ISBX Blog

Mobile apps are huge.  If you’re not sold on just how relevant this industry is, take a look at the stats on our infographic and read on.

In early 2008 the total worldwide revenue generated by mobile applications was exactly $0.  By 2011, just three-and-half years later, that number had risen to a staggering $5 billion.  To give you some perspective on how much that is, in that same year, Facebook, the most trafficked site on the planet, generated ‘just’ $3.78 billion in revenue.

We are excited to announce that our acquisition of Couponbar officially closed on January 15, 2013. Couponbar will operate as a separate team under our product division, Sierra Labs, Inc. and the service will be renamed ISBX Coupons in the coming weeks to reflect the business' growing market leadership in the B2B segment.

Here at ISBX, we’ve been growing our company over the last several years. As we expand, we are always looking to find the best and brightest talents to join the ISBX team. During this process, we meet a lot people of varying backgrounds, ranging from product marketers to app developers, and hear about many new innovative ideas. Some of these ideas are so completely awesome, we want to see it come to life and to be a part of the creation process. 

I came across this article today and just had to post it up for everyone. Sencha is a company that makes development tools and JavaScript libraries for developers to build HTML5 apps for web and mobile. Although we don’t use Sencha tools in-house, we do share Sencha’s sentiment about Facebook’s app development expertise. Check out this post:

This past year, ISBX had opportunities to build and launch educational apps that will enhance the way we learn, think and do things on a global level. One such recently launched educational app is the SPARKvue HD iPad and Android Tablet App (“SPARKvue HD”) for PASCO scientific.

I was recently excited to read through the Time magazine “Wireless” issue.  Some of us still enjoy print magazines from time to time.

For the new television show Sullivan & Son (Thursdays at 10/9C), ISBX created an HTML 5 app for TBS (Click here to check out the App). In the past these types of games and apps would have been built in Adobe Flash, but as mobile and web converge together Adobe Flash is becoming less relevant. The fact that Adobe is stopping mobile Flash support says it all (Adobe's Blog Post).

We got an email from Craig Agranoff of CBS12 over the weekend expressing interest in our Build-A-Card: Cupid Edition App.  We were simultaneously being featured on iTunes as well (our 8^th time one of our apps was featured on iTunes), so that was probably how we got on his radar.  We did a few emails back and forth, and apparently he was impressed enough to feature our application at the top of the CBS12 Valentine’s Day special segment on the 13^th of February. 

I recently wrote to California's 36th District Respresentative, Congresswoman Janice Hahn regarding my thought's on SOPA.  Her response below:

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We recently launched “Happy Feet Two: The Penguin App” in conjunction with WarnerBros and Slam Media. It was an instant success with placement on the iTunes Homepage under News and Noteworthy as well as placement within the Top Free Apps list. Over the first weekend we saw over 150,000 downloads. The app is expected to hit well into the millions through the life of the app.