Business Insider believes HTML5 apps are primed to overtake native apps on smartphones in the coming years. Steve Jobs was also big on webapps when the iPhone first came out—sans native app ...

HTML5 has been promised as the way to escape paying Apple its 30 percent cut of app sales while delivering apps to users, but HTML5-based Web apps have a limitation that has made the promise less ...

Evangelists say the HTML5 movement has so much momentum that it could defeat the native app — an application that is designed to run on a single platform — in as little as two years.

Apple's new rules have forced e-book sellers to remove buy links from their iOS apps. Now Kobo says it's developing an HTML5 Web app that can be accessed from any Web browser, circumventing Apple ...

Will HTML5 or native apps lead the charge for the superphone platform? Or is the conflict between the two simply getting overblown? Today at VentureBeat’s Mobile Summit, we tried to suss out the ...

Once again, HTML5 proves to be the most obvious yet reliable option for companies looking to get on mobile devices and not deal with app store entanglements.

But adopting HTML5 for mobile apps isn’t a panacea, as reflected in Forrester’s findings. In fact, one of the report’s survey responses noted that 59 percent of the time, apps developed ...

A lot has happened in the world of HTML5 since app development tool appMobi first showcased its MobiUs platform at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Most notably, Facebook's HTML5 app platform for ...

Following the launch of its own HTML5 app platform, social network Facebook has acquired app delivery network Strobe in a bid to strengthen its hand in the market. The move, of which terms were not ...

Not only is Facebook rumored to finally launch its iPad app at Apple's iPhone 5 event next week, but its HTML5 app platform could also see the light of day, according to a new rumor.

Apps that provide core features and functionality dynamically with web technology like HTML5 are best delivered to everyone in Safari, rather than through the curated App Store.

Apps that dynamically provide core features and functionality with web technology like HTML5 are best delivered through Safari, rather than through the curated App Store.