Software installation wrapper OpenCandy argues that it's still lucrative to make desktop apps and points to one billion installs as the proof. Senior writer Seth Rosenblatt covered Google and security ...

[Updated 1/14/2010, 9:37 am. See Below] Darrius Thompson tells me he’s been involved for a long time in the software community, and he sees how consumer acceptance can be fluky. Some new software ...

SAN DIEGO & SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--OpenCandy today announced that Nitro PDF Software, the company behind the first true Adobe® Acrobat® alternative and the world’s most popular free PDF ...

OpenCandy is a new company that serves recommendations to you when you are downloading software. It offers up suggestions of other software you may be interested in, based on your tastes. For example, ...

We don't write much about old boring installable software here on Webware. We're not about that. But a new company, OpenCandy, is taking a proven Web 2.0 model--the ad network--and applying it to ...

OpenCandy co-founder Darrius Thompson confirms in an e-mail that the San Diego-based startup, which operates a kind of online marketplace for open-source software, just raised $5 million in a series B ...

If you’re a Windows user, there’s a good chance you’re familiar with the concept of bundled software — you download an application you want, launch the installer, hit the “Next” button a few times, ...

Ah, the Windows install process. Long associated with repeated clicking of the “Next” button, it’s also home to one of the more shady practices to exist in modern software: the bundled application.

San Diego-based OpenCandy, which is developing products to help software publisher increase downloads and sales of their products, said Thursday that it has signed up PDF software firm PrimoPDF as a ...