Category Archives: Leslie Pratch and Pamela Mearsheimer on Apps

The Apps Economy – Redux, Redux

Edited by Leslie Pratch; written by Pamela Mearsheimer Thanks to one of my readers for alerting me to the New York Times cover article: “Virtual Goods Start Bringing Real Paydays”. This is my third post on this topic, so for a background, see the previous posts. Claire Cain Miller and Brad Stone point out how [...]

The Apps Economy, Redux

Edited by Leslie Pratch; written by Pamela Mearsheimer Zynga was not only the cover story in BusinessWeek, it has made it into Fortune. For an explanation of Zynga, see my previous post. What is a social game? Fortune explains it as a free online application accessed through Facebook, MySpace and similar sites. They’re free! But [...]

The Apps Economy

Edited by Leslie Pratch; written by Pamela Mearsheimer They’re here, and they are growing. Apple launched its Apps store in July, 2008, and it has taken off. It took Google three years to turn a profit, but App developer Zynga is profitable now with $100 million in revenues. How does an App developer make money? [...]