OpenFeint launches new social features on Android before iOS
Supports 700 games on platform, 24% of top 100
Flurry launches Analytics 3.0, adding audience segmentation features
Will estimate user demographics too
Breaking: Glu Mobile restructures, top execs laid off
CCO Mori and marketing chief Breslin out
Google prepares for multi-billion dollar patent arms race with Apple, Oracle, Microsoft
Information is power
Capcom Mobile plans to release at least 18 games before March 2012
Revving up the pipeline
Thanks to Smurfs' Village, Capcom Mobile sees net sales up 80% to $15 million
Division accounted for 58% of company operating income
In July, Tapjoy delivered 20 million conversions for developers, 10 million for key brand advertisers
Mobile ad network is maturity fast
Malaysian content aggregator mobile9 adds social layer for its 6 million users
Mobile9.com portal is live and viral
AppMobi's cross-platform HTML5 XDK dev tool now free on Chrome Web Store
Includes emulation and debugging
Ex-Vodafone and EA exec Tim Harrison takes new role at Sony Ericsson
Charged with driving Xperia Play strategy forward
Klaas Kersting on leaving Gameforge to launch real world mobile gaming outfit flaregames
Launching first product on iOS in late 2011
CEO Suglobov on G5's goal to become #1 mobile publisher of hidden object and time management games
New investment, more ambition
Rumours suggest Storm8's first funding round will value it at $1 billion
A mobile Zynga is born
Glu goes Google as Gun Bros hits Chrome Web Store
Contract Killer, Big Time Gangta and Bug Village also lined up
RIM unveils August launch for BlackBerry 7 OS, powering five new handsets
Part of product line acceleration program
With 16.5 million MAUs, Glu sees IAP volumes up 32% with average transaction worth $4.07
Blammo and Griptonite deals valued at up to $33 million
Snoopy goes social with Beeline as Capcom picks up Peanuts licence
Series of social games on the way
SpongeBob, iCarly and Dora the Explorer come to GameTanium as Exent signs 30 game deal with Nickelodeon
Android titles delivered via subscription service
Samsung bada shipments up 355% to 4.5 million units in Q2 2011
Android not manufacturer's sole focus
All the world's a stage: The making of Shadow Cities
The layer beneath
Zee-3's Ste Pickford on why Nintendo CEO Iwata is wrong to slate quality of mobile games
Magnetic Billiards: Blueprint hits 100 five star reviews
Finally, is this the turning point? Glu Mobile sees Q2 2011 revenues rise 11% to $17.7 million
Smartphone freemium revenue was $7.7 million
Glu Mobile thinks big: doubles internal development talent acquiring Griptonite and Blammo
Spends money to boost release schedule
Namco Bandai sees Japanese mobile game subscribers drop 8% to 2.1 million during Q1 2012
Overall company sales up 8% to $1.1 billion
InMobi buys HTML5 ad platform Sprout to push rich media opportunities
Remains independent, working with competing networks
Cloud platform Appcelerator offers $10,000 cash prize for Codestrong 2011 hackathon
San Francisco playing host to September splash
Amazon halts app submissions in Germany as Apple's 'appstore' challenge takes effect
Attack 'without merit', but approval process on hold
Australian studio Shifty Jelly pulls apps from Amazon Appstore after Free App of the Day fiasco
Claims retailer is 'rotten to the core'
Indie-focused 360iDev conference confirms its schedule
Kicks off September 11 in Denver, CO
The PG.biz Mobile Gaming Mavens on whether there are any options beyond freemium
Is grind really all there is?
Google rolls out tablet-focused Android Developer Lab days to New York, LA and Seattle
4 leg tour split over 6 days in August, September
14,000 apps strong, Amazon Appstore head Rubenson brands discoverability and monetisation as store's cornerstones
Pricing power key to firm's strategy
PapayaMobile and InMobi integrate into Corona SDK via cloud-based LaunchPad
LaunchPad to offer one-stop dev shop
Spilt Milk's Smith on how to make the most of game conferences
Evolve versus arrested development
Exit Games signs Chinese distribution deal with The9 for Photon mobile networking engine
Pushing online
Unity speeds its 3D Flash implementation, hiring expert Ralph Hauwert
Tech should be available in beta in late 2011
Groove Coaster and DeathSmiles are top-reviewed iPhone games for July
Critical acclaim
AEG's Nightfall boardgame series iOS-bound thanks to agreement with Incinerator Studios
iPad to serve as virtual table-top
Appsterdam's Mike Lee heads up indie studio collective to take on Lodsys IAP patent claim
Out to cap patent trolls for good
With a third of sales coming from smartphones and tablets, Gameloft sees H1 2011 sales up 15% to $110 million
Rest of world now is 39% of business
Despite investing more than $120m in expansion, DeNA sees FY11 Q1 net income up 45% to $123m
Reckons its $12.06 p/m users are worth 18x Zynga's
Leviathan's Van Luchene on why building the biggest library of social gaming patents doesn't mean it will trigger a legal apocalypse
Patent system encourages innovation not lawsuits
Nintendo is preparing premium DLC system for 3DS, but not a true in-app purchase platform
Won't allow freemium games either
Glu partners with TOM Group to launch glu.cn as key Chinese smartphone community portal
Will have a social gaming focus
Google, Unity, Glu, Rovio and PopCap throw their weight behind new, indie-focused Pax Dev event
Precedes Seattle-based Pax Prime on 24-25 August
HTC predicts it will ship a record 13.5 million smartphones in Q3
Shipments to rise 98% yoy
Sega Sammy looks to freemium growth with 1.3 million downloads of Kingdom Conquest
Company had troubled Q1 FY12 however
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Up 50 million in 48 days
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