This year’s Summer Olympics won’t just have you glued to your TV: NBC Olympics and Adobe today announced the first two official Olympics apps which will allow you to view live video, highlights, news, and more on your smartphone or tablet. The NBC Olympics and “Live Extra” apps make extensive use of Adobe technology, hence […] http://goo.gl/WpbHu

The Good Ear, a company that has developed a smartphone app to help with hearing loss, has emerged triumphant in our smartphone app competition at MobileBeat 2012. For winning the competition, The Good Ear bagged our Tesla Prize, which is named after Nikola Tesla, the scientist who developed early mobile communication. The company will receive […] http://goo.gl/0ebV0

You know how long consumers are using your mobile app, and what they’re doing within them — but where are they actually located? That’s the question location analytics company Placed hopes to answer with its product, Placed for Developers. Previously only available for Android apps, Placed announced today that its product is now available for […] http://goo.gl/99QdR

Five startups showed off their tablet apps at MobileBeat 2012 today, but only NukoToys impressed the judges enough to win the our Innovation Competition for tablets. The company has developed interactive tablet apps that work together with trading cards, making them perfect fodder for kids obsessed with collectable toys like Pokemon cards and Skylanders figures. […] http://goo.gl/RDPHn

ESPN already considers mobile its fourth largest network (after the two ESPN TV networks and ESPN.com), but that’s not stopping the company from focusing even further on mobile devices. The company will soon debut new College Football mobile apps, which will also serve as the template for future mobile sports apps, ESPN Mobile general manager […] http://goo.gl/WYTsA

One of the major issues will the mobile ecosystem today, according to Mark Pincus, founder of Zynga, is the fact that developers are still separated from the app store. “We need to be more interconnected with each other as an industry,” said Pincus at VentureBeat’s MobileBeat-GamesBeat 2012 conference in San Francisco. “We need channels so […] http://goo.gl/WXU3A

It seems like Facebook’s App Center is getting some global love. The social network’s marketplace is officially open to all users in the U.S. and seven other countries, meanwhile it will soon expand to seven more countries with new, translated apps. In addition to the U.S., the App Center is also 100 percent available to […] http://goo.gl/fIMtq

How sweet it is to be loved by Instagram users. A 22-year-old Ukrainian developer’s quest to win an application contest with an Instagram desktop app called Instagrille won him something more sugary than the $30,000 grand prize purse. Denys Denysiuk, who actually placed third in last year’s Pokki app challenge, won the acquisition attention of Pokki […] http://goo.gl/PfXBz

If you’re tired of Travel Channel reruns, New York City-based Tripl wants to offer you a more social alternative: a simple way to follow your friends’ travels via geographical information in their social media posts. While it won’t compete with a well-crafted Anthony Bourdain show, Tripl could let you live vicariously through your friends’ experiences, […] http://goo.gl/rt0HV

There’s more to running an app business than just building a cool app. Join us at MobileBeat 2012 where some of the minds behind popular apps like ESPN Mobile, Z2Live, and CBS Interactive, will discuss what it takes to create a thriving app business. The Art & Science of Running Your App Business with a […] http://goo.gl/Ckjrk

The fifth leading cause of death in America is not cars, cancer, or camping in the woods with buxom beauties while listening to creepy music.

Rather, it’s doctors.

More specifically, medical mistakes and errors resulting from miscommunication. That’s exactly what … http://goo.gl/lWzBV

Tablets are a dream come true for news junkies, but with a tidal wave of content spread across countless apps and sites, it’s tough to just sit back and stay informed. Watchup, a new startup competing at our MobileBeat 2012 Innovation Competition next week, hopes to reduce the noise with its free tablet app, which […] http://goo.gl/55K6p

Weather is normally really dull, but it’s a tad more exciting when there’s lots of money involved. Weather provider The Weather Channel is scooping up online weather veteren Weather Underground. Exact details of the deal weren’t disclosed, so our references to “Make it Rain” will have to remain vague.  Weather Channel says that the buy will […] http://goo.gl/YTlsf

Soon your iPhone (and/or iPad) won’t just be the device you immediately reach for whenever a long patch of commercial interruptions comes on while watching a TV show. Today Brightcove is announcing a new set of tools for its App Cloud mobile application building service that will allow developers to take advantage of a person’s […] http://goo.gl/2uU3y

Watch out Google Chrome: For many Android users, Mozilla’s updated Firefox app could quickly become their favorite mobile browser. Mozilla has been beta testing a revamped version of its Android Firefox app for over a month now, and today the company is rolling those updates into the official Firefox Android app. The app now sports […] http://goo.gl/EBL3U