Kongregate adds friend challenges, and score comparisons to Arcade app as games roster tops 575
Also gets GameStop rewards
Ansca Mobile announces 5 game 99c Corona Indie Bundle for iOS and Android
17% of proceeds going to charity
HP ousts CEO Leo Apotheker after 11 months, hires former eBay supremo Meg Whitman
Position now requires 'additional attributes'
PerBlue and PlayMob join forces to raise cash for charity SOS Children via IAP in Parallel Kingdom
Wear your limited edition Buy Soup Can Hat with pride
One More Thing conference founder Anthony Agius looking to crowd fund TV show on iOS development
Show needs $25,000 for lights, camera, action
YoYo Games launches GameMaker: HTML5 beta
Now available for $99
Submissions for Smart Content 2011 Awards close 29 September
Part of the Smart Content show running 2-3 November
Appsjunction Matchmaking event taking place in London on 29 September
Aimed at developers, investors and entrepreneurs
Foursquare reaches 1 billion check-in milestone
Lights up the globe with weekly check in video
Nokia appoints research head Henry Tirri as CTO as Richard Green departs
Elop broom still sweeping
Middle class Americans poised to spend $481 per annum on Apple products by 2015
Emerging markets also to hike sales up by $68 billion
Crowdstar, BitRhymes and DeezGames on board as Spaceport 2.0 gears up for Project Spartan
Sibblingz bills engine as perfect go-to for Facebook
Buckle Up Studios boosted as developer joins Joystick Labs' small studio accelerator program
Seventh team to recieve Joystick funding
Tag Games looks to expand headcount as it gears up for first freemium release Funpark Friends
Dundee outfit on the up with new office
Korean Times reckons HTC is developing a proprietary mobile OS
But commentators suggests move could be 'disastrous'
6waves Lolapps announces $10 million 6L Fund for mobile and social games
Signals expansion into mobile games
Samsung Apps turns 2, celebrates with update including new UI, rental and trial options, and Smart recomendations
Fruit Ninja and Plants vs. Zombies go free for bada
Adobe planning 3D gaming assault with October launch for Flash Player 11 and AIR 3
Android, iOS and BlackBerry in line
Flurry SDK version 2.0 for Windows Phone released
Includes support for Mango update
4% of apps are generating 72% of all iPhone App Store revenue says Distimo
That's the proportion using IAP
Samsung looking to open up bada to rival manufacturers in 2011
External developers also thrown into the mix
Heyzap, Google and Marmalade join forces to host Android monetisation event on September 27
Top execs on board for San Francisco splash
HP to cut more than 500 jobs as webOS is wound down
The inevitable cull is confirmed
Nvidia uncloaks power efficient fifth Companion chip within Kal-El's quad-core CPU architecture
Claims Variable Symmetric Multiprocessing better than rival approaches
Amazon takes down Appstore for Android outside of US
Here yesterday, gone today
Appy's FaceFighter franchise pushes it past 10 million iOS downloads
Currently doing 20,000 downloads daily
BlackBerry adds subscription services to BlackBerry Payment SDK
Opening the freemium floodgates
Tapjoy launches in-app incentivised video ads service
Filling the incentivised download gap on iOS
Rumour: Facebook's Project Spartan reveal put on hold as giant pulls platform from F8
Dedicated event now on the cards
Veteran marketeer Bruce Everiss joins Kwalee as CMO
Back with Codemasters' co-founder David Darling
Metro apps for Windows 8 to be sold through official marketplace
Side-loading restricted to developers and enterprise
HTML5 Developer Conference announces pre-event Hackathon
24 and 25 September in San Francisco
72% of iPhone app revenue comes from in-app purchases, up from 28% in 2010
Downloads of free apps up by 34% since 2010
Verizon's V Cast store maintains highest average app price on mobile reckons Distimo
Power of the carrier
Samsung planning to block iPhone 5 in South Korea post-launch
Giant seeks home advantage
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[UPDATE] Amazon Appstore for Android finally goes live globally
UK, Europe, Australia and India all online
Qualcomm's Rob Chandhok: HTML5's adoption will be driven by business, not technology
Follow the money, not the geeks
Exit Games adds support for HTML5 and Windows Phone 7 to Photon networking engine
Photon 3 ready for future growth
Rovio thirdparty publishing rumours resurface with the suggestion it's taking a longterm approach
Brand building
Gameloft selling pre-paid cards in UK for mobile game purchases
For Android, Symbian, Java and BlackBerry
Unity's Francis says Microsoft's decision to drop plug-in support for IE 10 plays into its native app focus
Will consider WebGL support though
Adult Swim prepares for App Store invasion with five games before December
Signs long-term dev deal with PikPok
Men out play and out spend women when it comes to mobile freemium gaming says Flurry
Average male transaction is $15.60 compared to $11.90 for women
Infinite Dreams looks to the power of social interaction to drop Jelly Defense's launch price from $9.99 to 99c
Can you Google+ it?
Google moves to defend Android, buys over 1,000 patents from IBM
Patent war chest re-stocked
First non-Chinese produced iPads will ship from Foxconn's Brazil factory in December
Apple also signs long term chip deal with TSMC
Appsfire study reveals combined iOS and Android app total is 1 million
Though only 80% are currently active
Windows Phone will 'kick things to the next level' despite sluggish sales, says Ballmer
CEO full of optimism
Microsoft ditches Flash for default Internet Explorer 10 in Windows 8
Metro browser pulls plug on plug-ins
RIM sees FY12 Q2 sales slide 10% to $4.2 billion, with income down 53% to $329 million
Shipped 10.6 million phones, 200,000 PlayBook tablets