PopCap buyout will strengthen EA's casual gaming standing say insiders
Employees positive about move
Sony Ericsson posts 50 million Euro loss in Q2 2011 as Japanese quake hits shipments
Falls by 31% year on year
Android's daily activation rate hits 550,000 as app downloads top 6 billion
Up 50,000 in little over two weeks
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Ad platform inneractive integrates into Marmalade SDK
Develop and advertise
GetJar's Patrick Mork hits back over Apple's app store cease and desist: 'Steve Jobs isn't our Dad'
Forms The Open And Free App Movement
Zynga's latest acquisition is mobile enterprise and services outfit Five Mobile
15th deal in 13 months
Amazon rumoured to be readying 1.2 million tablets for Q3 2011 launch
Looking to match Nook Color
Paying GREE and Mobage users play more DS says Nintendo boss Iwata
And he's got some numbers that prove it
eBay acquires mobile payments specialist Zong for $240 million
Technology to integrated into PayPal
Social gaming platform Roar Engine drops charge for premium features
Fees only apply when DAUs top 100
Analytics outfit App Annie raises first round of VC investment
IDG Capital Partners has its stake
IGN offers developers office space and tech support with Indie Open House project
Six month residency scheme returns
W3i launches new app discovery service Mobile App Ad Network
Merges display ads with app offers