.
For a second, more extreme example, think back to the start of mobile App stores.
Mobile app analytics start-up Flurry is building a business helping iPhone developers get "discovered" in Apple 's App Store.
