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Nokia reports its app store has 50,000 apps, is doing 6.5 million downloads daily
Up from 5 million a day in April
Freelance jobs based on Android up 20% quarter on quarter says Freelancer.com
Set to eclipse iOS demand by end of 2012
RIM lays off up to 2,000 staff in 'cost optimisation program'
Deep cuts
The PG.biz Hot Five: Rovio's rummage for fresh IP, Gameloft's sliding working conditions, and argument for 'flexible pricing' for apps
Last week's top five stories
Marmalade moves on monetisation as Tapjoy joins partnership programme
Middleware tool becomes one-stop shop
Tim Langdell will be 'put in jail' claims Mobigame CEO Papazian as Edge Games man shirks trademark troll label
'Future made me do it'
ZeptoLab signs deal with Ape Entertainment to deliver Cut the Rope comic
Hitting iOS and print this August
Angry Birds on top as Rovio wins big at Develop Awards 2011
Takes home Grand Prix trophy
Lodsys adds EA, Square Enix, Atari, Take-Two and Rovio to patents infringement roll call
37 companies now on legal hit-list
Rovio sets sights on 1 billion fans for Angry Birds by 2014
Studio betting the farm on the series
Connect2Media signs deal with Sonic Boom to bring Pocket brand to Android
Four games on the way
Nectar names Neon Play as 2011's top start-up at Small Business Awards
Apprentice star Karren Brady offers plaudits
Unity Technologies closes $12 million funding round as firm targets Asian expansion
Moving beyond Brighton and Stockholm
PressOK launches location-based ad tool PlacePlay for games on iOS
Platform also Android bound
Nokia suffers transitions blues in Q2 2011 as sales fall 7% to 9.3 billion
Smartphone shipments down 34% year on year
Qualcomm on board as cloud gaming platform Gaikai closes $30 million investment round
Funds to accelerate availability
PlayPhone looks east as China Wireless Arts and Magic Universe sign up for social SDK
1,200 studios committed to PlayPhone Social
Diamond Dash studio wooga makes move on iOS and HTML5
Proclaims itself second largest social dev on the planet
Flash studio Arkadium opens up mobile office in Toronto, plans 10 releases in next 12 months
Targeting HTML5, Android and iOS
PopCap signs deal with Sony Ericsson to bring library to Xperia mini models
Developer's first steps on Android in Europe
Uppercut's Ed Orman on bringing BioShock and Unreal quality to iOS shooter Epoch
Ex-Irrational man sees mobile and console converging
W3is Melissa Johnson on how its Mobile App Ad Network offers incentivisation without the controversy
Answering the developer's call
PG.biz week that was: EA's $1.35B PopCap buyout, UK App Store prices bumped up, Android loses favour with developers and Steel Media swoops for AppSpy
The past seven days' news compressed bite-sized
CrowdStar and YouWeb partner to launch $10 million fund for indie innovation
$250,000 a piece on offer from StarFund
Suffering 91% piracy rates, FingerKicks dev GAMEized slams 'bewildering' Game Center support
Developer considering position on iOS
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
Windows Phone doubles US share as ad impressions jump 31% in a quarter, reports Millennial
But Microsoft's OS remains minor player
Android developer support on the wane owing to dual assualt by iPhone and iPad
Share of new projects drops by 8%
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
iOS developers on Apple's decision to hike App Store prices in UK
Bringing the UK in line, or likely to damage sales?
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
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
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
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
Tapjoys appoints Al Wood as app network's new CFO
Funding calls for a financial officer
Apple's UK share slides to 18% as Android takes hold at top
But users not switching away from iOS
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
Microsoft losing 717k smartphone users a month in US reckons asymco
BlackBerry and webOS also haemorrhaging subscribers
Nielsen predicts Asian smartphone explosion as 50% of mobile users upgrade in 2011
Reckons Apple and RIM will be top cats
Tablets losing appeal as gaming devices reckons Resolve Market Research
Hitting eReader and laptop sales however
Irrational's Ken Levine on why he's not a Fruit Ninja guy
But thinks Vita will bridge the core-casual divide