SocialMediaNews
Facebook App On GetJar Surpasses 50 Million Downloads

The world’s second largest app store behind Apple iTunes, GetJar, said today that more than 50 million people have downloaded the Facebook mobile app in the past six months.

With GetJar’s App Download Page (ADP) and Mobile Site Shortcut (MSS) users are able to download the app, which gives them a shortcut to access Facebook’s mobile website from their phone with a single click.

IT Management
Data Suggests Mobile Apps Will Surpass CD in Sales By 2012

Just how big is the market for mobile apps?

IT Management
Mobile App Market To Soar To $17.5 Billion

The worldwide mobile applications market is on track to be worth $17.5 by 2012, according to a new report commissioned by GetJar, the globe’s second largest app store.

Mobile app downloads across all handsets are estimated to climb from over 7 billion downloads in 2009 to almost 50 billion in 2012, a year-over- year growth rate of 92 percent.