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App Store hits 650,000 apps, 30 billion downloads, $5 billion doled out to developers Jun 11th 2012, 17:12 One of the first pieces of news out of the gate at Apple's WWDC 2012 keynote is its success with mobile apps so far. The company has hit 650,000 apps in the App Store -- 225,000 of which are specific to the iPad. Customers have downloaded 30 billion of the apps since they became an option four years ago. Developers also have a good reason to salivate: there are now over 400 million iTunes accounts with credit cards, and they've been paid a total of $5 billion for all of their app sales. App Store hits 650,000 apps, 30 billion downloads, $5 billion doled out to developers originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 11 Jun 2012 13:12:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink   |   | Email this | Comments Apple WWDC 2012 liveblog! Jun 11th 2012, 16:35 Back in March, at the tail end of the new iPad's launch, Apple CEO Tim Cook did something atypical. He encouraged us to expect even more from his company in 2012. From an outfit that rarely sets lofty expectations, that's saying something. Here at WWDC 2012, we're on hand to find out what exactly Apple has in the hopper. A deep dive into iOS 6 is guaranteed, but beyond that, all we have are rumors, smoke signals and few underground whispers. New MacBook Air / Pro laptops with Retina graphics? New iMacs with more pixels that are calculable by mere mortals? A new iPhone? Join us here at 10AM PT (that's 1PM on the right coast; pre-breakfast over in Kauai) for the blow-by-blow coverage you've come to expect! June 11, 2012 1:00 PM EDT Apple WWDC 2012 liveblog! originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 11 Jun 2012 12:35:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink   |   | Email this | Comments Sprint stops being Clearwire's majority owner Jun 11th 2012, 16:18 Sprint has declared that it's no longer Clearwire's majority owner in a move designed to shield the carrier should the worst happen to its troubled bedfellow. While Big Yellow is planning to supplement its own LTE network with Clearwire's TD-LTE backbone, it's looked to distance itself on the business side from a company that finds it very hard to make money -- requiring handouts from Sprint just to stay afloat. Sprint stops being Clearwire's majority owner originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 11 Jun 2012 12:18:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink   |  Reuters  | Email this | Comments ITC denies HTC chance to wield Google patents against Apple Jun 11th 2012, 15:56 HTC hasn't been having the best time bringing ITC disputes against Apple, and the situation just got a bit more glum. Administrative Law Judge Thomas Pender has ruled that HTC can't use the patents it borrowed from Google to challenge Apple's products, as the Taiwan phone maker hasn't properly acquired all the necessary rights. If the decision is upheld after the (possible) appeal, it cuts the amount of ammunition for HTC's second complaint by more than half: only three of the eight patents will hold up. The One X designer can still try to appeal or get Google involved, and Apple still can't rest easy knowing that just one patent infringement verdict would be bad news. Even so, the ruling does take a considerable amount of sting out of the ITC case as-is -- and at a time when Apple is ramping up its own complaints. ITC denies HTC chance to wield Google patents against Apple originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 11 Jun 2012 11:56:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink   |  FOSSpatents  | Email this | Comments Twitter airs first TV spot during NASCAR, implores racing fans to discover the magic of hashtags Jun 11th 2012, 15:34 Given #thescope with which Twitter has #invadedpopularculture, it may come as a shock to realize that the company hasn't really ventured too far into the world of television advertising -- but then, it seems that it's been doing a pretty good job getting enough #freeadvertising as is. Clearly the folks at Twitter saw an untapped resource in the form of the #NASCAR audience, using the weekend's race to launch its first TV #adcampaign, revolving around fittingly pithy spots capped off with the TWITTER.COM/#NASCAR URL, which redirects to a landing page for the weekend's festivities. Relive the #thrilloftherace with a slew of Twitter ads #afterthebreak. Continue reading Twitter airs first TV spot during NASCAR, implores racing fans to discover the magic of hashtags Twitter airs first TV spot during NASCAR, implores racing fans to discover the magic of hashtags originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 11 Jun 2012 11:34:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink The Next Web, Business Insider  |  Twitter  | Email this | Comments

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