Android's daily activation rate hits 550,000 as app downloads top 6 billion
Up 50,000 in little over two weeks
Windows Phone doubles US share as ad impressions jump 31% in a quarter, reports Millennial
But Microsoft's OS remains minor player
Android developer support on the wane owing to dual assualt by iPhone and iPad
Share of new projects drops by 8%
Amazon's rumoured 9-inch Android tablet pencilled in for October launch
2 new Kindles also on the way
Freemium favourite Pocket Gems hits 40 million downloads on App Store
Holds top 10 position for 40 weeks
iOS developers on Apple's decision to hike App Store prices in UK
Bringing the UK in line, or likely to damage sales?
After the exuberance comes the loan: EA's selling $550 million stock options to pay for PopCap
Interest bearing notes to mature July 2016
Apple ups App Store prices by 14% in the UK, but Australia sees charges fall
Prices also down in Japan and Switzerland
Mobile advertising booming as number of ads served doubles in 2011 reports BuzzCity
UK up 54% from previous quarter
PopCap turned down $1 billion bid from social gaming star Zynga says source
EA's move was defensive
Tapjoy CEO Shah says Android user five times more valuable to advertisers than iOS user
Average conversion rate on the network 0.55%
Like Nokia, RIM has to deal with 6 months of transition until new OS devices ship in 2012
For Windows Phone read QNX
Smaato rolls out rich media ad SDKs for smartphones and tablets
Android and iOS on board
Future Games of London launches 18 million-strong game network to aid indie studios
Distribution and marketing on offer
VP Ville Heijari reckons Rovio is 'maybe' worth more than PopCap
Ruffling feathers
PopCap to power EA's digital business towards $1 billion in 2012 reckons Riccitiello
With Chillingo, it has 6 of top 10 iOS games in 2010
Sony announces additional $20 million to fund exclusive PSN games
To run over three years
Exit Games integrates Photon networking engine with Marmalade SDK
Cross platform connected
FreeAppADay builds on community with FunMobility's FunChat mobile engagement platform
Tapping up existing apps 5 million strong userbase
MobileBeat 2011: Microtransactions will continue to be mobile's money maker
Count the coins
Microsoft lifts lid on 4 new Windows Phone Mango handsets from Samsung, Acer, Fujitsu and ZTE
Samsung delivers first device with front facing camera
Steel Media acquires iPhone game video review site AppSpy
Moving forward
Tapjoys appoints Al Wood as app network's new CFO
Funding calls for a financial officer
Apple's UK share slides to 18% as Android takes hold at top
But users not switching away from iOS
Google rolls out fresh look for Android Market on handsets
Marketplace delivered via staggered roll out
Mobile accessory master Jawbone boosted by $70 million JP Morgan investment
Total funds touch $170 million
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[UPDATE] Is EA about to launch its own Android Store?
EA Flexion website up and running, but empty
Microsoft losing 717k smartphone users a month in US reckons asymco
BlackBerry and webOS also haemorrhaging subscribers
EA buys PopCap for a potential $1.35 billion
Takes a $550 million loan to grab the prize
Handheld market will be impacted by mobile gaming competition says THQ CEO Farrell
Yes, but less
Nielsen predicts Asian smartphone explosion as 50% of mobile users upgrade in 2011
Reckons Apple and RIM will be top cats
Tablets losing appeal as gaming devices reckons Resolve Market Research
Hitting eReader and laptop sales however
Gameloft Live! hits 4 million subscribers
Social system grows... if slowly
With an average of 3 million downloads daily, BlackBerry App World hits the one billion total
Free PlayBook game Doodle Blast has done 40,000
Irrational's Ken Levine on why he's not a Fruit Ninja guy
But thinks Vita will bridge the core-casual divide
Ex-AdMob mobile advertising start up MoPub raises $6.5 million in first funding round
Hosting 1 billion ads a month
Zynga hires Nicolas Gramlich, the coder behind open source Android AndEngine
Another brick in the wall
World of Goo, Sword & Sworcery, and First Touch Soccer are the top-reviewed iPhone games of Q2 2011
Critical acclaim
Apple rumoured to be on the hunt for manufacturers ready for iPad 3 launch in Q3 2011
Quanta and Pegatron leading the line
Windows Phone has 'gone from very small to very small' since launch, admits Steve Ballmer
But Microsoft has sold 'millions of phones'
Customer loyalty to iOS 'unparalleled' as average user spends $100 on content
Platform 'stickiness' to grow with launch of iOS 5
PlayScreens William D. Volk asks is Nokia the MySpace of mobile?
It's even failing when it succeeds
HP renames Palm as webOS global business, ex-CEO Rubinstein replaced by Stephen DeWitt
Reorg comes in post-TouchPad launch
BioShock devs depart Irrational to launch iOS focused Uppercut Games
Debut release Epoch due Q4 2011
Kiip CEO Brian Wong on why its achievement-based ad platform fills developers' Tapjoy gap
Reward, revenue and retention
Average price of an App Store paid download up 14% in 2011 reckons Piper Jaffray
Annual downloads per average user estimated at 83
Unity opens nominations for annual awards
Winners announced at Unite 11
Riptide Games and Projkt Nine merge
My Pet Zombie the first fruit
Bigpoint and Spil Games partner up to push social gaming
ZooMumba first of many Bigpoint games to hit Spil
appMobi launches HTML5 JavaScript frameworks to aid app UI
Designed to work with rival dev tools