Tag: Google Play store
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Opera Mini – the data-saving browser that already boasts over 100 million users in Africa – became the number one downloaded app in Kenya the past weekend thanks to the tremendous success of Opera’s “Shake and Win” campaign. Dedicated to football’s greatest celebration, the World Cup, “Shake and Win” offered Opera fans the chance to win…
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Vodacom has partnered with Google to offer a worry-free experience for its Android smartphone subscribers when accessing the Google Play Store in South Africa. Vodacom will offer exclusive Google Play Store bundles enabling customers to browse, download and update their favourite apps from the Google Play Store, without the anxiety of additional data costs. The…
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A little more than a decade ago, an application (app) was associated with form-filling. Now, the term has been defined by technology, more specifically mobile phones. Apps initially used to simply be additions that could be applied to your smartphone, but have now since become pivotal parts of most people’s lives. The launch of app…
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Safaricom has partnered with mobile commerce enabler, DOCOMO Digital, to give the telco’s MPESA subscribers the option to pay for content on the Google Play Store using M-PESA. The integration, powered by DOCOMO Digital’s mobile commerce enabling platform using Google Play’s payment API, allows M-PESA customers to use the mobile money service to pay for goods and…
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Here is Distimo’s review of the best performing applications over June 2013 in terms of free downloads, paid downloads and most revenue globally aggregated. In the past months, Distimo focused only on the two major stores, the Apple App Store and Google Play. This month, the five most popular paid and free applications in the…
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Following the past months, Distimo has – through its blog – presented the top performing applications for May 2013. An analytical post by Distimo’s Christel Schoger – which we reproduce here – highlights the leading applications of the three categories: free, paid, and grossing in both major stores, Google Play and the Apple App Store (for…
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Four models of the Samsung Galaxy range of smartphones as well as the Asus Nexus have emerged as the 5 early adopters of the beta version of the Opera for Android browser. According to a media release sent out by Opera yesterday, the 5 leading devices in terms of Opera for Android downloads are: 1.…