mobile-application

The Cupertino, Calif.-based company, which registered for the trademark App Store in 2008, has been embroiled in a legal fight with Amazon.com Inc. over the online retailer's use of the term as mobile-application stores become a key feature for many smartphones.

Apple to GetJar: Drop App Store Yukari Iwatani Kane 2011

Customers of Dice.com, a job board for tech professionals, expect cloud computing — which enables users to access programs and data stored online — and mobile-application development to be two of the quickest growing in-demand skill sets this year, said Tom Silver , senior vice president of North America for Dice Holdings Inc.

How's Your HTML5? Joe Light 2011

NetQin's decline was the steepest since Chinese mobile-application company Sky-mobi Ltd. dropped 25% during its debut in December.

China's NetQin Notches Worst Debut of Year in U.S. Lynn Cowan 2011

David King , who recently launched mobile-application company Camino Real Inc., said he could also have taken advantage of the heated market but chose "to do the opposite."

Web Start-Ups Get Upper Hand Over Investors Pui-Wing Tam 2011

"Admeld is close to top-tier Web publishers and Google has not had those same deep relationships," said Jim Payne , chief executive of MoPub Inc., which helps mobile-application companies sell display-ad inventory.

Google in Talks to Buy Online-Ad Firm Admeld Emily Steel 2011

Web or mobile-application businesses are good ideas for young people because they don't require much capital to start, says Gregg Fairbrothers , an adjunct professor at Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business in Hanover, N.H., and director of the Dartmouth Entrepreneurial Network.

Creating a Company Rachel Louise Ensign 2011

And last year Google also closed the $750 million acquisition of AdMob, which helps mobile-application companies sell display ads.

Google in Deal to Buy Admeld Amir Efrati 2011

Times are good for Web- and mobile-application developers.

How's Your HTML5? Joe Light 2011

"Admeld is close to top-tier Web publishers and Google has not had those same deep relationships," said Jim Payne , chief executive of MoPub Inc., which helps mobile-application companies sell display-ad inventory.

Google in Talks to Buy Online-Ad Firm Admeld Emily Steel 2011

And last year Google also closed the $750 million acquisition of AdMob, which helps mobile-application companies sell display ads.

Google in Deal to Buy Admeld Amir Efrati 2011