SGVGF 2012: Kiip's Eamonn Carey on the potential for brands to tap into 'gaming moments that matter'
#sgvgf Linking up with in-game achievements
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SGVGF 2012: GREE's Margaret Tallman and RIM's Volker Hirsch on why social devs shouldn't give up on gifting
#sgvgf Simply hasn't been done well yet
SGVGF 2012: Mobile Pie, FDG, Future Games of London and Tag Games on why the freemium debate is over
#sgvgf Now all about learning how to monetisation
SGVGF 2012: Facebook the perfect launch platform for smartphone devs, claims partnership head Codorniou
#sgvgf Games help users 'tell their story'
Jason Citron back in the game, advising incentivisation platform Gimmie
Super investor Peter Relan also involved
MGF 2012: Tapjoy's Bowen calls for industry standard analytics. Flurry's Firminger says that's us
#mgf2012 Tracking and targetting
Former PopCap man Roy Liu launches real rewards incentivisation platform Gimmie
$200,000 seed funding and beta underway
MGF 2012: Spilt Milk Studios' Andrew Smith and Stuart Dredge hail Twitter's PR prowess for mobile devs
#mgf2012 Journalists are nice people
Nokia pegs Series 40 handset sales at 1.5 billion
Landmark sale made in Brazil
MGF 2012: 30 million across EU5 play games on smartphones every day, says comScore's Jeremy Copp
#mgf2012 iPhone device of choice across Europe
With orders worth $17 billion, Apple is the world's top semiconductor customer, reports Gartner
Smartphone surge sees giant race ahead
University of Abertay's Quartic Llama scoops £6,500 as team triumphs at 2011's bada Student Developer Challenge
BAFTA HQ plays host to final showdown
Android version of Neon Play's Paper Glider Crazy Copter 3D accounts for 15% of downloads, but just 3% of revenue
Monetisation still the issue on Google's OS
Growth of Ultrabooks shipments will outpace tablets by 3 to 1 until 2016
But tablets will win out on volume
Microsoft touts 'design for discovery' as firm lifts lid on Windows Store UI for Windows 8
Making app browsing compelling
Rumour: Microsoft Points to be phased out on Windows Phone Marketplace and Xbox Live in 2012
Microsoft looking to unify digital stores
Android to topple iOS as most important platform for developers by end of 2012, reckons Ovum
Windows Phone support also on the rise
Nokia's Lumia range shifted 1.3 million units in first 2 months, reckon analysts' average
Highest estimate comes in at 2 million
RIM founders Lazaridis and Balsillie step down as co-CEOs, replaced by former Siemens man Heins
Duo to continue to serve on board
Zynga not losing money, but rather making $30 on every new paying user, reckons NaturalMotion's Torsten Reil
Don't forget about churn
PG.biz week that was: Nokia to knock out iPhone, developers get a lock on location, Whale Trail's woes and Sony falls in love with 3DS
The past seven days' news compressed bite-sized
GREE partners with RightScale to offer developers multi-cloud management system
Adapting to the changing social gaming market
Android Market game recommendation tool Hooked looks to track 250,000 titles
Discovery platform boasts advanced algorithm
Zynga losing $150 on every new paying user it attracts, reckons Sterne Agee analyst
Suffering social gaming slowdown
Appitalism adds Android Market support to marketplace bypass tool App Concierge
Rolls out platform to third-parties
Disney partners with Conservation International to raise profile of Fresh Water Initiative with Where's My Water?
Giant makes $50,000 donation
Android passes 250 million activations as Android Market tops 11 billion downloads
Google's quarterly earnings pass $10 billion for first time
Check out of your half-way houses and embrace the 'brilliant' location scene, says Mobile Pie's Will Luton
The golden age is already here
Booyah looks to take location-based play in fresh direction with launch of Pet Town on iOS
Real world entertainment the focus
Asymco unveils first 'modern market analysis' conference, bound for Amsterdam on 13 April
Event a 'participatory experience'
Location-based play is no silver bullet for mobile games, says Massive Damage's Ken Seto
Gameplay comes first, location second
Location-based games should never be limited by location, reckons PerBlue CEO Justin Beck
You might be there, you might not be
Gbanga's Chris Solarski on why location-based games are ready for a web 2.0 style revolution
Apps need to make use of extended capabilities
Ogmento CEO Brian Selzer on why the next leap forward in location-based play will come from hardware, not software
Checking-in to check out
Developers need to avoid check-in friction when launching location-based games, reckons Booyah's Brian Cho
Players need to feel comfortable with sharing data
Grey Area's Ville Vesterinen on why 'clumsy' location-based games need to better scale their experience for users
Industry still in its infancy
Qriously looking to enhance mobile advertising with 'user sentiment measurement' products Censio and Tactus
Asking the right questions?
More than a third of Neon Play's 30 million downloads made at the weekend, reveals CEO Oli Christie
Accounts for almost 39% of all profit
MeeGo still alive as Nokia preps developer version 1.2 update
Version 1.3 also on the cards
44% of users only spend on IAPs after they've played a game 10 times, reports Localytics
User engagement the key
Nokia beats out LG, Samsung, and Sony to be named as India's most trusted brand
Trust Research Advisory honours Finnish giant
Nokia begins Windows Phone push in US, sells Lumia 710 for free on contract at Walmart
Cut price handset gets a price cut
PS Vita software's 'deeper DNA' will offer distinct experience to mobile, reckons Sony's Andrew House
Yet convergence with smartphones essential
IAPs to generate $5.6 billion or 64% of app revenue in 2015, reports IHS Screen Digest
Reckons 96% of 2011 app downloads were free
InMobi's 2011 smartphone ad impressions jump 488 percent to 109 billion
Nokia still top dog, but Apple has top 4 devices
BuzzCity sees global ads up 139% to 126 billion ads in 2011
India leading the 10 countries in the 10+ billion club
Ustwo proclaims death of its premium model, launches 99c Whale Trail on Android as last hurrah
Studio praying for more than 45,000 sales
43% of US developers already working on HTML5 projects, reports Evans Data
Beats out Flash and Silverlight
ZeptoLab CEO Lyalin pegs Cut the Rope downloads at 85 million, paid version makes up 25%
Windows Phone and Symbian versions on the way
Nokia details Lumia's global roll out with interactive Momentum Map
Ticking off the territories