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Outfit7's Talking Friends tops 300 million downloads, launches virtual merchandise range with Iconicfuture
Brands itself fastest growing entertainment network
Apple offers official warning to App Store 'manipulators'
Threatens to remove devs employing rank boosting services
FGOL's Grabatron does 30,000 sales on Android Market in last 2 weeks of January
Promo push from Google does the business
Developer claims unnamed company offering guaranteed top 25 App Store spots for $5,000
Bots download titles over and over
Google hires Apple hardware head Simon Prakash for 'secret project'
Put to work on Motorola mission?
Motorola looks for 2.25 percent of Apple's 3G sales as German court suspends iPhone ban
Firm offers olive branch?
Amazon poaches Windows Phone dev lead Watson to head up Kindle team
Cross-platform Kindle apps the focus
Gamevil's Cartoon Wars hits Android Market as downloads top 5 million on iOS
BLUE release hits top spot in 22 countries
PG.biz week that was: Clonegate branches out beyond Zynga, Facebook likely to be valued at $100 billion plus, DeNA and GREE line up court battle and EA claims 10.5% share on iOS
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Ad exchange network Nexage passes 100 billion ad requests
Mobile market is 'rapidly maturing'
Cameron Owen's Tail Drift wins Unity's $20,000 Flash in a Flash development contest
Racer demonstrates Unity's Flash prowess
Apple pulls old iPhones from online store in Germany as Motorola wins 2 patent battles
iPhone 4S okay, 4 and 3GS now unavailable
Xbox co-creator Seamus Blackley assembles Atari old boys for 'new arcade' age on iOS
Innovative Leisure to merge youth with experience
Microsoft touts deeper integration with Xbox and Windows 8 as Windows Phone 8 expose leaks
Nokia video provides the details
RIM opens gates to Android app submissions for BlackBerry PlayBook
Offers devs free units if they make the leap
Android erodes iPhone 4S gains in December, ends 2011 with 59% global share on Jumptap
Apple's hand falls 7% in 2011
DeNA countersues social rival GREE, demands apology and compensation
Takes issue with antitrust breach claim
Kwalee's expansion continues as studio signs up Micro Machines man Andrew Graham
Former Codies programmer to serve as Gameplay Guru
Crytek looks to unite PC and mobile multiplayer with browser-based gaming platform GFACE
Different roles for different devices
Mobile entertainment firm Mondia Media appoints Avril McDonald as new UK MD
Expanding the firm's English-speaking operations
Flaregames raises 6 million euros from Accel Partners
Ex-Gameforge boss readies new company's 2012 line-up
LG's mobile division turns $10.7 million Q4 profit, but records $251 million overall loss in FY2011
Quarterly and annual sales down yoy
Facebook files for $5 billion IPO as valuation looks set to soar past $100 billion
Zuckerberg's personal fortune to top $28 billion
Two Way Media launches Poker Squares on Amazon's Kindle e-readers
In US now, coming to UK soon
Zynga generated $445 million of revenue for Facebook in 2011
Equal to 12% of social network's sales
Armor Games' Daniel McNeely on the move from Flash to mobile, and the similarities between Crush the Castle and Angry Birds
Finnish favourite 'skirts around the question'
Swiss investor Digital Capital unveils plan to finance smartphone studios
Looking to offer 'fairer deal' to devs
Apple set for more expansion as China Telecom secures iPhone 4S for February launch
Region's third largest comes on board
Localytics reckons Android is less fragmented than you'd think; 73% of handsets run Gingerbread
OS and form factor not such big issues
Square Enix's Final Fantasy Brigade passes 1 million users on Mobage Japan in 26 days
Airships and Chocobos still popular
Epic unveils January 2012 beta for Unreal Development Kit
iOS gains new colour grading support
Aggressive Kindle pricing sees Amazon's 2011 income down 45% to $631 million
Investing for the future
We're not the first but we aim to be best says Zynga CEO Pincus, refuting Clonegate
Internal memo reveals stance on plagiarism
Develop Brighton puts out call for speakers for July conference
Evolve and Indie Dev Day also on board
Cost of acquiring US users hit 2011 peak in December of $1.81 reckons Fiksu
Downloads up 7 percent over the month
Nexon to merge with Nexon Mobile as it plans aggressive smartphone strategy in 2012
Slate of 10 games on the way
Windows Phone Tango update to deliver support for native code
Platform also expands to 120 languages
Amazon sold 6 million Kindle Fires in Q4 2011, reckons analyst
Jordan Rohan labels device a real contender
Lumia 910 to launch in UK this summer
LTE-lite handset boasts 12MP
Piracy can help, not hinder, your game, reckons Rovio's Mikael Hed
No point in taking on small offenders
Apple could sell as many as 40 million iPhones in China during 2013 reckons Morgan Stanley
Needs to drop exclusively though
Former Palm CEO Jon Rubinstein quits HP
21 months enough for ex-Apple man
NEC looks to cut 10,000 mainly mobile jobs on the back of predicted $1.3 billion loss
Japanese handset market in transition
Rumoured Facebook IPO could see social network valued at $100 billion
Biggest offering in technology sector history
PG.biz week that was: Apple posts astronomical profits, BlackBerry boys Lazaridis and Balsillie get the boot, Spilt Milk's Smith tackles Twitter and Pocket Gamer scores a new chief
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Gameloft partners with Sprint to launch two Sprint ID game packs for Android in US
Widgets, apps and wallpapers on offer
Apple named as top smartphone vendor in Q4 2011 as Nokia's share halves to 13%
Samsung slips to second
When it comes to app sales, the harder you cut the more revenue you'll make, reckons Distimo
Price needs to be halved to drive downloads
Samsung's mobile sales jump 52% to $15.9 billion in Q4 2011
But firm withholds smartphone shipments