Thanks to GREE and Zynga's deep wallets, mobile user acquisition costs peaked at $6 over Easter
High stake gamble?
Team Action Zone's Kari Laurila on leaving Nokia to pioneer location-based exergames
Next up GPS-based Moomin mobile games
iPad share of tablet market to slip to 46% by 2016
But Apple to remain in charge, claims Gartner
Mobile tech outfit Crashlytics raises $5 million in Series A round
Adds to $1 million in seed money
PlayFirst's iOS downloads up 85% after it goes universal
And 80% of revenue from IAP
Qualcomm invests in BlueStacks as Android App Player for PC hits its first million downloads
Million milestone reached in 10 days
In-app purchasing API now available for Amazon Appstore developers
Easy for users and easy to integrate, says Amazon
Toshiba reveals three quad-core Excite Android tablets
Trio heading to shelves this summer
Cellufun rebrands as Tylted for HTML5 mobile social assault
Name chosen by competition winner
DevUp HTML5 developers conference comes to Barcelona on 27 April
One-day event features talks, workshops and cocktails
HandyGames does 25 million downloads from Google Play
Free is key
Storm8 calls Amazon Appstore world class as it generates $700,000 in IAPs during March
It's on fire, Kindle Fire
SponsorPay beefs up publisher team with two new hires
And still hiring
Nokia Lumia 900 launches 27 April in UK
Phones4U snaps up white model exclusivity
Sony to cull 10,000 jobs as firm forecasts $6.4 billion loss in 2012
Japanese giant hit by US tax allowance charge
BlackBerry confirms BB10 Jam developers will get BlackBerry 10 Dev Alpha device
Prototype in correct form factor
W3i backs OpenUDID to stem 'enormous industry impact' of UDID depreciation
Firm looking for a standard
Opera launches iOS and Android app install tracking solution App-Tribute
Doesn't use UDIDs, MAC addresses or cookies
Unity engine tops 1 million developers
More than 6 million downloads to date
GREE invests in Japanese HTML5 tools company Wizcorp
Mithril engine will save on server costs
Facebook buys Instagram for $1 billion in cash and shares
Pays more than twice more per user than Zynga paid for OMGPOP
Nicki Minaj kick-starts Nokia's Lumia 900 launch in US
Times Square brought to standstill
The PG.biz Hot Five: In-app ads are lucrative, MAC addresses are wrong and new iPad's GPU questioned
Last week's top five stories
Real-time lighting outfit Geomerics brings its Enlighten smarts to mobile
Tech demo app expected soon
Rovio highlights value of Chinese social network, placing Weibo alongside Twitter and Facebook
Micro-blogging link within Angry Birds Space
Kontagent announces kSuite DataMine to enable better actionable data
Slice and dice your cohorts
Greening the red planet: Tiger Style on the making of Waking Mars
Delivering emergent gameplay for the iOS audience
Greystripe updates SDK with MAC address, but is working on a long-term UDID replacement
Part of industry group
New iPad's A5X chip isn't powerful enough for high-end 3D graphics, claims developer
Needs nextgen PowerVR 6 GPU
Samsung expects to report record Q1 FY12 profits of over $5 billion
Smartphone and tablet business driving success
HTC sees Q1 FY12 revenues slip 35% down to $2.3 billion
Waiting for impact of HTC One family
Shadowrun Returns hits the jackpot on Kickstarter
Grizzly cyberpunk alive and liquid
Steel Media launches Quality Index for Android
Adds to existing iOS base
Japanese social studio Ateam makes IPO
Initial share prices triple
Apple TV platform 'iPanel' to hit shipments of 12 million by end of 2013
Jeffries analyst claims device will retail for $1,250
Halfbrick adds Android library to GetJar Gold
Virtual currency system spreading base
Activision's Skylanders makes move on iOS
Toys to integrate via bundled codes
Days of Wonder's Ticket to Ride steals show at Pocket Gamer Readers' Choice Awards
Cut the Rope, Angry Birds, and Minecraft win big
Kontagent's Aaron Huang on forming MATA to solve the pain of reporting fragmentation
Streamline your data ingestion with Open API
Apple adds Twitter integration to iAd Producer
Version 2.1 optimised for new iPad
Pickford Bros pack game prototypes into Magnetic Billiards: Blueprint update
Game to become 'incubator' for new projects
Angry Birds on top as BlackBerry App World turns 3
2 billion downloads and counting
Facebook takes HTML5 test suite Ringmark open source
Looking to eradicate fragmentation
Madvertise looks beyond UDIDs with unique device detection to track across web and apps
Not a like-for-like replacement
Draw Something hits 50 million downloads in 50 days
Knocks Angry Birds Space off the top grossing spot
Flurry says Apple isn't yet rejecting apps for using UDIDs, but updates SDK nevertheless
UDIDs with user consent are fine
Glu Mobile acquires Deer Hunter brand from Atari
Will extend games to Mac, Chrome and smart TVs
Shadowrun creator asks Kickstarter for $400,000 for Shadowrun Returns
New version of RPG for iPad and Android tablets
DevCon 5 conference for HTML5 and mobile app developers returns to California
Runs 25-26 April
63.7% of Android users are running Gingerbread
Ice Cream Sandwich only on 2.9%