[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 ...

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.

OpenCandy, the startup that tries to offer bundled applications that you might actually want to use, has added Joe Kraus, founder of Excite, JotSpot, and DigitalConsumer.org, to their board. Kraus is ...

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 ...

OpenCandy is a well-funded, San Diego-based startup in the business of software recommendations. You know the drill, when you install software and it asks you ...

SweetLabs, formerly known as OpenCandy, has launched a new cross-platform app technology that brings the user experience of mobile apps to PCs. Pokki apps run on the desktop in a small bar on the ...

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 ...

Some of the greatest companies have been started by two partners, such as Microsoft, Google and Hewlett-Packard. But what about six partners? Well, this is the case with OpenCandy, which develops ...

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, ...

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 ...

Amark found OpenCandy on a PC, and asked the Utilities forum if it’s malicious. There’s some controversy about OpenCandy. It’s certainly unwanted advertising. OpenCandy is an ad server that developers ...

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 ...