On today’s App Developer’s Corner, we’re talking to Adrian Ochoa President of Avantar. According to their homepage; “Avantar is a sister company to Yellow Pages Directory and a leader in local search and advertising.” The following is what Adrian had to share with us about his business and the iPhone App market.

Give us a quick overview about yourself and company.
Adrian Ochoa, President of Avantar. Previous to this I co-owned an interactive yellow pages business directory service targeting Latin America, which eventually sold to TELMEX (NYSE: TMX).

Avantar is a leader in local search with nearly 3 million downloads and delivers 8 million monthly local search results. Our most famous applications are Yellow Pages (#1 downloaded Navigation app), Showtimes (”Best Movie App” Macworld), and AirYell (local navigator). We also just launched the first Facebook Yellow Pages App and will soon expand our products to other smartphone platforms.

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Today’s App Developer’s Corner features Ronnie Schwartz of IntuApps, makers of popular applications like Swine Flu Tracker Map. The following is what Ronnie shared with us about running an end-to-end development shop.

Give us a quick overview about yourself and company.
I’m CoFounder and CTO of IntuApps, our mobile brand that focuses on app design, development, and strategy.  We’ve developed more then fifty apps and have seen great success in downloads/engagement for several of our apps, including one that hit the #1 spot in the App Store.  Since 1994, when I founded RustyBrick, I’ve been developing custom web software and technologies for businesses and organizations. (more…)