The App Date Convenes First Prize for 'Best Spanish Application 2010'

The App Date convenes the first prize for 'Best Spanish application 2010'

The App Date rewards the best application made in Spain in 2010, the take-off 'was app'

• This is the first prize to the Spanish apps, a sector which in 2010 moved into our country 236 million euros.

• A jury of recognized professionals will choose the February 28, 2010 the best application among those already used 13 million Spanish.

• The App Date competition will collect applications until 31 January.

• The App Date, is the connection space, ideas, research and creativity on applications, which is held every last Monday of the month and January 31 will hold its next edition in Madrid Hub.

Madrid (12/20/2010). The App Date , the connecting spaces, ideas, research and creativity on applications, announces the first award for best application developed in our country in 2010. The year now ending has become the runway application development thanks to the growing popularity of smartphones and tablets.

Only in 2010, according to data from IDC , the field of applications in Spain moved 236 million euros, a figure around the world amounts to 3,560 million. Back to Spain according to data from IDC, there are 13 million people who habitually make use of the applications in our country and its development, research and creativity The App Date deepens every last Monday of the month in Madrid.

Now, besides continuing with the forum and monthly connection space, ideas, research and creativity on applications, The App Date released the first prize with the aim of seeking excellence in application development in Spain and its technological and economic projections beyond our borders. "We see emerging as an industry as it needs to create a national award and identify industry talent, The App Date mission," said Oscar Hormigos, CEO of Wake App , creators of The App Date. In Spain it is expected that the applications business to grow by 15% according to IDC and downloading applications worldwide increased by 150%, from 10,000 million to 25,000 million downloads in 2011.

"During our monthly meetings we have seen as the applications sector in Spain has begun its work and although it is difficult to quantify, we can speak of more than 3,000 applications for fixed and mobile environments, developed in Spain in 2010," he adds ants.

In this regard, the increased development and application usage is closely linked to the growth of intelligent devices especially mobile phones, with sales expected to exceed those of PCs in the next 18 months to reach the 462 million 2012. These figures paint what has been termed as the 'Era of the apps', an analogy of what happened in the 90 to the web but, as indicated by device usage data, to a less complicated picture.

The jury

To choose the 'Best Spanish application 2010', The App Date has assembled a jury of Joaquín Ayuso, co-founder of Tuenti , Marcos Weskamp, head desing of Flipboard , Ignacio Escolar, a former director of Public and author of Escolar.net Jose Chamorro, president of the agency JWT , and Oscar Hormigos, CEO of Wake App , which will be responsible for choosing the winning application.

The App Date Award invites nominations for developers and companies will display their work in 2010. To do so should send their proposals by January 31 the following email: award@theappdate.com

Among the applications developed in Spain EN21, andThe jury will select three finalists apps that will be presented by its creators on 28 February, the last Monday of the month and therefore the applications quoted in The Hub App Date in Madrid. Following the presentations, the jury shall make the award-winning application that comes to recognize the good work in a field that is developing.

The App Date.

The App Date, first space dedicated to networking, connection and research applications, will hold its next edition on January 31. Registrations to attend the next meeting will be opened on the website of The App Date from January measured.