Kim Kardashian: Hollywood's success in the App Store could open the doors to future celebrity-publisher partnerships, suggests app analytics firm App Annie in a new report out this morning which looks back on the latest in app store trends.
Since we launched Pryte we have worked to reimagine the way mobile data works in an app-driven world, by enabling partnerships between app and content providers, and mobile operators.
The startup will be using its new investment to continue securing partnerships with app stores and other big third party app resources, and according to the Quixey team, there are more than 25 potential partnerships in the pipeline.
Along with Ms. Olsson, the team includes Jean Wang, 33, a hardware engineer in charge of Glass features like optics and acoustics, and Kelly Liang, 39, the director of business development, who oversees partnerships with app developers and others.
It's the first in what promises to be a busy year of Fingerprint announcements, partnerships, and app launches.
Granted, it's a new tech for the phone, but for a company that has so many solid partnerships with app developers, it's surprising that it took this long to arrive on additional applications.
While Jacobs doesn't divulge any acquisition plans for the company, whose last round of funding was $10m in November 2011, he does say there are plans for deeper partnerships with apps in "adjacent" categories, citing MyFitnessPal and Jawbone UP as two examples.
(The company also announced partnership with app development platform Appcelerator).
Verizon recently announced a partnership with app discovery engine Chomp in September 2011 to help power Verizon Apps, its recently redesigned apps storefront.
The latest step for Berlin-based mobile payment startup SumUp is a partnership with app maker blue:solution software, developer of the TopReparatur platform which is used by 10,000 artisans and repair people across Germany.
