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Android growing at 5 times the rate of iOS in US as share tops 40%
Up 5.4% in three months
Android the dominant force in US, but 36% of states opt for iOS
Mapping the US of OS
Glu goes Google as Gun Bros hits Chrome Web Store
Contract Killer, Big Time Gangta and Bug Village also lined up
RIM unveils August launch for BlackBerry 7 OS, powering five new handsets
Part of product line acceleration program
Snoopy goes social with Beeline as Capcom picks up Peanuts licence
Series of social games on the way
SpongeBob, iCarly and Dora the Explorer come to GameTanium as Exent signs 30 game deal with Nickelodeon
Android titles delivered via subscription service
Samsung bada shipments up 355% to 4.5 million units in Q2 2011
Android not manufacturer's sole focus
Zee-3's Ste Pickford on why Nintendo CEO Iwata is wrong to slate quality of mobile games
Magnetic Billiards: Blueprint hits 100 five star reviews
Cloud platform Appcelerator offers $10,000 cash prize for Codestrong 2011 hackathon
San Francisco playing host to September splash
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'
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
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
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
HTC predicts it will ship a record 13.5 million smartphones in Q3
Shipments to rise 98% yoy
The PG.biz Hot Five: Pachter gets punched, the fuel behind the rise of freemium, and social gaming gets re-evaluated by Grand Cru
Last week's top five stories
Rovio to make move on China as Angry Birds passes 300 million downloads
Up 50 million in 48 days
PG.biz week that was: 3DS sales stall prompts price slash, freemium rolling in the revenue, Suda 51 goes social and Pachter gets KO'ed
The past seven days' news compressed bite-sized
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
Nokia remains largest mobile manufacturer despite 20% slip in shipments
88.8 million units sent to retail in Q2
Samsung the big riser, but Apple named as top smartphone manufacturer in Q2 2011
Shipments more than double to 20.3 million units
Motorola Mobility ups Xoom shipments in Q2 2011 but posts $56 million loss
Tablet total sits at 690,000
Honours even as Android takes market leading 39% share in US, but Apple named as top OEM
HTC edges out Motorola, Samsung on Google's platform
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
PressOK CEO Ryan Morel on why now's the time to marry mobile advertising and location-based play in PlacePlay
Meeting the need
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
Freemium revenue from top releases on App Store jumps tenfold yoy
Virtual currency behind the rise
DeNA and ngmoco roll out Mobage social network across English speaking world
Platform also makes debut in China
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
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
Angry Birds and co. more than double number of older gamers since 2007
Fruit Ninja and Words With Friends also big draws
DeNA signs up dev stars Keiji Inafune, Suda 51, and Yuji Naka up for Mobage
Yoshifumi Hashimoto and Noritaka Funamizu also on board
Look out Mario and Luigi: the 'fat, beardy' Pickford Bros. are back, building their brand
Why mobile was a magnet for Magnetic Billiards' creativity