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
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
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
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
Rovio to make move on China as Angry Birds passes 300 million downloads
Up 50 million in 48 days
HTC revenues top $4.3 billion in Q2 as smartphone shipments jump 123%
12.2 million units hit retail
Mobile sales up 43% but Samsung sees drop in profits to $3.3 billion in Q2 2011
Revenues rise 4% to $37.4 billion
Manufacturers point to September for Microsoft's Mango assault
Windows Phone's next D-day approaches
Motorola Mobility ups Xoom shipments in Q2 2011 but posts $56 million loss
Tablet total sits at 690,000
Hard Lines downloads jump by more than 64,500% during free for a day promo
Big update set to follow
BulkyPix signs multi-title deal to bring library to PapayaMobile
Route into Chinese market part of the deal
PlayStation goes AWOL as Sony's Products & Services division revenues fall 18% to $9.4 billion
Handheld not worth a mention
Nintendo slashes 3DS price by 40% as firm posts $324 million net loss in Q1 2011
Revenues fall by more than half yoy
GetJar hits 2 billion downloads as app roster tops 150,000
Open approach paying off
EA CEO John Riccitiello: iPad is our fastest growing platform
Consoles have shrunk to 40% of firm's business
Samsung's Galaxy S II hits 5.5 million sales in 85 days
Fastest selling handset in company history
LG posts $51 million mobile division loss in Q2 2011 despite smartphone shipment rise
Fifth quarter loss in a row for division
With 320 backers, dev co-op Who Needs Chillingo? rebrands and readies itself for launch
Self-publishing movement unveils new website
Microsoft confirms Windows Phone Mango app submissions 'about a month away'
Time for devs to pull their finger out
Ovi Store hits 7 million daily downloads milestone
Just days after passing 6.5 million
DeNA and ngmoco roll out Mobage social network across English speaking world
Platform also makes debut in China
Android and Java game distributor Flexion adding over 4 million customers a month
Enabling one free trial every second
EA Mobile sustains solid growth in Q1 FY12 as sales rise 9% to $57 million
Overall sales also up 18% to $999 million
Pachter's 'baseless' comments on unpaid developer overtime are 'poisonous', says Spilt Milk MD Andrew John Smith
Now it's Pachter that deserves no sympathy
Apple adds 33 new territories to App Store roster, takes total to 123
From Algeria to Yemen
ARM see half year 2011 revenues up 28% to $376 million
Generated $175 million in cash
Suda 51 prepares to shake up social mobile gaming with bloodiest ever title for Mobage
Plus 100 more ideas where that came from
Sony casts light on PS Vita's revised social features including Near gifting tool
LiveArea now the focus
DeNA signs up dev stars Keiji Inafune, Suda 51, and Yuji Naka up for Mobage
Yoshifumi Hashimoto and Noritaka Funamizu also on board
Average spend per smartphone IAP transaction is $14 reckons Flurry
$1 market is an illusion
Nokia reports its app store has 50,000 apps, is doing 6.5 million downloads daily
Up from 5 million a day in April
Social and mobile game recommendation service TeePee hits 100,000 active users
600,000 suggestions served up
Qualcomm acquires gesture recognition technology and staff from GestureTek
Will integrate into Snapdragon
RIM lays off up to 2,000 staff in 'cost optimisation program'
Deep cuts
Marmalade moves on monetisation as Tapjoy joins partnership programme
Middleware tool becomes one-stop shop
Indian publisher 7Seas targets global market with 10 new mobile releases
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