Native or Web site? Bizness application adds HTML5 platform for small and medium-sized businesses create their own applications — to both

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Bizness Apps launch, which gives small businesses the means to quickly and easily create a mobile application that launched in October 2010, and is growing like gangbusters, reaching more than 1000 applications that 10 languages and more than 20 countries in less than 9 months. She also recently teamed with WuFoo to give small and medium-sized businesses the ability to create and seamlessly add contact forms, online surveys and invitations for their applications. Startup also has interesting founding story that provides useful lessons for your business. Check out our April coverage here.

Bizness Apps value proposition is simple: run wants to make mobile applications available, customizable and easy-to-small business owner. Thus starting offers DIY iPhone, iPad and Android application platform that enables SMB to create, edit, and manage mobile applications without any programming experience required. You start with a template, customize them to meet your business and then Bizness Apps makes them native apps and distributes them on iTunes and the Android market.

Run is not without competitors in this space as iSites, SwebApps and mobile Roadie are targeting similar endpoint. But real Apps Bizness advantage that this product is easy to use, well designed, yet remains accessible. Price for use iOS or Android platform-$ 39, while those who want to create Android applications and iOS are paying $ 59. This accessibility is very appealing for small business, wants to take advantage of the mobile business without having to fork over thousands of dollars to do so.

Native apps are great and all, you could say, but what about this should HTML5 revolution? Where is my Web applications? Accelerated, the fact that heated debate whether the app developers should go to HTML5 or native apps (as evidenced by mg on the post titled back in February), the Bizness Apps founder and Executive Director Andrew Gazdecki said that he thinks that the best approach is to place a bet on mobile as a whole — not one or the other.

That is why the launch today announces the launch of HTML5 version of the platform for their DIY mobile applications for small businesses. With this new Web feature service, users now have the ability to create almost identical mobile experience for every mobile platform, including iOS, Android, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, and so on — they can go native HTML5, or both. For an additional $ 10 per month.

Within the framework of the launch platform for HTML5 Bizness Apps built QR code enabled mobile marketing template to provide a simple and affordable way to market their mobile applications for clients small and medium-sized businesses. Image template, as shown above, is automatically generated (with the possibility of printing) with one click from within the platform for HTML5.

The idea here, said Gazdecki, is to help direct business customers for the relevant applications based on what type of mobile device they are using. For example, if a user has an Android phone, they scan the Android themed QR code assigned to business Android app.

Another important piece of the puzzle in the establishment of a development tool agnostic application platform for small and medium business is the existence in the mother and HTML5 and accessibility and the new possibilities of mobile marketing, Bizness Apps became an interesting platform and is well-positioned to weather the native vs. web apps debate.

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Textbook Rental giant Chegg HTML5 now offers digital books; Buys online learning student services of Fortune

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As college students in the country beginning section back to dormitories and purchase their books per semester, textbooks car rental giant Chegg makes major waves in space with a number of new announcements. Firstly, Chegg finally going digital, and will steadily rolling e tutorials on it's platform to provide millions of print books and textbooks for students by the end of the year. Secondly Chegg has partnered with a number of publishers (including four of the five leading educational publishers) to propose to his students, such as Cengage Learning, Elsevier, f.a. Davis, Macmillan, Mcfarland, McGraw-Hill, Oxford University Press, Rowman Littlefield &, Taylor and Francis and Wiley e-books.

Chegg's background was founded in 2007 and became the largest giant Rent textbooks for students. In fact, millions of students through 7000 campuses use Chegg in rent. But in space, with a number of other competitors, such as CampusBookRentals and BookRenter, eCampus and others; The company has expanded its strategy beyond just rent to compete in space.

During the past year, acquired the Chegg CourseRank and Cramster, which help students to select courses and learn from them. Notehall services guide also picked up a study the company recently.

The company just announced that it has acquired a Fortune online guide marketplace for those who need help, or help others with homework. Student destiny, which was founded in 2005, allows students to ask questions or post tutorials on a wide range of issues. Students may submit a question, which is then sent to the network of student Fortune experts, which in turn writes tutorial which helps answer the question for a fee. Students can also serve as experts, to earn money for writing textbooks. The service is already used by more than 300 000 students.

Director Dan Rosensweig said simply – if the Facebook for your social graph, and LinkedIn for your professional graph, Chegg wants to be a centralized platform for the chart. It basically turns into a one-stop-shop (the site was also modified in the light of this new strategy) for students to search for educational resources and services, ranging from tutorials, tips, to commemorate the adoption. As explains Rosensweig, "we want students to use Chegg 300 days a year rather than before each semester.

Of course we all know, digital textbooks are the future of large and small companies throwing their hats into the ring. Amazon now offering digital books to Kindle. And Kno (which was actually founded by Osman Rashid, Chegg co-founder) also plays in space, as a hint. But one thing that Chegg in his favour to millions of students who already know the brand as textbook Rental giant.

With the digital book, offering students can download HTML5 formatted, browser based e-textbooks that may be available on any device, including the iPad. Each book will come with one-click theme navigation and include the ability to select, take notes and search directly in the workbook. Besides offering e tutorial will include the tool read in standby mode ", where students can access their textbooks online while they wait for their printed textbook to arrive. This is a very useful feature for those who wait until the last minute to order textbooks (I know that I did back in college and grad school). You can also rent or buy e-books.

Rosensweig said that the release of digital versions of textbooks will be a gradual process and already have tens of thousands of digital books on the site. At the end of the year, the goal is to make the digital book, offering one of our two search on the site. And he adds that he is a priority for the Chegg to offer digital versions of popular books that people want (i.e. necessary textbooks).

Clearly Rosensweig has an ambitious plan to Chegg, and obviously, telling him that he is very optimistic that the company will be the go-to educational resources and a platform for students and beyond. Income, according to our calculations in January was about $ 150 million, and probably this number has grown since then. Rosensweig confirms that the income is growing nicely, "especially now, when the company added new revenue streams with daily transactions and through premium services company acquired technologies. In fact, he said that all the channels available has increased.

Beyond just income there are these rumors of planned IPO to Chegg. Rosensweig said this public offering: if it makes sense, we will consider it. Right now, we are witnessing a very rapid growth and a good amount of funding. Chegg raises $ 219 million to date, most recently Adding $ 75 million in its coffers last fall.

I have a feeling that we will see more aggressive movies from Chegg in the near future.

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