Last week’s Disruptathon event at Gannett/USA Today provided eight entrepreneurs with a platform to show off their mobile apps and app-related startups. Disruptathon is a monthly event that allows startups and industry innovators to get feedback on their disruptive ideas by presenting them to an audience of several hundred people. The audience then uses their iPhone or a Disruptathon-distributed iPod Touch to rate the performances and potential of the ideas. One of the night’s big… Read more »

PointAbout to deepen key niche in mobile app development for Three Pillar Global. Fairfax, VA and San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) May 18, 2011 – Three Pillar Global of Fairfax, VA, a trusted, high-growth software product development innovator providing solutions for today’s expanding mobile environment, and PointAbout, Inc., a developer of mobile applications for some of the world’s leading organizations, today announced that Three Pillar Global will acquire the professional services business of PointAbout, Inc. In… Read more »

Yesterday, PointAbout and our AppMakr team introduced Socialize to the world. Socialize is essentially an “in-app social network” that will allow an application’s users to interact with one another without ever leaving the application. Another way to look at it is an in-app commenting utility. By integrating AppMakr’s newest platform feature, an app’s users can share, comment on, and like material. This encourages social engagement within applications instead of through outside sites like Facebook and Twitter…. Read more »