Mobile App Marketplace Verious Announces New Platform, Partnerships & Developer Network

Mobile component marketplace (and Disrupt finalist) Verious is announcing the launch of its App Services platform and Mobile Developer Network today, as well as a number of new partnerships. With the new platform, the company is introducing several pre-built software modules created with APIs from its new partners, which can be used by app developers in their mobile applications.
This platform includes components from partners like CityGrid Media, The Sports Network and Weather Decision Technologies, whose data has been included in the software components.
According to Verious CEO Anil Pereira, the moves represent Verious? evolution into supporting enterprises and service providers targeting mobile as a growth area.
?After our launch out of beta, we received a ton of interest from larger companies?everyone is trying to crack the mobile opportunity,? Pereira explains. ?So we started to focus on ?supply? from larger companies while still keeping the ?demand? and distribution side of the equation focused on the broader universe of mobile developers (the independent ?app store? developers as well as enterprise developers at larger companies). Add to this the millions of web developers that are going mobile and you have a pretty big demand side,? he says.
The first new components being introduced today include Local Search and Branded Store Locators, both built using CityGrid?s APIs, Sports News (from The Sports Network), and Weather Conditions and Forecasts (from Weather Decision Technologies).

Like mobile backend services, the idea in providing these modules is to help developers speed time to market by providing bits of commonly used software code, so they don?t have to write their own.
For developers attempting to build cross-platform applications, time saved is maybe one of the biggest benefits in using pre-built code. Had they wanted to build similar modules themselves, Pereira explains, a lot more work would be involved:
?A developer would first need to understand the schema, f