We are very happy and proud to announce that we are nominated to The Europas People’s Choice award.

The Awards

The Europas are the premier awards for early, mid, and late stage

technology startups, as well as leading investors and media in the EMEA regions. The Awards celebrate the most forward thinking, progressive and innovative tech companies across over 20 categories. Startups can apply for an award or be nominated by someone else, and winners are selected by a panel of judges, with public and peer voting for certain awards.

For the last three years The Europas have grown and grown under the guidance of TechCrunch’s fantastic European Editor Mike Butcher. Mike is now taking a back seat and the Web Summit team are going to bring their experience running the 4,000+ Web Summit to bear to create an incredible event on the evening of Tuesday 22nd January 2013 in Berlin.

Read Mike’s post on TechCrunch about the Europas here.

The awards have been expanded to include over 20 categories. A fun and fantastic awards ceremony will be followed by an after party in one of Berlin’s hottest venues. The Europas is a chance for you and your team to celebrate a year of hard of work alongside Europe, the Middle East, and Africa’s leading startups, investors and media over one incredible night in Berlin.

Why Should You Vote For Us?

StartApp publicly launched just over a year ago and have achieved remarkable success in that time. We are currently monetizing over 5,000 apps and generating 1.5 million SDK downloads per day. With this amount of daily downloads and traffic, StartApp also generates over 2 billion monthly ad impressions offering a range of unique ad types. In acknowledgement of our achievements we would like to …

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The latest story from the very high-profile Apple vs. Samsung patent battle is that Samsung is going to pay its debt in nickels.
As you probably all heard, Samsung was found guilty of violating various Apple’s patents by essentially making smartphones that are too similar to the iPhone. In addition, Samsung was also found to be in violation of several Apple software patents including elements of the smartphone user design and interface. Apple, for example, was the first company to market a touch-screen interface featuring the ability to zoom in and out by pinching your fingers. Apple also owns patents on certain aspects of screen scrolling behavior, including the way a scrolling screen shakes when pushed too far.
We do believe that Apple’s claims are ridiculous and they are acting like a cry baby when a sibling gets a similar toy. Unfortunately, they won (some would say that it is only thanks to home field advantage) and Samsung still has to pay.

Websites and blogs from all over the world have announced today the arrival of 30 trucks loaded with 5 cents coins to Apple’s California headquarters. Minutes after the trucks arrived, Tim Cook (Apple CEO) received a call from Kwon Oh-Hyun (Samsung CEO) explaining that this is the payment of their debt. Apparently the verdict document did not specify the payment method so Samsung could pretty much do whatever they want.

We broke down the numbers for you:
1 billion dollars equals 20 billion nickels. Each nickel weighs 5 grams which means that 20 billion nickels weigh 100 billion grams. 100 billion grams are 100 million kilos; this is 27% of how much the empire states building weighs! If we put the coins right next to each other we could almost circle the earth.

This data is what made …

“1 million downloads proves monetising from search bolt-on works on Android, says StartApp’s Itay Rokni”.

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“StartApp is a new monetization and distribution platform for Android applications designed to address the challenges the platform has created in terms of revenue generation for developers”

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“StartApp thinks there’s a better way to help developers get some cash, while at the same time bringing a better end-user experience.”

Read more on IntoMobile.

“So how does Startapp work? Pretty simply, actually. The developer integrates the Startapp platform into an app. When the user downloads the app, a new icon appears on the user’s Android phone, enabling them to search the Web using the new icon.”

Read more on BestBuy Mobile.

“Startapp is now launching a new and interesting solution for Android developers to monetize their apps. In one word? Search. Hey, it worked for Google, didn’t it?”

Read more on AppBoy.

 ”with StartApp-generated revenue coming in anywhere between $10,000 and $50,000 should a developer be lucky enough to top the rather lofty figure of 1 million downloads.”

Read more on PocketGamer.