GetJar is an independent mobile phone

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founded in

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in 2004, with offices in

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, Lithuania and

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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.

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and

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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

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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

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s across major mobile platforms including

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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 .

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