Www.polkast.com. StackMob - Build, Deploy, Scale. The Complete Technology Stack For Mobile Applications. Backend for Mobile Apps. StackMob Grabs $7.5M to Offer Backend Support for Mobile Devs. Stackmob, a cloud platform for mobile developers built in the mold of Heroku, has raised $7.5 million in a Series A round as it ramps up its offering for mobile developers. The new money, led by Trinity Ventures, will help the company expand and push toward a public launch later this year. San Francisco-based Stackmob offers mobile developers a back-end cloud platform that allows them to easily build, deploy and manage their applications without having to fuss with many of the infrastructure issues that can plague startups. That means developers can spend less time building out the basic services that most mobile apps have anyway and focus on a differentiated experience. Especially with many startups scrambling to add talent, StackMob allows them to avoid having to hire as big a team. “We see ourselves as the experienced back end for the masses.
Everyone forgets how early we are in mobile. So far, StackMob has been in private beta with about 200 iOS apps on the platform. StackMob Is 'Heroku For Mobile'. And Proud Of It. And Potentially Just As Huge. It was almost exactly two years ago that we first wrote about a company called Heroku. At the time, the Y Combinator startup was little more than a good idea: ease the development and deployment process a lot of other startups face by putting it in the cloud. Last month, Salesforce bought them for $212 million in cash. It’s no wonder that a new startup, StackMob, doesn’t mind being called a “Heroku for mobile”. Truth be told, that is a pretty good way to describe what they’re doing. They’ve created a cloud-based system to ease the development and deployment of mobile applications.
Or even more simply put, “we’re trying to solve the backend services for mobile applications,” is how co-founder Ty Amell phrases it. They want to be the single integration point for all the backend needs that an app developer may have. And like Heroku, this has the potential to be huge. What kinds of things? StackMob launched a very small alpha test in late November/early December. GENWI – Cloud Publishing for Mobile -- Transform online media and marketing promotions into live, social, and engaging iPad, iPhone, Android, and HTML5 applications. GENWI Launches iPad App Publishing Solution And Enhanced Mobile CMS. We first covered GENWI back in 2007, when the company was a social feed reader that allowed users to organize their content feeds by category and share with friends.
GENWI has gone through several variations since, most notable among them the launch of iSites, a quick and easy mobile app development platform for iOS and Android, which led to a $1 million investment from Inventus and Quest Venture Partners. Today, the startup is announcing a rebranding, which is really a return to the GENWI name, folding iSites and iSites.us into the GENWI umbrella. The cloud-based smartphone and tablet app publishing platform continues to push forward in the mobile app development space, today launching an iPad app publishing solution and mobile content management system (CMS).
As such, GENWI’s iPad platform will allow publications and media companies (and everyone in between) to create cloud-backed iPad apps on the fly. Check it out and let us know what you think. GENWI allows anyone to make its iPad apps. There’s a growing number of mobile and tablet app making services out there. The cloud-based mobile publishing platform GENWI, which up until this point allowed users to make iPhone and Android apps, expanded its offering to include the iPad to the mix. Yep that means that anyone without technical knowledge is now able to make an application that runs on Apple’s tablet.
The service can be used for creation of both simple apps to more complex ones, featuring e-commerce capabilities. Users can customize the app design and even select from dozens of pre-designed templates and user interfaces. Moreover, GENWI can also handle various stream sources, from simple RSS to ATOM, XML, APIs and encrypted data. Finally, it’s worth adding that this service is not just made for small companies. Enterprise scalability comes built in, allowing handling of any volume of app download or usage, from the smallest blog publisher to a major corporation. About The Author Dusan Belic Buy a New Cell Phone. GENWI Raises $4M For Cloud Publishing Platform For Tablets, Smartphones.
Exclusive - GENWI, which offers a nifty cloud publishing platform for mobile devices, has raised $4 million in Series A funding from Nexus Venture Partners and earlier backers Inventus Capital Partners and Quest Venture Partners. The company has raised a total of $5.1 million to date. Offering a cloud-based platform for publishing content on tablets and smartphones, GENWI says it has created and actively manages over 1,500 apps for ‘thousands of’ publishers. GENWI lets its clients publish real-time content once while delivering interactive apps across a wide range of mobile devices (iOS, Android, HTML5 and more). GENWI’s Cloud Publishing Suite offers a mobile-optimized content aggregation and management system, a custom interface layout engine, usage analytics, intelligent content curation based on analytics, social and ad networks integration, and app distribution – all from the cloud.
Founded in 2010, GENWI is a privately-held firm based in Los Altos, California. Crashlytics. Halo Networks - Changing the future of mobile data. Halo Networks.