James has a passion for how technologies influence business and has several Mobile World Congress events under his belt. James has interviewed a variety of leading figures in his career, from former ...

Amazon?s recent decision to not accept a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission over in-application purchases points to growing pressures facing freemium apps as regulators take a closer look at ...

A study performed by App Annie is said to have revealed in a report that Google Play’s revenue in May was not made from paid applications. With over 1.5 million apps from the store platform, it ...

Over the past 12 months, freemium games have become part of the furniture on the App Store - the latest numbers suggesting at least a third of the top grossing iPhone apps come without direct charge.

Freemium – a pricing strategy by which a product or service (typically a digital offering such as software, media, games or web services) is provided free of charge, but money (premium) is charged for ...

The days of those sneaky monthly incremental app charges from carriers are long behind us. Old-timers may recall how just about any downloadable weather, game or news program to a feature phone ...

A new report by app analysis firm Distimo has brought an interesting revelation, that freemium apps are far more popular than anything else. Freemium apps are those that are available free, though ...

Ryan Kim writes that “freemium” iPhone apps, free downloads with in-app upgrades, are gaining favor with developers and consumers. He reports that one-third of iPhone apps that generate the most ...

Monetising paid apps is getting harder - but in-app purchases are on the rise, says analyst... Ask any mobile developer: getting smartphone users to pay for apps isn't easy - and it's only going to ...

Just over one third of the 100 top-grossing iPhone apps are now using a freemium model, GigaOm reports. In other words, the apps are free to download and use, "but make their money through in-app ...

Not every app on your phone has to be a jack-of-all-trades hub that covers everything from smart home devices to text messaging. Sometimes apps can just do one simple job and do it very well to earn a ...

The latest app revenue projections published by Juniper Research suggest consumers will spend more than $75 billion a year on apps by 2017. That's a figure the firm claims will be largely driven by ...