{"id":35080,"date":"2011-10-02T10:40:22","date_gmt":"2011-10-02T08:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=35080"},"modified":"2011-10-03T12:07:35","modified_gmt":"2011-10-03T10:07:35","slug":"vodacom-punts-local-apps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/35080-vodacom-punts-local-apps.html","title":{"rendered":"Vodacom punts local apps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><span style=\"color: #993300;\">Summary:<\/span> Vodacom aims to boost its recently launched app store with a local app development program.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The <a title=\"Vodacom\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/227063-Vodacom\">Vodacom<\/a> Apps Store has reached 100 000 downloads in its first month, and the company is now launching a program to support local talent in applications development.<\/p>\n<p>This Vodacom Developer Program aims to create an environment of collaboration and innovation amongst the local developer community.<\/p>\n<p>The program will launch in Johannesburg on 7 October 2011 and in Cape Town on 10 October 2011. Attendance is free of charge.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Prins Mhlanga\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/368092-Prins-Mhlanga\">Prins Mhlanga<\/a>, Managing Executive of Digital Media at Vodacom commented: \u201cWe see the Apps store as the embryo of an ecosystem. We\u2019re looking forward to building a network of successful local developers, so they can help develop apps that help South Africans.<\/p>\n<p>The Vodacom Apps Store was launched on 1 September 2011, and features a catalogue of over 140,000 applications powered by Appia.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related article: <\/strong><a title=\"Vodacom app store\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/32612-vodacom-to-launch-app-store.html\"><strong>Vodacom to launch app store<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Vodacom Apps Store has reached 100,000 downloads in its first month<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":30904,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[35,5050,41,5292],"class_list":["post-35080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cellular","tag-headline","tag-prins-mhlanga","tag-vodacom","tag-vodacom-app-store"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35080"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35080"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35082,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35080\/revisions\/35082"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}