Companies combine to create enterprise-grade application development platform

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIF. – January 18, 2011 – Appcelerator®, the leading platform for rapidly developing native mobile, desktop, and tablet applications using Web technologies announced today that it has acquired Aptana®, the leading integrated development environment (IDE) for building web applications. The acquisition sets the stage for a new standard in next-generation application development by providing Web developers with a best-in-class, enterprise-grade development platform to rapidly build rich native applications that integrate easily with the cloud. The acquisition also brings together two of the world’s largest web development communities, Appcelerator’s and Aptana’s, to create a huge application development base of over 1,500,000 application developers.

Riding the Wave: Cloud-Connected Applications Go Mobile

Web developers are uniquely positioned to benefit from the two biggest trends in technology today: cloud computing and mobility. As the industry shifts from a 3-tiered web model to a distributed mobile world filled with rich Internet-connected mobile applications, so too does the need for a platform that better orchestrates and enables the extension of the web to mobile devices.

“The Internet has moved from an end destination to a cloud service that connects the web to billions of different devices and millions of applications,” noted Scott Ellison, VP of Mobile & Consumer Connected Platforms at IDC Research. “The Appcelerator/Aptana acquisition reflects the underlying need to rapidly build cloud-connected mobile applications while minimizing the fragmentation risk that has clearly arisen from device proliferation.”

Combined Offering Creates Best-in-Class, Cross-Platform Development Solution

Today, Appcelerator leads the industry in cross-platform development with tens of millions of users using over 10,000 native iOS, Android and desktop applications. In addition, with over 3,000 APIs in its flagship product, Appcelerator Titanium, the company also offers the deepest set of capabilities available of any development platform on the market. The Aptana acquisition moves the company to the next level by extending the capabilities of Appcelerator’s popular development platform to include world-class development tools that significantly improve developer productivity, integration and cloud connectivity.

“We have always focused on enabling the best possible native application experience,” commented Jeff Haynie, CEO, Appcelerator. “This announcement furthers that vision by empowering our growing community of developers to build, test, and deploy native, cloud-connected mobile applications faster and with higher quality than ever before. We are also excited to introduce Aptana’s millions of developers to the mobile innovation wave that we have been riding and supporting as a company over the past two years.”

“Today two great web technology companies have come together in a very synergistic way,” said Douglas Schrier from Rembrandt Venture Partners. “The combination of both companies’ brands, products, and developer bases create a huge opportunity for the next generation of web and mobile apps.”

“We think bringing Aptana’s affinity with a large web developer base together with Appcelerator’s solutions for the mobile developer will create a lot of value,” said Arthur Patterson of Accel Partners.

Beta Available in Q1, 2011

As part of the acquisition, the entire Aptana team has joined Appcelerator to continue building out the company’s platform and tools. Appcelerator plans to integrate support for its mutual customer base and combined developer community over the coming months.

Appcelerator will begin offering a free beta of its integrated Appcelerator/Aptana offering in late Q1, 2011. This release will include a full debugger, auto-complete, and robust editing tools for Titanium-based applications. The company will also be making additional product roadmap announcements over the coming months.

About Appcelerator

Appcelerator is the leading enterprise-grade cross-platform development solution on the market today, with over 1.5 Million developers using its software to power over 10,000 cloud-connected mobile, desktop, and web applications used by tens of millions of users every day. The company’s flagship offering, Appcelerator Titanium, is the only open source platform to enable fully native, cross-platform development, from a single codebase, at web development speed for these three platforms. Appcelerator’s customers can leverage their existing skills and open, industry standard technologies to decrease time-to-market and development costs, increase customer adoption and revenues, and enjoy greater flexibility and control. For more information, please visit www.appcelerator.com.

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Company Adds VP of Sales and VP of Customer Engineering

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIF. January 10, 2011 – Appcelerator®, the leading platform for rapidly developing native mobile, desktop, and iPad applications using Web technologies, announced today the company has doubled in size since November and added two key positions to its management team. Trenton Truitt has joined as VP of Worldwide Sales, and Kincy Clark is the new VP of Customer Engineering.

“Appcelerator has rapidly grown its customer base over the past year and we have increasingly focused on becoming a full application solutions provider that now offersAppcelerator Titanium-powered solutions for mobile commerce, geo-location, media, social, analytics and more,” said Jeff Haynie, CEO of Appcelerator. “With this growth and transition comes the need for veteran sales and engineering executives who will help us expand into new markets and provide the highest level of technical and development support for new and existing services.”

As VP of Worldwide Sales, Trenton Truitt will be responsible for expanding Appcelerator’s customer base, and growing new customer segments that map to Titanium-powered solutions. Previously Truitt was regional vice president for EMC’s Information Intelligence Group, and held numerous sales positions at companies including Documentum, Asera and Parametric Technology Corporation. He graduated with a B.S. in Business Administration from the California Maritime Academy.

As VP of Customer Engineering, Kincy Clark is responsible for Appelerator’s technical and development support, professional services and presales, as well as developing and working with technical partners to augment Appcelerator’s services offering. Kincy most recently served as VP of operations at Funambol, a provider of open source mobile cloud sync and push messaging for connected devices. Prior to that, he held senior operations roles at DHAP Digital, Insevo, and Apsylog/Peregrine, among others. He is a graduate of Claremont McKenna College.

Appcelerator has more than doubled in size since the end of November since raising its Series B round with Sierra Ventures and eBay. Beyond the new executive management hires, the company is adding staff in engineering, sales, professional services, support, and marketing. Appcelerator expects to continue its growth spurt to keep pace with ongoing demand for intuitive, feature-rich applications for mobile, tablet and desktop platforms.

About Appcelerator

Appcelerator enables web developers, ad agencies, ISVs, and enterprises to take advantage of the explosive growth in mobile, desktop, and iPad applications. The company’s flagship offering, Titanium, is the only open source platform to enable cross-platform development, from a single codebase, at web development speed for these three platforms. Appcelerator’s customers can leverage their exiting skills and open, industry standard technologies to decrease time-to-market and development costs, increasing customer adoption and revenues, and enjoying greater flexibility and control. For more information, please visit www.appcelerator.com.

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Merchants Can Rapidly Build Apps On One Web Code Base with Full Range of Commerce Capabilities;
Appcelerator Closes $9 Million Funding Round with Sierra Ventures and eBay

Innovate 2010, SAN FRANCISCO – October 26, 2010 –Appcelerator®, the leading platform for rapidly developing native mobile, desktop, and iPad applications using Web technologies announced today that it has entered into an agreement with PayPal to offer an integrated mobile commerce solution through PayPal’s merchant channel. This new mobile commerce offering will make it easy for the millions of PayPal merchants, along with Appcelerator’s 77,000+ Web developers to rapidly build native iOS, Android, and BlackBerry commerce applications across handsets, tablets, connected TVs, and other devices.

Appcelerator and PayPal Enter Mobile Commerce Partnership

Appcelerator has signed a mobile partner program agreement with PayPal to offer a fully integrated mobile commerce offering called Titanium+Commerce to over 8 million PayPal merchants in the first half of 2011. Titanium+Commerce, available in beta starting today, makes it easy for any merchant to rapidly build cross-platform mobile applications that harness a full set of commerce capabilities using existing Web skills and technologies. Merchants and online businesses can rapidly extend into mobile commerce by enabling the purchase of real and virtual goods, services, and content from smartphones, tablets, connected TVs, and other devices.

“Appcelerator is already the number two Apple App Store publisher because they enable rapid mobile innovation,” said Osama Bedier, PayPal’s vice president of platform, mobile and new ventures. “I’m excited to be working with them to bring that innovation potential to mobile commerce, which I believe will one day be bigger than e commerce.”

Titanium+Commerce will initially consist of an integration of PayPal’s Mobile Payment Library on top of Appcelerator’s Titanium development platform. Both companies are also working to expand their capabilities to include a broader range of integrated commerce capabilities, including, and transaction analytics and other joint integrations. A demonstration of Titanium+Commerce is now available and will be made available in early 2011 as ready-to-use templates for any merchant to easily customize with their own branding and inventory.

Sierra Leads $9 Million Investment in Appcelerator; eBay Makes Strategic Investment

Appcelerator also announced that it has secured a $9 million round of funding. The Series B funding is being led by Sierra Ventures, with eBay Inc. participating as a strategic investor. Existing investors Storm Ventures and Larry Augustin also participated in the round. The funding will be used to accelerate growth of the company’s mobile commerce offering, investment in Appcelerator’s platform development, and expansion into new markets.

“We look for exploding markets and market leaders within those markets and Appcelerator fits that bill perfectly. They have shown vision and execution to enable developers to push the envelope with the type and breadth of mobile applications they are bringing to market,” said Tim Guleri, managing director of Sierra Ventures. “We fully expect the company’s growth to skyrocket alongside the success of its customers and burgeoning developer community.”

Appcelerator Now Second Largest Apple App Store Publisher

Appcelerator’s traction with developers, agencies, and businesses continues to grow at a rapid pace. Over 77,000 developers have used Appcelerator’s Titanium platform to build 5,000 mobile and desktop apps, up from just 100 at the start of this year. The current pace exceeds 1,000 new applications per month and the company is now the second largest publisher of applications on Apple’s App Store.

“The strong support we are seeing from our venture investors and eBay, together with Appcelerator’s rapid growth clip, underscores the market need for sophisticated, yet easy-to-build applications that run on any platform,” said Jeff Haynie, CEO of Appcelerator. “Appcelerator will continue to expand our platform offering across the major operating systems and devices and to enable developers to easily integrate value-add commerce, location, social, advertising, and enterprise capabilities into their applications.”

Availability and Free, Limited Trial

Titanium+Commerce will be available in the second half of 2011 to Appcelerator’s developers worldwide as part of its Professional and Enterprise subscriptions. A free, 30-day trial of PayPal’s Mobile Payment Library for Titanium is available today. For more information and to view a video demo, visit http://www.appcelerator.com/products/titaniumcommerce/.

About Appcelerator

Appcelerator enables web developers, ad agencies, ISVs, and enterprises to take advantage of the explosive growth in mobile, desktop, and iPad applications. The company’s flagship offering, Titanium, is the only open source platform to enable cross-platform development, from a single codebase, at web development speed for these three platforms. Appcelerator’s customers can leverage their exiting skills and open, industry standard technologies to decrease time-to-market and development costs, increasing customer adoption and revenues, and enjoying greater flexibility and control. For more information, please visit www.appcelerator.com.

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Appcelerator Titanium+Geo Enables Real-Time Analysis and Visualization of Geo-tagged Data
from Mobile Devices, Social Media Services and Corporate Data Streams

NEW YORK, NY – Location-Based Marketing Summit – September 29, 2010 –Appcelerator®, the leading platform for rapidly developing native mobile, desktop, and iPad applications using web technologies, and FortiusOne, the leading location analysis software provider, today announced they have joined forces to launch the first location-based analytics platform for mobile applications. The new Titanium+Geo platform, which is being demonstrated today by FortiusOne at the Location-Based Marketing Summit in New York City, allows enterprises, marketers and retailers to better understand where, when and how mobile applications are being used. Business decision makers can now dynamically measure the impact of location-enabled mobile applications and social media on their company’s bottom line.

Appcelerator’s Titanium+Geo utilizes the core location analytics driving FortiusOne’s widely-adopted GeoIQ platform and extends its robust capability to capture, analyze and visualize real-time data from mobile devices and social media services. This complete data management, visualization, and analysis platform enables intuitive exploration, sharing and collaboration around geo-tagged data.

"People increasingly expect location-specific capabilities on their cell phones and companies are trying to make their information locally relevant," said David Sonnen, senior analyst, IDC. "Until recently retailers and marketers were just guessing about the effectiveness of their content. Now Titanium+Geo gives decision makers real-time analytics that measure their mobile content’s effectiveness; making every dollar of expenditure targetable and measureable."

Titanium+Geo combines internal data (such as coupons, customer databases and location information), with external data (such as Twitter, demographic and competitive information) to create actionable data (such as running a promotion, selling advertising, or opening a new location). See how a retailer uses Titanium+Geo to understand the effectiveness of their mobile application’s demand generation and opportunities for growth here: http://www.appcelerator.com/products/titaniumgeo/.

“Our developers are creating apps that place a premium on knowing where the user is and what they’re doing,” said Jeff Haynie, CEO of Appcelerator. “Now with Titanium+Geo, we’ve lowered the barrier to entry for both developing mobile applications and analyzing the results. Developers can better target offers, cross-sell products and understand the geo-social context of their applications.”

“This partnership unites two leading technologies from the mobile and analytics markets," said Frank Moyer, CEO, FortiusOne. "It leverages GeoIQ, used by US intelligence agencies, to create the first enterprise-grade mobile analytics solution. By partnering with Appcelerator, we have solved a problem many enterprises face with mobile technology – understanding where, when and how mobile applications are being used."

Appcelerator’s Titanium platform delivers cross-platform support, enabling applications to be deployed on Android, iPhone and Blackberry with a single set of source code. With only a few lines of code, developers can automatically capture the location of all mobile events. Users can then combine and analyze massive amounts of dynamic data streaming from mobile applications with data from their enterprise systems and the 45,000 data sets in the FortiusOne GeoCommons data marketplace, enabling a better understanding of the ROI of mobile and social investments. Demand is strong: according to the Appcelerator/IDC Q4 Mobile Report, developers indicated a strong interest in using geo-analytics, with 42% saying they are currently or will soon use this type of API in their application.

Availability

Titanium+Geo will be available in Q4 2010 to Appcelerator’s 72,000+ developers worldwide as part of its Professional and Enterprise subscriptions, and on a trial basis to Community developers. For more information and to view a video demo, visit http://www.appcelerator.com/products/titaniumgeo/.

About Appcelerator

Appcelerator enables web developers, ad agencies, ISVs, and enterprises to take advantage of the explosive growth in mobile, desktop, and iPad applications. The company’s flagship offering, Titanium, is the only open source platform to enable cross-platform development, from a single codebase, at web development speed for these three platforms. Appcelerator’s customers can leverage their exiting skills and open, industry standard technologies to decrease time-to-market and development costs, increasing customer adoption and revenues, and enjoying greater flexibility and control. For more information, please visit www.appcelerator.com.

About FortiusOne

FortiusOne was founded in 2005 to reinvent the way organizations leverage and analyze data for real-time problem solving. FortiusOne delivers location analysis solutions through a variety of software, application programming interfaces (APIs) and service offerings. FortiusOne’s GeoIQ is a complete data management, visualization, and analysis platform that enables intuitive exploration, sharing and collaboration around geospatial information. With GeoIQ, you can quickly and intuitively make intelligent, data-driven decisions with virtually no end-user training.

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65,000 Developers Building Top Mobile Apps and Apps for Major Brands and Enterprises

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIF. – September 8th, 2010 – Appcelerator®, the leading platform for rapidly developing native mobile, desktop, and iPad applications using web technologies, today announced that it now powers over 4,000 mobile applications in the iPhone and Android app stores. Notably, four apps have hit #1 in their category and major brands like eBay, NBC, MTV, Jaguar, and Budweiser have developed multiple applications on Titanium.

Titanium Powers Top Apps

Appcelerator’s traction with developers, agencies, and businesses is increasing at a rapid pace. Over 65,000 developers have built 4,000 iPhone, iPad, and Android apps to date, up from just 500 since General Availability in March. The current pace now exceeds 1,000 new applications per month and the company anticipates that over 10,000 applications will be developed in 2010.

“Since the release of Appcelerator’s all native platform in March, we have seen an exponential increase in the pace of application development,” noted Jeff Haynie, CEO of Appcelerator. “Some developers are on their sixth app in just a few months, and several have seen their applications hit the top of the charts.”

Adaptive Blue’s GetGlue is an example of a Titanium-based social mobile app that is seeing runaway success across multiple platforms. Originally a top 20 social networking app on the iPhone, the media check-in application is now available on the Android phone with planned availability on the iPad imminently.

“We made a strategic choice to use Titanium early on,” noted Alex Iskold, CEO of GetGlue. “We wanted rapid, native development and we wanted to deploy to all of the major mobile platforms. With Titanium, GetGlue has a native user experience, real-time check-ins, and social integration with Facebook and Twitter. The iPhone, Android and iPad apps were built by two developers in just two months.”

Other top applications include the #1 iPad reference app (and top 25 overall iPad app), Terminology, the #1 iPad game app (dice), Swarm SG, and the #1 iPad news app, My Newspaper.

Major Brands and Enterprises Using Titanium to Engage Mobile Users

Brands are adopting Titanium as well. NBC recently released Jay Leno’s Garage and more Titanium applications are in the works for Fall release. MTV released an avatar-personalization app Jersey Shore Yourself. Budweiser, through its advertising agency and Appcelerator partner Tribal DDB, released Bud Light HFL for the iPhone and Android platforms. Top tier developer Umee built Jaguar: Driven Intelligence to provide on-the-go business information for busy executives.

Appcelerator is also seeing increased interest in mobile business applications. eBay, for example, recently released a beta of its employee iPhone app as an enterprise-wide ‘dashboard’ for its intranet services, including people and conference room directory and internal company communication, such as eBay news, videos, and events. Other popular business applications include SugarCRM, Present.ly, and Personify.

“It’s important for us to keep our 16,000 employees connected and informed wherever they are,” noted Steve Yankovich, Vice-President Mobile, eBay Inc. “Appcelerator enables us to rapidly deploy an employee iPhone application that provides useful content in a secure environment. This increases our mobile team’s operational efficiency and drives down cost.”

Appcelerator will soon unveil a significant platform extension along with other enhancements that add broad functionality to Titanium for rapid, rich, plug-and-play application development and deployment.

About Appcelerator

Appcelerator is the leading platform for rapidly developing native mobile, desktop, tablet, and other multi-screen applications using web technologies. The company’s flagship offering, Appcelerator Titanium, is the only open source platform to enable native cross-platform development, from a single codebase, at web development speed. Appcelerator’s customers can leverage their existing skills and open, industry standard technologies to create and commercialize mobile, desktop, and Web apps from a single platform, decreasing time-to-market and development costs, increasing customer adoption and revenues, and enjoying greater flexibility and control. For more information, please visit www.appcelerator.com.

Appcelerator is a registered trademark of Appcelerator Inc. Appcelerator Titanium is a trademark of Appcelerator Inc.

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Developers Favor Apple in the Short-Term but Eye Google’s Long-Term Advantages as Cross-Platform Development Becomes Number One Pain Point

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIF. – Wednesday, June 23, 2010 – Appcelerator®, the leading platform for rapidly developing native mobile, desktop, and iPad applications using web technologies, announced updated findings of its newest Appcelerator Mobile Developer Survey taken of application developers about their plans to build applications for various mobile and tablet platforms. Taken last week from a pool of Appcelerator’s 51,000+ application developers, 2,733 developers responded that Apple iPad, Android Tablet, and even HP’s potential for webOS tablets are rapidly moving these devices to the top of the mobile priority list.  This survey is posted on www.appcelerator.com/mobile-developer-survey-June-2010.

While the Apple vs. Google battle has been well documented, developers see the real battle between these two titans as near-term momentum vs. long-term dominance.  Appcelerator’s most recent survey shows these leaders staying well ahead of the pack, but a surge in popularity for developing tablet applications on both OSes suggests the battle is moving from phones to "anywhere computing.”  And with tier 2 platforms seeing flat to declining interest from developers, it’s clear that Apple and Google are now playing chess while everyone else plays catch up.

Apple Dominating with iPad, iPhone, but Developers Favor Google’s Open OS Long-Term

In this survey, Appcelerator looked in depth at 6 mobile operating systems: Apple (iOS), Google (Android), Palm/HP (webOS), Microsoft (Phone 7), Nokia (Symbian/Meego) and RIM (BlackBerry).  The report summarizes the pros and cons facing each of these players.

The leadership that Apple and Google have now in mobile is clearly translating into a long-term tussle for computing beyond the phone.  Strong interest in the iPad increased 31 points to 84% while strong interest in developing applications for Android Tablets, appearing for the first time in this survey, came in fourth behind Android phones and ahead of all other Smartphone OS vendors beyond Apple and Google.

When stack ranked, developers overwhelmingly favor Apple against other platforms for its App Store, market for consumer and business apps, devices, and near-term outlook.  However, Android comes out tops against others for its OS capabilities, platform openness, and long-term outlook. When asked in more detail, 69% of respondents felt that Android’s potential to "show tremendous adaptability, from tablets to e-readers to set-top boxes” is its greatest strength as a platform.  The potential for tablets and other devices from HP based on webOS is also Palm’s greatest perceived strength.

"Developers are rearranging their priorities to unlock the new potential that tablet computing holds,” noted Jeff Haynie, CEO of Appcelerator.  "They are experimenting with tablets as point of sale terminals, tablets as TV or other hardware control devices, and tablets as university training tools.  We’re seeing lots of interest within categories that have yet to be revolutionized by web-connected devices and in categories where embedded proprietary software used to rule.”

Porting Apps to Multiple Platforms is Biggest Developer Challenge

A second trend now emerging is the increasing problem with OS and device fragmentation.  When developers were presented with eight lifecycle stages for development, "porting apps to multiple platforms” stood out as the number one developer pain point.  In fact, the number of interested developers dropped up to 60% when asked about their level of interest in each platform’s SDK vs. using a cross-platform solution like Appcelerator Titanium.  Moreover, the fragmentation "nightmare” was the biggest stated issue for developing for the Android platform (61%), even above the threat that iOS poses Google’s operating system.

"Appcelerator’s mobile application developer base reflects both how quickly the space is growing, and how rapidly application developers’ needs are evolving," noted Scott Ellison, IDC’s vice president of Mobile & Wireless.  "IDC believes that while media tablets represent the next area for major mobile app innovation, increasing levels of OS and device fragmentation work against application developer business models.  Meeting these twin mobile application developer needs, leveraging new device types while addressing impacts of fragmentation, are central to the strategy of every major mobile ecosystem," he added.

Mobile Becomes New Mandate For Large Organizations

Contrary to popular belief, large organizations (>1,000 employees) are even more interested than individual developers in mobile:

• 60% of developers in organizations with more than 1,000 employees said they were "very interested” in BlackBerry compared to 33% overall. 
• For Android, 90% of developers in these companies said they were "very interested” in Google’s OS compared to 81% overall. 
• Interest in Apple’s iOS increases to 94% from 90% overall for large organizations.
• On the other hand, Palm webOS and Meego show more interest in smaller companies than larger ones. 

Cross-platform concerns were also much higher in large organizations.  Developers in large organizations were 65% more likely than individual developers to cite this as their top development issue.  Appcelerator’s own inbound requests are increasingly coming from large companies and brands with a strong mandate to go mobile this year.

Tier 2 Platforms See Few Bright Spots

BlackBerry, Windows Phone 7, Symbian, Palm, and Meego all saw slightly lower enthusiasm for their platforms compared to the survey taken in March.  Below is feedback from developers on these platforms:

• Palm webOS: While developers said closing the gap with iOS and Android is the biggest issue facing Palm, 60% of developers interested in webOS said that HP opening up a broad range of web-connected devices would be the platform’s greatest opportunity. 
• Windows Phone 7:  Microsoft’s opportunity is clearly in the business/productivity space, according to 58% of developers interested in the platform, while 67% of those not interested said their weak position in mobile was too much to overcome.
• BlackBerry: 57% of respondents interested in BlackBerry felt its #1 strength was its market share while 75% not interested believed competition from iPhone/Android was its greatest weakness. 
• Symbian/Meego: For Nokia, a global market opportunity was cited by 75% of developers interested in the platform as being most important, however 52% of developers who weren’t interested in developing for Nokia said that its triple platform strategy (Symbian, Meego, and Maemo) was too muddled and risky right now. 

Multi-tasking is most important new feature in iOS Phone 4

Developers were also asked to stack rank new iOS features that they are most looking forward to.  In priority order, these features are:

• Multi-tasking (73% of respondents are looking forward to this feature)
• Faster processor (58%)
• iAD (33%)
• Retina display (31%)
• Text messaging within apps (31%)
• Gyroscope (30%)
• Enhanced camera (29%)
• HD video (26%)
• FaceTime (24%)
• Gamekit (24%)
• 802.11n wi-fi (21%)

Many of Appcelerator’s developers build productivity, utility, or business applications, which favor the multi-tasking capabilities that will be offered in iPhone 4 and iPad at some point.  iAD is a favorite among smaller Titanium developers while many see the enhanced camera offering new opportunities for barcode or augmented reality-type applications.

About Appcelerator

Appcelerator is the leading platform for rapidly developing native mobile, desktop, tablet, and other multi-screen applications using web technologies.  The company’s flagship offering, Appcelerator Titanium, is the only open source platform to enable native cross-platform development, from a single codebase, at web development speed.  Appcelerator’s customers can leverage their existing skills and open, industry standard technologies to create and commercialize mobile, desktop, and Web apps from a single platform, decreasing time-to-market and development costs, increasing customer adoption and revenues, and enjoying greater flexibility and control. For more information, please visit www.appcelerator.com.

Appcelerator is a registered trademark of Appcelerator, Inc. Appcelerator Titanium is a trademark of Appcelerator, Inc.

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Cool Vendors Selected for Report are Recognized as Innovative, Impactful and Intriguing

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIF. – June 3, 2010 – Appcelerator®, the leading platform for rapidly developing native mobile, desktop, and iPad applications using web technologies, today announced that it has been named a "Cool Vendor" in Enterprise Mobility* by Gartner, Inc. Appcelerator’s Titanium platform is renowned for enabling developers to use existing Web skills to quickly and easily create rich, full-featured cross-platform applications for Android, Blackberry, iPad and iPhone.  Gartner’s 2010 Cool Vendor report recognizes "innovative vendors that may help adopters to pursue mobility objectives successfully."

Appcelerator Titanium is an open source development platform that takes the complexity and expense out of creating applications for multiple mobile platforms. The Titanium platform enables web developers to leverage their deep knowledge of industry standard tools and technologies to easily and quickly create rich, native Web-connected applications for Android, BlackBerry, iPad and iPhone devices. Appcelerator’s approach enables cross-platform development from a single codebase at web development speed, decreasing time-to-market and development costs for web developers.  Applications developed using Titanium look, function and perform as fully native apps with native UI components, native code compilation, and native access to the device’s storage, multimedia, input and geo-location APIs. 

Cross-platform development capabilities are especially important in today’s increasingly fractured mobile environment. Appcelerator’s March 2010 mobile developer survey underscored this competitive marketplace, wherein there is exceptionally high interest in developing for Android (81%) and iPhone (87%), yet iPad (53%), Blackberry (43%) and Windows Phone (34%) also show strong developer interest.

"We are pleased that Gartner recognized Appcelerator as a "Cool Vendor", which we believe underscores the importance of using native application development with open technologies to achieve successful mobility objectives," said Jeff Haynie, CEO of Appcelerator. "It used to be prohibitively expensive and time-consuming to develop and support apps for multiple mobile platforms. Titanium has truly changed the game for enterprises, enabling them to cost-effectively reach a broad brush of end customers with high quality, fully native mobile apps.  Our 48,000+ developers creating applications on Titanium are part of a groundswell of exciting and innovative mobile apps coming to market."

Beyond application development tools, Appcelerator provides cloud services to assist with application packaging, app store submission, testing and runtime analytics, the latter of which enables developers to understand who is using the application and how they are navigating it, what features they are accessing and how usage evolves over time. This application insight enables developers to effectively enhance their application for improved retention rates.

About Gartner’s Cool Vendors Selection Process

Gartner’s listing does not constitute an exhaustive list of vendors in any given technology area, but rather is designed to highlight interesting, new and innovative vendors, products and services.

Gartner defines a cool vendor as a company that offers technologies or solutions that are: Innovative, enable users to do things they couldn’t do before; Impactful, have, or will have, business impact (not just technology for the sake of technology); and Intriguing, have caught Gartner’s interest or curiosity in approximately the past six months.

About Appcelerator

Appcelerator enables web developers, ad agencies, ISVs, and enterprises to take advantage of the explosive growth in mobile, desktop, and iPad applications.  The company’s flagship offering, Titanium, is the only open source platform to enable cross-platform development, from a single codebase, at web development speed for these three platforms.  Appcelerator’s customers can leverage their exiting skills and open, industry standard technologies to decrease time-to-market and development costs, increasing customer adoption and revenues, and enjoying greater flexibility and control. For more information, please visit www.appcelerator.com.

* Gartner, Inc. Cool Vendors in Enterprise Mobility, Monica Basso et at, April 9, 2010.

Appcelerator is a registered trademark of Appcelerator, Inc.  Appcelerator Titanium is a trademark of Appcelerator, Inc.

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Volunteer Appcelerator Titanium Mobile Developers Help Response Organizations Pinpoint Location and Lessen Severity of Damage

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIF. – May 26, 2010 – Appcelerator®, the leading platform for rapidly developing native mobile, desktop, and iPad applications using web technologies, today announced that Appcelerator Titanium would power Oil Reporter for Android and iPhone. The mobile app was created for Crisis Commons by Intridea, using Titanium’s cross-platform technology. Oil Reporter enables trained citizen journalists to use their mobile phones to capture and upload quantitative and qualitative data, as well as geo-tagged photos and videos to help in the recovery effort.  Appcelerator also announced that it has started a volunteer mobile application developer recruitment initiative initially targeting its 47,000 application developers.  Volunteer developers will aid NGO organizations in building applications to pinpoint damaged areas based on Oil Reporter geo-tagged data.

The April 20th explosion aboard the offshore drilling rig Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico caused a massive spill, sending an estimated 5,000 barrels of oil per day into the Gulf. As the spill nears shore, mobile phone users can provide important eyewitness accounts to help public sector response organizations track and respond more swiftly to the crisis.

Real-time Check-ins via Smartphones

iPhone and Android smartphone users who download Oil Reporter (http://oilreporter.org/) will be asked a series of questions about their eyewitness account, including what they see in front of them, the viscosity of the oil, and whether they see injured or dead wildlife. Users can also attach a photo or video, which are geo-tagged and time/date stamped for accurate reporting, and they can tweet their data.

Government agencies that want to use Oil Reporter for gathering and reporting agency-specific data can also do so. Agencies simply log into Oil Reporter and enter their organization ID to ensure their data is filtered and captured separately on the back-end.

"With a quick-moving crisis such as the Gulf Coast oil spill, every second that oil is spilling into the Gulf counts," said Jeff Haynie, CEO at Appcelerator. "By enabling Intridea and Crisis Commons to quickly create a mobile app that lets users of today’s most popular smartphones report first-hand damage, we are hopeful that aid workers can stem the tide of this massive spill and reduce its harmful effects."

"When Crisis Commons came to us to build the Oil Reporter app, we knew we wanted to build on Appcelerator," said Brendan Lim, Director of Mobile Development at Intridea. "With Titanium, we used our web skills to build a rich, interactive native app for iPhone and Android in just a few days.  This application could not have been otherwise developed on both platforms in such a tight timeframe.  We anticipate developers will leverage Oil Reporter’s crowdsource data and Appcelerator’s open source app creation platform to create many more innovative mashups and apps that will assist recovery efforts."

Crowdsourced Data Open Sourced for New Apps

Crowdsourced data collected from the Oil Reporter app will be shared in open and accessible data feeds freely available to response organizations, academic institutions such as San Diego State University’s Visualization Center and others via www.oilreporter.org. Developers can easily import this data and use open source tools such as Appcelerator Titanium to create new tracking applications to lend in the recovery.

Call for Volunteer Developers to Localize Oil Tracker App To Scale Response to Crisis

Appcelerator announced that it will tap its 47,000 Titanium Developers to ask for volunteers to collaborate with governmental institutions and animal rescue organizations. Recruited developers will be matched up with these organizations for a coordinated joint effort to better identify hotspots for crisis mitigation and protection of the natural environment, wildlife, etc.  For example, Oil Tracker, a complementary heat map app that will be made available for iPhone, Android, and iPad leverages Google Maps and Oil Reporter wildlife data to show where there is the greatest concentration of dead or dying wildlife.  Oil Tracker is being open-sourced to the development community along with Oil Reporter.

Using crowdsourcing on the front end and a mobilized development effort on the backend enables an effective, online data collection and dissemination mechanism, so that organizations can have better insight and make better decisions to assign task forces to handle such a crisis.  This level of collaboration by crisis response organizations, such as Crisis Commons, governmental agencies, technology vendors, and developers represents a bigger, broader effort at how harnessing technology can enable a more effective response to a national crisis.

To further support the recovery effort, Appcelerator will donate 100% of the first month’s proceeds to the National Wildlife Federation for any developer who signs up for a Titanium Professional subscription. Developers need only sign up at http://bit.ly/aPiglu and use promo code: "savethegulf". Appcelerator is now taking volunteer developer signups to customize building a mashup with Oil Reporter through the following website: http://bit.ly/bJPP01.  Volunteers will be matched up with other NGO organizations over the next few weeks.

About Appcelerator

Appcelerator enables web developers, ad agencies, ISVs, and enterprises to take advantage of the explosive growth in mobile, desktop, and iPad applications.  The company’s flagship offering, Titanium, is the only open source platform to enable cross-platform development, from a single codebase, at web development speed for these three platforms.  Appcelerator’s customers can leverage their exiting skills and open, industry standard technologies to decrease time-to-market and development costs, increasing customer adoption and revenues, and enjoying greater flexibility and control. For more information, please visit www.appcelerator.com.

Appcelerator is a registered trademark of Appcelerator, Inc.  Appcelerator Titanium is a trademark of Appcelerator, Inc.

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Web Developers Empowered by Titanium Mobile to Create Native BlackBerry Applications

WES 2010, ORLANDO, FL. – Wednesday, April 28, 2010 – Appcelerator®, the leading platform for rapidly developing native mobile, desktop, and iPad applications using web technologies, today announced Titanium beta support for the BlackBerry platform. Web developers already use Titanium to create rich native applications for the iPhone, Android and iPad. With today’s announcement, Appcelerator expands its cross-platform solution to include BlackBerry – the nation’s top-selling smartphone.

According to a March 2010 survey (www.appcelerator.com/mobile-developer-survey/) taken by Appcelerator, 43% of developers are interested in creating applications for BlackBerry. That’s a two-fold increase in just two months, during which time RIM saw a significant increase in awareness of next-gen platform capabilities, in particular the number of rich APIs available to developers to create new applications.

“Many of our developers, large and small have been eagerly anticipating BlackBerry support,” said Jeff Haynie, CEO of Appcelerator. “With the BlackBerry Beta, Titanium developers gain a full-featured, rich environment for creating native apps that leverage BlackBerry’s enhanced smartphone capabilities. We are delighted to offer Titanium developers native support for yet another platform on which to showcase their innovative apps.”

The Titanium platform enables web developers that lack Java or Objective-C knowledge – the languages required for Android, BlackBerry, iPad and iPhone development – to create native apps quickly and easily using the JavaScript knowledge they already have. Apps made with Appcelerator’s Titanium platform look, function and perform as fully native apps with native UI components, native code compilation, and native access to the device’s storage, multimedia, input, and geo-location APIs.

Interest from the Enterprise

While first generation mobile apps focused heavily on games and entertainment, Appcelerator’s January 2010 developer survey (www.appcelerator.com/tabletappwave/) indicates increasing developer interest in enterprise-type applications. Titanium developers now say business/productivity applications is the number one category of apps they would like to create. This sentiment is echoed by Appcelerator clients such as Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC), a leader in providing technology-enabled solutions and services, which is looking forward to leveraging Titanium to build rich BlackBerry apps for its customers.

“CSC’s customers are interested in all of the capabilities the latest generation of BlackBerry devices offer,” said Jim Petrassi, managing director for systems integration and development at CSC. “We have already been using Titanium for iPhone development, and we are very much looking forward to expanding that offering to include rapid BlackBerry development on Titanium for the enterprise.”

BlackBerry Beta Program

With today’s announcement, Titanium Professional subscribers will be able to access the BlackBerry Beta, which includes premium support from Appcelerator’s experts and professional training to get developers up to speed quickly. Beginning June 1st, Appcelerator will also grant select beta access to developers who can register their interest here: www.appcelerator.com/blackberry-beta.

About Appcelerator

Appcelerator enables web developers, ad agencies, ISVs, and enterprises to take advantage of the explosive growth in mobile, desktop, and iPad applications. The company’s flagship offering, Titanium, is the only open source platform to enable cross-platform development, from a single codebase, at web development speed for these three platforms. Appcelerator’s customers can leverage their exiting skills and open, industry standard technologies to decrease time-to-market and development costs, increasing customer adoption and revenues, and enjoying greater flexibility and control. For more information, please visit www.appcelerator.com.

Appcelerator is a registered trademark of Appcelerator, Inc. Appcelerator Titanium is a trademark of Appcelerator, Inc.

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Appcelerator Titanium Tablet edition is first to support iPad’s native user experience capabilities.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIF. — Monday, April 5, 2010 – Appcelerator®, the leading platform for rapidly developing native mobile, desktop, and iPad applications using web technologies, announced today that it has launched support for iPad as part of a newly introduced Titanium Tablet SDK. Titanium Tablet will be the first to enable web developers to quickly build native iPad applications that feature native performance, native iPad user interfaces, and native access to iPad’s device capabilities. Appcelerator estimates that developers can save up to 80% of the time it takes to develop an iPad application using Titanium vs. writing an application in Objective-C. Titanium Tablet will be freely available within Titanium, which is licensed under the Apache 2 open source license.

Enabling a Native iPad User Experience

When Apple announced the iPad in January, the focus was on user experience capabilities that build on, yet make iPad distinctly unique from its successful iPhone predecessor. New user interface controls such as split views and popovers enable iPad-specific interfaces that adapt to different uses such as portrait or landscape viewing. These user experience elements build on inherited user interface elements that have become the hallmark iPhone experience. With the introduction of Titanium Tablet, Appcelerator is enabling 100% pure native iPad development, including all of iPad’s user interface elements. Titanium is the first cross-platform solution to do so. Going forward, Appcelerator expects to add to these capabilities as Apple makes advances in user interface design that further define the iPad as a new mobile category.

“Appcelerator is synonymous with native application development. Our customers place a premium on delivering applications with native performance, native user interface design, and native access to the underlying device capabilities,” explained Jeff Haynie, CEO, Appcelerator. “We’re pleased to enable our 35,000 web developers to build native iPad applications with the full complement of Apple’s iPad capabilities.”

Introducing Titanium Tablet

Titanium Tablet joins Titanium Mobile and Titanium Desktop SDKs as part of the Appcelerator Titanium product line. Web developers can download the upgrade to Titanium today and start building native iPad applications using their Javascript skills. Titanium Tablet includes the iPad simulator and aids developers in testing and packaging their application for submission to Apple’s App Store. Appcelerator has updated its “Kitchen Sink” reference application for the iPad, which showcases the code and live examples of over 200 APIs available to iPad developers.

Appcelerator has also added iPad support to its recently-introduced Titanium Professional and Enterprise subscriptions. Developers can add application analytics to their iPad applications to analyze user, session, and customer events. As well, the company is extending the premium support including in the subscription to include iPad-specific questions.

To learn more and download Titanium for free, visit www.appcelerator.com.

About Appcelerator

Appcelerator enables web developers, ad agencies, ISVs, and enterprises to take advantage of the explosive growth in mobile, desktop, and iPad applications. The company’s flagship offering, Titanium, is the only open source platform to enable cross-platform development, from a single codebase, at web development speed for these three platforms. Appcelerator’s customers can leverage their exiting skills and open, industry standard technologies to decrease time-to-market and development costs, increasing customer adoption and revenues, and enjoying greater flexibility and control. For more information, please visit www.appcelerator.com.

Appcelerator is a registered trademark of Appcelerator, Inc. Appcelerator Titanium is a trademark of Appcelerator, Inc.

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