IMDb's App Hits 100 Million Downloads on Eve of Major Upgrade

IMDb was one of those online pioneers that made the early Internet approachable. When it was founded in 1990, years before Google or Yahoo or even Bill Gates' "Internet Tidal Wave” memo at Microsoft, founder Col Needham understood that people were would want handy access to information about movies. 

Now those users are mobile — and IMDb still gets it.

IMDb's movies and TV apps for iOS and Android have now been downloaded more than 100 million times, the company tells Mashable exclusively, which puts it in rarified air that includes Facebook, Instagram, Angry Birds and others still counted in the dozens. Read more...