Canalys reckons Q1 2011 smartphone sales grew 83% to 101 million
Android winning, but Apple and Samsung bada rising too
Samurai II, Chop Chop Tennis and Battle Bears in first wave of Unity Union games for PlayBook
Five native titles due in the summer
TeePee Games partners with Predictive Intent to launch Geronimo discovery platform
Targets Android, Facebook and web
Nokia unsuccessfully hawked MeeGo to HTC, RIM, Samsung and Motorola
Rivals were afraid of Nokia's control
App industry to hit 44 billion cumulative downloads by 2016
Growth of Android and Windows Phone 7 to push take up
App revenues to hit $3.91 billion in 2011 as Apple snaps up 75% share
Market as a whole up 65.7% from 2010
Samsung Apps unveils carrier billing across Europe and Asia
App store taps into phone bill or PAYG balance
Apple blocks user reviews for games downloaded with promo codes
Just when you thought things had settled down...
May 6 deadline for 2011 Meffys Awards nominations nears
Extravaganza on July 7 draws ever closer
Firemint's Rob Murray: Joining EA can only lead to us producing better games
Developer needs help 'in order to win'
Glu Mobile enters into publishing partnership with Blammo Games
Two titles promised over next 12 months
THQ Wireless completes final full fiscal year with FY11 sales of $5.4 million, down 52%
Currently just servicing Apple App Store
Tapjoy promotes Android app discovery with App Wars event
Hooks up with Apsalar as part of Google I/O on May 10
Firemint buyout designed to boost our creative leadership on mobile, claims EA's Barry Cottle
Fusing EA's scale with Firemint's ingenuity
Glu sees Q1 2011 revenues drop 5%, but smartphone revenue up 94% sequentially
Does 20 million Android and iOS install during quarter
Fluik Entertainment's Office Jerk hits 1.6 million downloads in first 4 days
Tops free charts in 23 countries
Lunaforte's Lunagames XXL bound for iOS as series hits 1 million DAUs
Three releases launch on App Store
EA acquires Firemint for undisclosed fee
Deal to be closed within next 4 weeks
RIM and Microsoft partner up to integrate Bing into BlackBerry
Search and maps incoming
Russian tech blogger Murtazin pegs Windows Phone 7 sales at 674,000 in 2010
Brands platform 'absolute failure'
Mobage meets i-mode as NTT DoCoMo links up with DeNa's mobile social network
App to come pre-installed on handsets
Nokia world's largest mobile vendor with 29.2% share, but Apple's quota almost doubles
Worldwide mobile shipments up 19.8% in Q1 2011
DeNA celebrates record breaking 2010 as annual sales double to $1.38 billion
Q4 2010 net sales hit $393 million, up 67.5 percent
Coin Drop! and Sword & Sworcery EP Micro are top-reviewed iOS games for April
Critical acclaim
Glu signs deal with best-selling author James Frey to serve up novels as mobile games
Titles bound for smartphones and tablets
Microsoft launches API mapping tool to aid iOS developers port to WP7
Guide also on offer
10 things we learned from AppNation 2011
The state of the union
PG.biz week that was: Tapjoy tames for Apple, Nokia to serve up 'next iPhone', the real value behind GREE's OpenFeint buyout, and AppNation chatter aplenty
The past seven days' news compressed bite-sized
Opinion: Is Apple the App Store's honest gatekeeper or is it running a protection racket?
You may kiss the ring
Strong sales of Verizon's iPhone 4 hand Apple 14% share in US
Firm edges ahead of HTC, Motorola and RIM
Motorola ships 250,000 Xoom tablets in Q1 2011, 4.1 million smartphones
Net revenues up 22% year-on-year
Quality Index: The week's best iPhone games - Sword & Sworcery EP Micro, Gears, Flick Kick Chelsea
Critically acclaimed
Scoreloop serves up operator-branded social platform for Hong Kong's CSL
Going white label
GREE bought OpenFeint for 368 times annual revenue
Games network made just $282,500 in revenue in 2010
Gameloft sales hit 39.5 million euros in Q1 2011, up 20% year-on-year
Europe makes up 33% of all sales
Apple's move against app incentivisation will force developers to up their game, claims OfferMobi CEO Howie Schwartz
Apple a force for good
AppNation 2011: Some incentivised players are good in the longterm; some aren't says W3i
#appnation Is Apple's tar brush too wide?
Developing on iPhone's a gamble, but crowd funding builds fanbases reckons Bravado Waffle's Stephen Dick
Fans + funds = win win
AppNation 2011: Android devs need to use all available markets says Google mobile director Jason Spero
#appnation Follow your consumers
AppNation 2011: OpenFeint and ngmoco pleased about Apple's Tapjoy incentivisation ban
#appnation Gaming the App Store is bad
Angry Birds hits 140 million downloads
Up 40 million since mid-March
Freemium releases make up 40% of all downloads on App Store
99.9 million downloads of free games in March
Zynga acquires UK based GodFinger studio Wonderland Software
Becomes firm's first British development house
Android Market to be as large as App Store on iPhone by July
Google's marketplace growing at pace
Polarbit's Tommy Forslund on why developing for Xperia Play is a breeze
Phone's play on PlayStation won't confuse consumers
OpenFeint teams up with The9 to launch mobile social network in China
The9 Game Zone is go
BSQUARE serves up mobile development platform for next-gen Snapdragon chipset
New MDP ready to go
GetJar integrates Facebook Connect into revamped portal
Looking to foster friend recommendations
AppNation 2011: Tapjoy defends incentivised downloads as being very efficient for quality apps
#appnation Part of an organic ROI marketing plan
AppNation 2011: Barnes & Noble and Amazon focus on customers not the app
#appnation Reversing conventional wisdom