Pakistan's fast-growing mobile application industry has marked another record as a Pakistani firm TenPearls bagged second position and received a $50,000 cash prize at Nokia & AT&T's Innovators 2011 Contest for its app Animal101.
Animal 101 is an interactive application for children and parents alike. It is a learning based application about animals that aims to teach children of 3-8 years to learn about animals by engaging them in fun and interactive games.
It was selected in the Trivia and Education category.
Competing against 800 entrants for the top spot, this is the second award TenPearls has received for its mobile apps within a year.
The first award was first prize that TenPearls received for the uTrack mobile app earlier in 2011 for the same platform in Pakistan.
The Calling All Innovators 2011 global competition encouraged app and game developers from around the world to submit mobile apps in 17 categories for a chance to share in a total of $10 million in cash and prizes.
The Calling All Innovators 2011 Contest used a blend of consumer and expert judging to determine the category winners. The judging was based on total app downloads by consumers and sales totals on Nokia’s Ovi Store.
The top 10 apps in each category (five paid apps and five free apps) advanced as category finalists and were then judged by an expert panel of judges from AT&T and Nokia.
Nokia chose this blend of consumer and expert judging to help ensure that the best apps were not only the most popular apps but also provide the best user experience.
TenPearls has plans to launch a number of new feature rich mobile apps in Pakistan for Nokia.
Imran Aftab, President of TenPearls said that his company is looking forward to building more applications on Nokia’s smart devices.
A version of this post originally appeared on ProPakistani.
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I love it. TenPearls is making some Profit. Profit is always good for health.
Although I have my reservations about mobile learning app for 3-8 years Old but Good effort and Congratulations.
why dont these IT companies go into some serious business like taking up service contract for entire MNC or international institution. instead of making silly app which believe me many undergrad students make all over the world and they do feature in world market and earn appreciation. this is an IT company not undergrad group making app for killing time
@saleem khan : There are already numerous apps on other stores as well developed by TenPearls.
What tool was the applciation developed in ...NOKIA Meaning Symbian C++???
@Hammad siddiqui: Hmm good, use of diplomatic amd media experience.
It is nice but NOKIA shouldn't be main focus for this company. If it really want to earn and become one of top application company then they must hit iOS and Android stores. Good luck.
Information Technology sector in Pakistan has been neglected badly with no minister for this important industry.
There are certain basic issues faced by this factors, if resolved, this sector only bring in massive revenue into Pakistan.
Great job. Its wonderful to see local firms competing well.
Corporate HQ is in USA not Pakistan.
Proud Being a Pakistani!!
Good job by TenPearls.