InMobi, adsmobi and YOC named as big three EU5 mobile ad networks in mobileSQUARED survey
Market value to top $1 billion by 2014
NaturalMotion CEO Torsten Reil on new iOS game My Horse and the 'massive opportunity' of freemium gaming
Six games in development
The PG.biz Hot Five: Microsoft and Adobe support HTML5, ARM's Mali-400 is the fastest, and Backflip nears 150m downloads
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Unity's Francis says Microsoft's decision to drop plug-in support for IE 10 plays into its native app focus
Will consider WebGL support though
PG.biz week that was: Microsoft wins big with Windows 8 as Nintendo takes a knock and RIM gets ribbed for paltry PlayBook shipments
The past seven days' news compressed bite-sized
Adult Swim prepares for App Store invasion with five games before December
Signs long-term dev deal with PikPok
Men out play and out spend women when it comes to mobile freemium gaming says Flurry
Average male transaction is $15.60 compared to $11.90 for women
Infinite Dreams looks to the power of social interaction to drop Jelly Defense's launch price from $9.99 to 99c
Can you Google+ it?
GREE talks up OpenFeint revamp: gamers want deeper social experiences says Jori Pearsall
Enhanced games to roll out later in September
RIM's fading fast; BlackBerry shipments fall behind Samsung and HTC reckons analyst Horace Dediu
Could end the year with single digit market share
Google moves to defend Android, buys over 1,000 patents from IBM
Patent war chest re-stocked
First non-Chinese produced iPads will ship from Foxconn's Brazil factory in December
Apple also signs long term chip deal with TSMC
Appsfire study reveals combined iOS and Android app total is 1 million
Though only 80% are currently active
Windows Phone will 'kick things to the next level' despite sluggish sales, says Ballmer
CEO full of optimism
Microsoft ditches Flash for default Internet Explorer 10 in Windows 8
Metro browser pulls plug on plug-ins
The PG.biz Mobile Gaming Mavens discuss the value of age ratings for mobile games
Age old question
RIM sees FY12 Q2 sales slide 10% to $4.2 billion, with income down 53% to $329 million
Shipped 10.6 million phones, 200,000 PlayBook tablets
As it launches freemium title DragonVale, Backflip approaches 150 million smartphone installs
Breathing fire
Zedge partners with Appia to launch mobile marketplace for 40 million monthly users
Firm becomes key distribution partner
Chop Chop developer Gamerizon raises $5 million to expand series to new formats
Expects to hire 100 staff over 24 months
Foss Patents: Motorola's four threats that secured its $12.5 billion Google deal
Buy us or we'll destroy Android
PlayBook being outshipped 19 to 1 by iPad as Apple shipments hit 9.3 million in Q2 2011
Year one PlayBook projections slip to 2.2 million
InMobi CEO Naveen Tewari on how Softbank's $200 million investment will enable it to get aggressive and go deep
Looking at China, Korea and more technology acquisitions
Itsmy repackages browser games for HTML5 to meet its goal of becoming the biggest casual mobile browser gaming company
Best of both worlds
Samsung announces Premium Samsung Apps Store for Android in the UK
Includes Zenonia, Need for Speed Shift, and 9mm
InMobi scores $200 million Softbank investment as network targets Asian expansion
Split between two transactions
Research firm Canalys: HP should reconsider ditching TouchPad
Price cut turned it into 'must-have' item
Apple wins advertising rights to 'thinnest smartphone', files new lawsuit against Samsung in the UK
ASA judges in Apple's favour
Sony pools PS Vita and Android development with launch of PlayStation Suite SDK
Linking the two ecosystems
Half a million download Windows 8 developer preview within hours of launch, boasts Ballmer
No phone or OS will ship as many units as Windows
OpenFeint appoints GREE's Naoki Aoyagi as CEO as co-founder Citron departs
Off to 'pursue new opportunities'
SponsorPay opens a Japanese office to build on existing business
Working closely with LinkShare
Real-world rewards network Kiip partners up with Verizon
Floodgates open
NaturalMotion makes switch to freemium, despite more than 8 million paid downloads on iOS
My Horse the first free-to-play release
BUILD 2011: Microsoft gives away 5,000 Samsung Windows 8 tablet prototypes in developer drive
Looking to build app roster
Nintendo would 'cease to be Nintendo' if it made a move on smartphones, reckons CEO Iwata
Not looking for short term profits
Millennial appoints Qualcomm's Isaac Babbs as senior VP for business development
Steps up after 6 years on advisory board
Location-based mobile gaming start up Red Robot Labs raises $8.5 million
Ex-Playdom outfit cashing up
XMG's Ray Sharma on why mobile is the remote control for transmedia success
Push the button, everywhere
Microsoft confirms Xbox Live functionality for Windows 8
So says the Major
Cave underlines the phone nature of PS Vita: announces it's bringing Mobage hit Build a Castle to the console
Including location-based check-in features
Qualcomm looking to release 2.5GHz Snapdragon processors in 2012
Hard-cores
Sony commits PS Vita to December 17 launch in Japan
But no word on Europe or US
Samsung take Apple battle to France, claims tech patents have been infringed
European patent road trip continues
Nvidia launches Windows 8 developer program as quad-core Kal-El powers demo units at BUILD 2011
Platform to deliver 'seismic shift'
Topdown view: Rodeo Games on the making of Hunters: Episode One
Pick your targets, level up
Kwalee's David Darling on the new challenge of making games and apps for iOS
Bringing Codemasters' experience to the mobile market
Google to optimise future versions of Android to support Intel's Atom processors
ARM is not the only choice
Qualcomm points to Snapdragon's support for Microsoft's PCs, tablets and smartphones
Architecture works for Windows Phone and Windows 8
Verizon drops V Cast to launch new Android app store with search specialist Chomp
Verizon Apps to be premium curated marketplace