Posts Tagged ‘GetJar’

Chris Dury to Lead GetJar

April 13th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in People | No Comments »

Last night, GetJar announced a new executive structure for the company that’s known for its huge free appstore. The company will now be led by former US-based COO Chris Dury.

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Patrick Mork Moves to Google

August 8th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in People | No Comments »

Following his career at Glu and then GetJar, Patrick Mork is now moving to Google as their new Marketing Director for Mobile Applications. He announced his move on his own blog.

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GetJar Ends White Label Stores

April 13th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

About a year ago, GetJar launched their White Label store program to stimulate downloads through operators. Now, the company announced it will be ending the program as consumers moved away from the operators.

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Opera Booted Off GetJar

March 9th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

As a response to launching their own App Store, Opera is likely to see downloads of their popular browser go down for a bit as GetJar booted the app from their app store.

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GetJar Secures $25 Million Investment

February 15th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

In a third round of financing, Get Jar has secured $25 million in capital. Though the company is running open app stores for multiple OS environments, the money will mainly be used for a push into Android.

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Com2Us Skips Android Market for Slice It! Release

November 24th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Marketing Strategies, Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

Com2Us has released their new Android game Slice It! exclusively on GetJar. Com2Us is the second company to bypass Android Market upon launching a new Android title.

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GetJar Buys Into Mobile Games

October 6th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution | No Comments »

GetJar has formed a new strategy to increase traffic to its already popular app channels. It will now be buying complete mobile games from developers in order to give them away for free on their portal.

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GetJar Does Virgin Mobile India Too

August 27th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution | No Comments »

Earlier today we wrote that GetJar entered into a deal with Digi in Malaysia to offer their content directly to DiGi consumers. It turns out, a similar deal is in place with Virgin Mobile India.

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GetJar Opens App Store on DiGi

August 27th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution | No Comments »

Malaysian operator DiGi and GetJar have announced a partnership in which GetJar is launching their App Store on the operators mobile internet portal.

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Bitstream (Bolt Browser) Becomes a GetJar Affiliate

August 6th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution | No Comments »

Though Bitstream’s Bolt Browser has been profiting from placement on GetJar for some time now, it seems the two have been working out an alternative deal to now help grow GetJar.

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