Apkudo is an Android innovation company that optimizes user experience and performance across the industry’s most comprehensive portfolio of Android devices and applications. Apkudo’s mission is to help the Android ecosystem overcome the major challenge inherent in the open nature of the Android platform: fragmentation. Visit us at booth #605/606 to learn more about how Apkudo is helping App Developers, OEMs, and Operators overcome the dreaded F word.

Barnes & Noble, Inc., the world's largest bookseller and a Fortune 500 company, operates 703 bookstores in 50 states. Barnes & Noble College Booksellers, LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Barnes & Noble, also operates 637 college bookstores serving over 4.6 million students and faculty members at colleges and universities across the United States. Barnes & Noble conducts its online business through Barnes & Noble.com, one of the Web's largest e-commerce sites, which also features more than two million titles in its NOOK Bookstore™. With its NOOK devices, both NOOK Tablet and the award-winning NOOK Color™, built on Android, customers gain access to Barnes & Noble's expansive NOOK Store™ of more than 2.5 million digital titles – including a wide array of high-quality apps along with books, magazines and more. The NOOK Developer program enables content providers and the developer community to market and sell their content and applications to millions of Barnes & Noble customers. Barnes & Noble invites developers to sign up, learn more and submit their content and apps at www.bn.com/NOOKdeveloper.

A global leader in wireless innovation, BlackBerry® revolutionized the mobile industry when it was introduced in 1999. Today, BlackBerry aims to inspire the success of our millions of customers around the world by continuously pushing the boundaries of mobile experiences. Founded in 1984 and based in Waterloo, Ontario, BlackBerry operates offices in North America, Europe, Asia Pacific and Latin America. For more information, visit www.blackberry.com.

Black Duck Software is the leading global provider of products and services for accelerating software development through the managed use of open source and third-party code. Black Duck(tm) enables companies to shorten time-to-market and reduce development and maintenance costs while mitigating the risks and challenges associated with open source reuse, including hidden license obligations, security vulnerabilities, unsupported open source and version proliferation. The company is headquartered near Boston and has offices in San Francisco, Amsterdam and Hong Kong, as well as distribution partners throughout the world.

Millennial Media is the leading independent mobile advertising and data platform. Our technology, tools and services help app developers and mobile website publishers maximize their advertising revenue, acquire users and gain audience insights. Our platform also enables us to offer advertisers powerful Mobile Audience Solutions (MAS) that utilize our significant scale, sophisticated targeting and uniquely engaging creative capabilities to deliver meaningful results.

Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ: QCOM) is the world leader in 3G and next-generation mobile technologies. For 25 years, Qualcomm ideas and inventions have driven the evolution of wireless communications, connecting people more closely to information, entertainment and each other. Today, Qualcomm technologies are powering the convergence of mobile communications and consumer electronics, making wireless devices and services more personal, affordable and accessible to people everywhere.

Named "Best Mobile Ad Network" at the 2012 Mobile Excellence Awards, Airpush is on a mission to redefine mobile advertising for publishers and advertisers. Over 50,000 apps and 2,000 advertisers rely on Airpush to deliver the industry's highest performance, driven by exceptional ad formats and targeting technology. Founded in 2011 by mobile advertising veterans, the company has approximately 100 employees and offices in Los Angeles and Bangalore. For more information, visit www.airpush.com or follow us on Twitter @AirpushAds.

Zypr is a new voice-powered, unified software platform and API (Application Programming Interface) bridging the disparate worlds of mobile devices, PCs, Web apps, consumer electronics and automotive telematics. The Zypr API provides a consistent way for developers to access voice UI, maps and routing, local search, social networking, music and radio, video and TV, contacts, calendar and weather from multiple content providers. Zypr is a set of RESTful cloud APIs organized by content service category with a free license.

StartApp had introduced a new payment model to Android developers – Get paid for every download you generate. Using the powerful search revenue model allows us to provide Android app developer a fixed, guaranteed payment for every app download they generate. The same search model also allows us to help developers distribute and market their apps to Android users in a highly targeted and unique ad placement. We invite all app developers to join over 3500 apps already using our platform with more than 150,000,000 installs to date and see for themselves the huge revenue potential their free apps have. See you in December 2012!

Symantec is a global leader in providing security, storage, and systems management solutions to help consumers and organizations secure and manage their information and identities. Symantec software and services protect against more risks at more points, more completely and efficiently, enabling confidence wherever information is used or stored. Symantec provides organizations with security and management through its endpoint security, messaging security, application security and security management solutions. In addition, Symantec's encryption products, now including PGP, enable organizations to deliver comprehensive data protection with proven standards-based technology. With its acquisition of VeriSign's identity and authentication technology, Symantec provides capabilities for protecting information and identities online so that customers can be assured that websites are authentic and secure. Symantec Hosted Services uses the power of cloud computing to provide essential protection while virtually eliminating the need to manage hardware and software on site. More information is available at www.symantec.com.

Founded in 2007, uTest provides in-the-wild testing services for web, desktop and mobile applications. By leveraging a community of more than 50,000 professional testers from 183 countries, uTest helps companies test their products under real-world conditions. Thousands of companies – from startups to global enterprises such as Google, Microsoft, AOL and Hasbro – turn to uTest to complement the lab testing they do, and to help them launch better apps. uTest’s services span the entire software development lifecycle, including functional, usability, security, localization and load testing. Headquartered near Boston, with offices in Silicon Valley, London and Tel Aviv Seattle and NYC, uTest has raised over $37MM in funding and consistently generates triple-digit annual revenue growth. uTest won the American Business Association’s “Most Innovative Company of 2011” award, and was named a “Best Place to Work” by the Boston Business Journal two years in a row. For more information, please visit www.utest.com or http://blog.utest.com.

Xamarin was founded in 2011 with the mission to make it fast, easy and fun to build great mobile apps. With more than 500 downloads a day, Xamarin’s products are used by individual developers and companies including VMware, Target, Rdio, Medtronic and Unity Technologies to simplify creation and operation of high-performance, cross-platform mobile consumer and corporateapplications targeting phones, tablets and embedded devices running iOS, Android and Windows. For more information visit http://xamarin.com. Follow Xamarin on Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube, RSS, Twitter and Xamarin Blog.

The Amazon Mobile App Distribution Program enables mobile app developers to make their apps available for sale to millions of customers on Amazon and Kindle Fire, the #1 best-selling product on Amazon.com since its launch. Our easy-to-integrate services help you find new customers, keep your customers engaged, and monetize your app. Join now to submit your apps, to integrate Amazon’s In-App Purchasing and GameCircle APIs, and to localize your game for international distribution.

AppLovin has built an innovative platform that allows brands to re-target to their consumers across any screen type (ie, iOS, Android, tablets, TV, web) and additionally allows them to acquire new customers that have a profile similar to the profiles of their best existing customers. The company is a fast growing startup based out of Palo Alto with new sales offices in San Francisco and New York. We are currently helping 1000s of Android applications monetize their inventory and our hyper-targeting platform is leading to industry leading CPMs and near 100% fill rates. For more information please visit www.applovin.com or email us at info@applovin.com.

GREE is a global mobile social gaming company at the forefront of mobile technology. GREE is focused on building the world's leading mobile social gaming ecosystem for users and developers, while creating and supporting unique free-to-play game content. GREE is continuing to expand globally and has offices in Tokyo, San Francisco, London, Singapore,Seoul, Beijing, Amsterdam, Dubai, Sao Paolo, and Vancouver.

Rightware® is the market leader in 3D User Interface technology, serving mobile, automotive and other embedded industries with its Kanzi® solution for rapid 3D user interface design and deployment. Rightware has introduced the world’s first commercially available stereoscopic 3D (S3D) UI solution for embedded devices. Rightware also develops industry leading system performance analysis tools and its renowned product portfolio includes the Basemark™ product family for various benchmarking purposes, including industry standard benchmarks for OpenGL ES, OpenVG, OpenCL, Android, Linux, and Windows Mobile performance measurement. Rightware is headquartered in Espoo, Finland and has offices in Saratoga, CA, Shanghai and Munich. More information: www.rightware.com

SecureAuth is for any enterprise standardizing user access to enforce identity governance for all cloud-based applications, mobile devices & virtual networks. Hundreds of customers, including Dish Networks, Unisys, Yamaha, Chevron, & GSA trust SecureAuth because it delivers a single, scalable, & cost-effective solution along with its relentless commitment to client success. Any company growing its digital initiatives by adopting cloud & mobile technologies must consider SecureAuth IdP.

Sony Mobile Communications is a subsidiary of Tokyo-based Sony Corporation, a leading global innovator of audio, video, game, communications, key device and information technology products for both the consumer and professional markets. With its music, pictures, computer entertainment and online businesses, Sony is uniquely positioned to be the leading electronics and entertainment company in the world. Through its Xperia™ smartphone portfolio, Sony Mobile Communications delivers the best of Sony technology, premium content and services, and easy connectivity to Sony’s world of networked entertainment experiences. For more information: www.sonymobile.com

AppFlood is an Android cross-promotion network where developers buy, sell, and exchange installs completely commission-free. As opposed to lengthy 1-1 direct deals, developers can install a lightweight SDK and begin cross promoting to the entire pool of users using seamless and flexible ad formats.

Artifex’s MuPDF is a lightweight PDF renderer, viewer and toolkit written in portable C, and has been ported onto the iOS, Android, and WebOS platforms. MuPDF has a small footprint, and has been specifically designed for implementation into tablets, browsers and smart phones.

Arxan Technologies is the world leader in application protection solutions which defend applications from attack in distributed or un-trusted environments across mobile, desktop, embedded and server environments (including Android!). We defend applications against tampering and reverse engineering for unauthorized use, piracy, and theft of intellectual property. Our advanced software protection solutions preserve the integrity of code and keys in order to assure brand integrity and preserve revenue streams. We defend, detect, alert and react to attacks in real-time through a threat-based, customizable approach. Proven, durable and resilient, Arxan’s offerings support a full range of application protection needs, from commercial software to military grade assurance. For more information, please visit www.arxan.com.

Crittercism, based in San Francisco, California, is the world’s first mobile app performance management (APM) solution that offers a real-time global view of app diagnostics and app crashes across iOS, Android, HTML5 and Windows Phone 8 on over 500 million unique devices and over 25 billion app loads. Learn more @crittercism and www.crittercism.com.

Keynote DeviceAnywhere®, a subsidiary of Keynote Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: KEYN), provides a suite of cloud-based, mobile app lifecycle management solutions for planning, testing, monitoring and analyzing your apps and services as you extend your business and brand to the mobile channel. The enterprise-class, SaaS platform is purpose-built for mobile and accelerates the entire mobile app lifecycle. Today, over 2000 organizations, including half of the Fortune 100, rely on it to assure service quality and speed time to market for their mobile apps and content. Users include IT, engineering and QA departments from organizations around the world in finance, healthcare, retail, e-commerce and media/entertainment.

Google is a global technology leader focused on improving the ways people connect with information. Google’s innovations in web search and advertising have made its website a top Internet property and its brand one of the most recognized in the world.

Helpshift is redefining how companies handle customer service on mobile. Today’s customers must have a mobile-specific experience on their smartphones and tablets -- shoehorning old ticketing, knowledge-base, or telephone support systems does not work in this pivotal new channel. Helpshift is the support help desk which increases app rankings, reduces overall support time, and retains customers. Mobile development teams, from indie to enterprise publishers, can integrate Helpshift with three or less lines of code to provide customers with a full-featured support interface. Helpshift includes self-service support and algorithmic search features to reduce ticket volume, real-time notifications and messaging to drive and keep engagement in-app, and a mobile-first user experience that customers love. A web-based customer management dashboard increases multi-agent efficiency, provides a rich-media content management system, and comprehensive troubleshooting features like detailed user device information and embedded device screenshots. The company recently closed a $3.25MM seed round of financing with True Ventures and Nexus Venture Partners.

Immersion is the leading innovator in haptics (aka “touch feedback”) technology. Using Immersion’s Haptic Development Platform, Android developers can transform the UX by adding realistic vibration effects to their apps. The Haptic SDK includes sample code, tech forum, over 120 predesigned haptic effects complete with an effect preview app for testing, and a conversion layer that ensures that touch effects are optimized across all Android handsets.

Based in Palo Alto, imo is a fast growing startup co-founded by one of the first 10 employees at Google. imo is building products that help millions of people around the world connect with their friends and make new ones. imo supports 11 different IM networks and is free on the web and mobile devices. More information is available at imo.im.

Intrinsyc is a product development company that provides hardware, software, and service solutions that enable next-generation embedded and wireless products. Intrinsyc developed and sells the DragonBoard™ Development Kit and production-ready System on Module based on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon™ APQ 8060A application processor..

The MHL Consortium has created an A/V interface that pipes 1080p HD content and 7.1 surround from your cool smartphone or tablet to a really big screen with zero lag, all while the display charges back the device. What types of games are now possible? What would you do if you could view your apps on a big flatscreen TV? Light up your imagination at MHL's booth and visit us www.mhltech.org.

The leader in Mobile IT, MobileIron has been chosen by thousands of organizations that are transforming their businesses through enterprise mobility. Available as an on-premise or a cloud solution, MobileIron was purpose-built to secure and manage mobile apps, content, and devices for global companies. MobileIron was the first to deliver key innovations such as multi-OS mobile device management (MDM), mobile application management (MAM), and BYOD privacy controls.

An HP Software Specialist Enhanced Partner and authorized Support partner, Orasi also is partnered with Perfecto Mobile to provide automated testing solutions for mobile applications across multiple platforms and providers. In addition, Orasi resells HP's ALM solutions, is a leading provider of software testing services, and offers security, and cloud-based performance testing and monitoring solutions. Orasi was named HP Software's Support Partner of the Year in 2009, 2011 and 2012, and was also named 2011 Partner of the Year (US). www.orasi.com

Pluralsight is a global leader in high-quality online training for hardcore developers. The revolutionary Pluralsight training library provides developers everywhere with instant access to a rich collection of online training courses delivered by world-renowned industry authorities. Pluralsight provides flexible and cost-effective subscription plans for individuals and businesses starting from as little as $29 a month. See what you can learn at pluralsight.com and join the @pluralsight community on Twitter.

Show Media is the world’s leading provider of transportation-based digital networks. Utilizing a custom-built, Cloud-Based Content and Device Management System, we have deployed over 3,000 interactive kiosks in taxis, limousines, shuttles, buses and black cars in New York and Las Vegas and are aggressively expanding into top US DMA's and other markets in the EU and Asia. In 2011, Show Media was ranked #6 on Inc. 500 Fastest Growing Companies in America list with a 3-year growth rate of 11,748.5%. Show Media has been included on this prestigious list for three years in a row. Our client roster includes: Microsoft Bing, AT&T, Ray-Ban/Luxotica, HTC, Lionsgate Films and countless other Fortune 100

SOASTA’s web and mobile app test automation solution enables developers, QA professionals, and IT Operations teams to test with unprecedented speed, scale and precision. Our innovative solution streamlines test creation, automates provisioning and execution and distils analytics to deliver actionable intelligence faster. With SOASTA, you can have confidence that your app will perform as designed, even in peak traffic.

Tap for Tap, The Tap Exchange for mobile apps, helping app developers promote their apps & drive installs for free. Easily integrate our simple SDK to use one of our three ad types, banner, interstitial or app wall to exchange traffic with thousands of other app developers.

Founded in 2003, Falafel Software, Inc. provides the highest quality software development, consultation, and training services available. Starting initially with consulting and training, Falafel Software found itself expanding rapidly on the excellence of its engineers and the incredible sense of teamwork exhibited by everyone in the company. This common mutual respect for each other's talents has been a major asset for Falafel, causing extraordinary growth, and a level of quality that very few other IT companies can match. Employees include best-selling authors, industry speakers, technology decision makers, and former Microsoft and Borland engineers. All of Falafel engineers are Microsoft Certified Professionals, Certified Application Developers, or Most Valuable Professionals. Falafel Software also offers world-class web, application, and UI design services. Our experienced design team can help to design, develop, or troubleshoot existing systems, as well as build from the ground up. We utilize Sitefinity CMS for our Content Management System of choice, and are seasoned experts in Telerik and Silverlight UI development and Skinning.

Zypr is a new voice-powered, unified software platform and API (Application Programming Interface) bridging the disparate worlds of mobile devices, PCs, Web apps, consumer electronics and automotive telematics. The Zypr API provides a consistent way for developers to access voice UI, maps and routing, local search, social networking, music and radio, video and TV, contacts, calendar and weather from multiple content providers. Zypr is a set of RESTful cloud APIs organized by content service category with a free license.

Founded in August of 2008 and based in San Francisco, California, Airbnb is a trusted community marketplace for people to list, discover, and book unique accommodations around the world — online or from a mobile phone. Whether an apartment for a night, a castle for a week, or a villa for a month, Airbnb connects people to unique travel experiences, at any price point, in more than 26,000 cities and 192 countries. And with world-class customer service and a growing community of users, Airbnb is the easiest way for people to monetize their extra space and showcase it to an audience of millions.

App Annie is the industry leader in app ranking, app store analytics and market intelligence supporting iPhone, iPad, Mac and Google Play. Annie takes care of all the Math Behind The App Stores keeping you up-to-date with your own app's metrics and the latest app store trends.

Founded in 1807, Wiley is an independent, global publisher of print and electronic products. Wiley specializes in scientific and technical books, journals, textbooks and education materials, professional books, and subscription services. www.wiley.com

The worldwide World Wide Web — any device, any platform, any bandwidth, absolutely anywhere in the world. Opera Software was founded in 1994, based on the idea that access to the web should be a universal right. 250 million people (and counting) use the Opera web browsers for computers, mobile phones, TVs and other connected devices. Opera also delivers tools, distribution, engagement, monetization and market insights to developers, publishers and brands around the world. We are passionate about breaking down barriers, so everyone can share in the power of the internet. Our vision of one web for all remains at the heart of what we do, because we believe that participation changes everything. Opera Software ASA is listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol OPERA. ‘Opera’, ‘Opera Software’, ‘Opera Mini’ and the ‘O’ logo are trademarks of Opera Software ASA. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

Samsung Developers exists to engage with the developer community by providing the tools and support necessary to help app developers be successful, including hosting and sponsoring developer events, online tools, device loaner program, contests and meetups.

Groupon’s pioneering social commerce platform is one of the largest Rails applications in the world. We have openings for energetic Ruby on Rails developers, from apprentice through expert, to join Groupon’s Silicon Valley or downtown Chicago R&D centers. We have a proven commitment to the fastest possible turnaround for our customers, we believe in short iterations, and we have direct involvement with the business. We also believe in well-thought, high-scale architectures and fostering our internal culture of quality and craftsmanship. We aim to achieve both rocket science and rocket speed. Aided by our customized, agile development process, we’ve become the fastest-growing internet business in history. Visit: http://www.groupon.com/techjobs for more info.