Smartphone App Developing Service, Yappli Provider, Fastmedia Raises 30M Yen / Cnet Japan

Fastmedia announced 30 million yen of fundraising from Yahoo Japan's investing arm, YJ Capital.  Along with the announcement, the company officially launches Yappli, native application developing service for iOS which has been provided to a closed users.

Yappli is a service allowing users to build a smartphone app written in native codes and to apply for App Store by simple processes such as drag and drop, image upload, and text input on its dedicated CMS. ...

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Cnet Japan 4/23/2013 [jp]

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• Yappli has various functions including commerce, push alert, GPS search, and social sharing. Users pay a monthly fee starting from 19,800 yen per month. There would be a huge potential for the service because there are many companies who have a web site but no mobile app.
• http://yapp.li/