GetJar is an independent mobile phone
app store
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founded in
Lithuania
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in 2004, with offices in
Vilnius
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, Lithuania and
San Mateo, California
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.
History
The company was founded by Ilja Laurs in 2004, who is currently its Executive Chairman and Chris Dury is the CEO.
Accel Partners
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and
Tiger Global Management
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Background and histo ...
are among the investors.
GetJar was started by developers for developers in 2004 as an app beta testing platform. The platform started making free apps available in early 2005.
In February 2014, GetJar was acquired by
Sungy Mobile. Sungy is based in
China
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and is said to have paid over $5 million in cash and the then market value of $35 million in Sungy stocks.
As of early 2015, the company provides more than 849,036
mobile app
A mobile application or app is a computer program or software application designed to run on a mobile device such as a phone, tablet, or watch. Mobile applications often stand in contrast to desktop applications which are designed to run on d ...
s across major mobile platforms including
Java ME
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,
BlackBerry
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,
Symbian
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,
Windows Mobile
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Its origin dated back to Windows CE in 1996, though Windows Mobile itself first appeared in 2000 as Pock ...
and
Android and has over 3 million downloads per day. GetJar allows software developers to upload their applications for free through a developer portal. In June 2010, about 300,000 software developers added apps to GetJar resulting in over one billion downloads. In July 2011, GetJar had over two billion downloads.
GetJar has been known to host many apps in the past that were compromised with viruses, such as Android:Plankton
UP[
.]
See also
*
List of digital distribution platforms for mobile devices
References
External links
Official websiteMobile
*
{{Software digital distribution platforms
Mobile software distribution platforms
Android (operating system) software
Lithuanian brands
Internet properties established in 2004
Companies based in Vilnius
Lithuanian companies established in 2004