Rise in traffic prompts AdMob to launch rich media ad units for tablets
Up 300 percent in last 6 months
Microsoft readying web version of Windows Phone Marketplace for autumn launch
Due to coincide with Mango roll out
iPad CTR 8 times higher than Android, 3 and a half times higher than iPhone
Highest average eCPM with $1.75
Windows Phone delivers best conversion rate of any platform, claims Press Play's Thomas Gravgaard
But Microsoft needs to get more handsets out there
Nokia support means Windows Phone could be as big as Xbox, says Pixelbite CEO Mattias Olsen
Microsoft has proven track record in games market
Millennial Media acquires mobile location data startup Condaptive
Tech firm purchased for undisclosed fee
ZTE's first Mango based Windows Phone handsets due Q3 2011
Europe first market to be targeted
TinyCo unveils $5 million strong development fund to aid indie studios
TinyFund to target iOS and Android
Zynga reportedly preparing to file for IPO within weeks
Could come in higher than $10 billion valuation
Unity developer base doubles to more than 500,000 in 6 months
Studios clocking up over a million hours a month
Mojang's Minecraft for Android bound first for Xperia Play
Customised for Sony Ericsson's gaming phone
Nokia adds app update alerts and discovery tools to Ovi Store
Version 2.8 playing catch up
Fluid Entertainment's Office Jerk hits 6 million downloads in less than a month
Tops charts in more than 50 countries
Nexon's KartRider Rush races past 2 milion downloads on iOS
Up 1 million in last 2 months
Nokia confirms first Windows Phone device will run Mango update
OS already running in firm's labs
Microsoft confirms Windows Phone 'Mango' update for autumn 2011
Windows Phone Marketplace hits 17,000 apps
App Store hits 500,000 apps as Angry Birds holds top spot for record breaking 275 days
More than one third larger than Android Market
Samsung TV apps hit 5 million downloads, but take up still painfully slow reckons Distimo
Consumers simply not used to the medium
Apple acquires more than 200 patents from Freescale Semiconductor
Bulking up the IP armoury
Mobigame obtains international trademark for 'Edge' in video games
Langdell down
Apple tells Lodsys there is 'no basis' for threat of legal action against iOS developers
Steve Jobs can sprinkle pixie dust
XMG Studio's Ray Sharma points to the creative power of 48 hours hackathons
From internal scrums to the Great Canadian Appathon
Social publisher CrowdStar raises $23 million to double size, go global and invest in mobile
Will acquire social/mobile companies to boost growth
Apple's silence means developers should appease Lodsys says IP activist Florian Mueller
Be a coward who stays in business
AppTap launches ad network for iOS and Android apps across 20 tech websites
Developers can self-serve
Chillingo works hard, but too many publishers have become monsters says Spilt Milk's Andrew John Smith
Who Needs Chillingo? to give power back to the developer
Qualcomm improves smartphone location accuracy with support for Russian GLONASS satellites
Thanski comrade
GamesAnalytics signs up award winning data analyst Mark Robinson as COO
Tasked with maximising online game revenue
The PG.Biz Hot Five: In-app purchase panic, HTML5 love and Air Penguin's revenue rise
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Zynga continues to evolve via DNA Games acquisition
Third purchase in four weeks
Immersion subsidiary Haptify pushes force feedback on Android with games and publishing
Can you feel it?
Flexion's Jens Lauritzson says it's seeing fantastic conversion rates in some emerging economies
Also gaining 3.5 million users a month
Flexion expands into India with integrated operator billing via Indiagames
Matching big demand with micro payments
Attorney claims Lodsys has a very weak, badly drafted patent, while EFF tells Apple to front up
Troll baiting
PG.biz week that was: Backlash on the freemium backlash, PopCap's so GREE, Apple, Amazon and Lodsys love lawyers, while Verizon takes Xperia Play and WP7
The past seven days' news compressed bite-sized
Gameloft and Zynga have mutually exclusive customers says CFO de Rochefort
Warning over social gaming valuation bubble
Google launches App Galaxy guide, advises studios how to turn apps into businesses
AdMob and Google Analytics the key, apparently
iAd executive team form SessionM to 'achieve higher engagement rates'
$6.5 million raised in funding round
'App store' not a generic term counters Apple in Amazon lawsuit
Amazons Appstore isnt an app store apparently
Windows Phone 7 launches on Verizon in US with $150 HTC Trophy
Market leader adds support for OS
Qualcomm unveils iOS support for Augmented Reality SDK
Multiple operating systems in line
Quality Index: The week's best iPhone games - Order & Chaos Online, Dofus: Battles
Critically acclaimed
Prepping for IPO, PopCap launches Bejeweled-based Pop Tower meta-social mobile game on GREE
Part of emerging Asia Pacific expansion
Data-focused publisher Fuse Powered raises $2 million in initial funding
BlackBerry Partners and NFQ Ventures stump up
PapayaMobile withdraws from games development to fully focus on social network
Will open source game engine for partners
The PG.biz Mobile Gaming Mavens debate whether Android can be fixed as a commercial opportunity
Reliving the sins of the past
Lodsys should 'put up or shut up' says lawyer Jas Purewal
IAP patent claim could be landmark case
Mobile sales hit 428 million in Q1 2011 as smartphone share rises to 23.6% says Gartner
Samsung enjoys strongest quarter ever
EnsenaSoft claims it's the first company to do 1 million Mac App Store downloads
Also the larger publisher on the store
BlackBerry PlayBook sales hit 250,000 in first month reckons RBC analyst Abramsky
Q1 2011 total could hit half a million