Google I/O: Android device total hits 100 million as Android Market tops 200,000 apps
Daily activation rate rises to 400,000
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Ad network InMobi expands with SmartPay in-app billing platform
Combines payment solution with ad network
Social studio Funzio raises $20 million in funding round as it moves on mobile
Crime City bound for iOS and Android
Google updates Android analytics to SDK to monitor in-app billing
Proving which products are popular and profitable
Capcom limits in-app purchases in Smurfs' Village to 5 items per 15 minutes
Self-imposed cap delivered via update
Samsung Galaxy S II pre-orders hit 3 million across Europe and Asia
Firm targeting total shipments of 10 million in 2011
Zynga moves for team behind open source iPhone engine cocos2d
13th acquisition in last 12 months
Nvidia makes $367 million move for mobile baseband processor specialist Icera
UK firm to build on Tegra 2's momentum
Gingerbread's slow uptake continues; running on just 4% of Android devices
Froyo rules the roost
Windows Phone 7 to become world's biggest smartphone platform by 2015 reckons Pyramid
53% of market will be smartphones in 5 year's time
Samsung slips in US as its market leading share falls to 24.5% says comScore
Apple the only party on the gain in Q1
The PG.Biz Hot Five: No go MeeGo, Tapjoy taps up Android, and EA's fluid financials
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Rovio and NaturalMotion lead the way as Mobile Pie, Unity, Exient and Ideaworks storm 2011 Develop Awards
10 categories gain mobile nominations
Mobclix rolls out 3.0.1 SDK for Android
Adds support for ProGuard
JumpTap secures $25 million in fresh funding round
Ad network's funding surpasses $115 million
EA Sports head Andrew Wilson confirmed as Evolve Brighton keynote
All about integrating social experiences into games
Astraware launches 4 games on Nook Color app store
Astraware Mahjong on Android exclusive to eReader
Canalys reckons Q1 2011 smartphone sales grew 83% to 101 million
Android winning, but Apple and Samsung bada rising too
TeePee Games partners with Predictive Intent to launch Geronimo discovery platform
Targets Android, Facebook and web
App industry to hit 44 billion cumulative downloads by 2016
Growth of Android and Windows Phone 7 to push take up
App revenues to hit $3.91 billion in 2011 as Apple snaps up 75% share
Market as a whole up 65.7% from 2010
Samsung Apps unveils carrier billing across Europe and Asia
App store taps into phone bill or PAYG balance
Apple blocks user reviews for games downloaded with promo codes
Just when you thought things had settled down...
May 6 deadline for 2011 Meffys Awards nominations nears
Extravaganza on July 7 draws ever closer
Firemint's Rob Murray: Joining EA can only lead to us producing better games
Developer needs help 'in order to win'
Firemint buyout designed to boost our creative leadership on mobile, claims EA's Barry Cottle
Fusing EA's scale with Firemint's ingenuity
Fluik Entertainment's Office Jerk hits 1.6 million downloads in first 4 days
Tops free charts in 23 countries
Lunaforte's Lunagames XXL bound for iOS as series hits 1 million DAUs
Three releases launch on App Store
EA acquires Firemint for undisclosed fee
Deal to be closed within next 4 weeks
RIM and Microsoft partner up to integrate Bing into BlackBerry
Search and maps incoming
Russian tech blogger Murtazin pegs Windows Phone 7 sales at 674,000 in 2010
Brands platform 'absolute failure'
Mobage meets i-mode as NTT DoCoMo links up with DeNa's mobile social network
App to come pre-installed on handsets
Nokia world's largest mobile vendor with 29.2% share, but Apple's quota almost doubles
Worldwide mobile shipments up 19.8% in Q1 2011
DeNA celebrates record breaking 2010 as annual sales double to $1.38 billion
Q4 2010 net sales hit $393 million, up 67.5 percent
Glu signs deal with best-selling author James Frey to serve up novels as mobile games
Titles bound for smartphones and tablets
Microsoft launches API mapping tool to aid iOS developers port to WP7
Guide also on offer
PG.biz week that was: Tapjoy tames for Apple, Nokia to serve up 'next iPhone', the real value behind GREE's OpenFeint buyout, and AppNation chatter aplenty
The past seven days' news compressed bite-sized
Strong sales of Verizon's iPhone 4 hand Apple 14% share in US
Firm edges ahead of HTC, Motorola and RIM
Motorola ships 250,000 Xoom tablets in Q1 2011, 4.1 million smartphones
Net revenues up 22% year-on-year
Scoreloop serves up operator-branded social platform for Hong Kong's CSL
Going white label
GREE bought OpenFeint for 368 times annual revenue
Games network made just $282,500 in revenue in 2010
Gameloft sales hit 39.5 million euros in Q1 2011, up 20% year-on-year
Europe makes up 33% of all sales
Apple's move against app incentivisation will force developers to up their game, claims OfferMobi CEO Howie Schwartz
Apple a force for good
Developing on iPhone's a gamble, but crowd funding builds fanbases reckons Bravado Waffle's Stephen Dick
Fans + funds = win win
Angry Birds hits 140 million downloads
Up 40 million since mid-March
Freemium releases make up 40% of all downloads on App Store
99.9 million downloads of free games in March
Zynga acquires UK based GodFinger studio Wonderland Software
Becomes firm's first British development house
Android Market to be as large as App Store on iPhone by July
Google's marketplace growing at pace
Polarbit's Tommy Forslund on why developing for Xperia Play is a breeze
Phone's play on PlayStation won't confuse consumers
OpenFeint teams up with The9 to launch mobile social network in China
The9 Game Zone is go