Apple boom continues with FY12 sales up 45% to $157 billion
Income up 61% to $42 billion
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Softgames closes investment round to expand its mobile HTML5 gaming platform
Going beyond the app store
Flexion sees continued strong growth from Brazil, Argentina and Mexico
Distribution platform generates $5.4 million in Q3
Troubled Zynga posts Q3 2012 loss of $53 million on flat revenues
Expects restructuring to save up to $20M per quarter
Zynga and bwin.party to launch real money gambling games in UK
FarmVille slots coming in 2013
Jelly Bean monetises a third better than other versions of Android
So says Tapjoy
GREE pays $170 million in cash to snap up Japanese publisher Pokelabo
Collect 'em all
SGN looks to cross-platform future, appointing Josh Yguado as president
All together
MoMinis announces $100,000 GameCast development contest
Imagine. Develop. Win
Zynga cuts 13 games and 5 percent of staff in a move to regain profitability
Hard times
Tap For Tap rolls out its free Tap Exchange platform
All about those clicks
Opinion: Finally Apple delivers the retina iPad it promised six months ago
Retina needed more grunt
Apple kills off 'new iPad', launches iPad mini and new 4th generation iPad
Working on the next 100 million sales
Apple announces 35 billion app downloads and $6.5 billion paid to developers
This month's App Store report
Entries for International Mobile Gaming Awards 2013 now open
Nominate your favourites
PopCap signs up for Antix's seamless game distribution platform
Will debut with Plants vs. Zombies
Nokia to raise 750 million euros to strengthen financial position
Ensuring medium term liquidity
Caspar Field on why Wish Studios is focused on creativity not monetisation
What's core?
UK start up Wish Studios hits the ground running with original Sony project
Creating new IP for TV and mobile
Appssavvy's in-game Adtivity platform now live for Games.com portal
All about activity-based advertising
Kindle Fire offers some of the best click through rates, reckons Velti
Highlighting 7-inch device engagement
MAQL Europe on how its expertise and MarvDev fund could unlock $200 ARPPU for your game
Looking to be perfectly formed with you
Surface is an unbelievably great product, reckons Bill Gates
All changing for Microsoft
Big Fish reinforces F2P strategy, poaching Chris Williams from PlayFirst
Full on freemium
Opinion: Too many too similar conferences are stifling industry debate
More quality keynotes, less panel talks
Evolve in London gains Edge breakfast club
Tadhg Kelly and Mark Sorrell speaking
India becomes fourth largest market in terms of Android downloads
Leaping tiger
Apsalar adds support for Facebook mobile ads within its free Campaign Source Insights tool
Cohort your funnels
Tylted deal is next step towards our goal for a 500 million user reach, says reward platform Beintoo
Gamification grows apace
GREE opens the doors to Flash developers with release of its LWF engine
Convert your games to Unity or HTML5
Crash Lab on why it's publishing its debut game Twist Pilot with Zynga
Big dog's reach
Squeezed by rising user acquisition costs, TinyCo rolls its own affiliate network - Tiny Partners
Will share 50% of user revenue
Taking hardcore PVP to another level, PlayMesh looks to engage with its players by killing them
Test of Valor
Flurry integrates its monetisation platform within AppSpot
Centralised reporting with RTB to come in Q1 2013
SponsorPay sees Q3 mobile activity double as it adds Nexon America, Alawar and Tetris Online
Mobile monetisation on the rise
Speakers from Sega, PlayPhone, Arkadium and Qualcomm signed up for Mobile Gaming USA East 2013
Kick off the new year in the Big Apple
Making Of
Chart rush: The making of Clash of Clans
How Supercell destroyed the opposition
TapSense launches frictionless in-app download ad format for iOS
Just tap and get
Eight key industry trends we learned from GDC Online 2012
#gdconline What will happen tomorrow, today
GDC Online 12: Games matter, so we have to treat our players well, concludes ethics debate
#gdconline It's time to grow up
UBM's Simon Carless on evolving GDC Online, moving it to LA, and supporting app developers
#gdconline All change for 2013
GDC Online 12: Spacetime's Gattis on why start ups needs lawyers and finance guys first
#gdconline Keeping the dream alive
GDC Online 12: Zynga With Friends on the creative process and coming up with new IP
#gdconline Throwing away 90% and failing fast
GDC Online 12: PlayScreen's Volk on why Apple broke the App Store charts and what to do about it
#gdconline Rise of smart marketing
GDC Online 12: Industrial Toys on creating an epic universe for its debut mobile game
#gdconline Going deep, going big
GDC Online 12: Hong Kong-based Life is Crime players are 6 times more aggressive than US, says Red Robot
#gdconline Global variation
GDC Online 12: So who came to the Pocket Gamer party?
Checked into the Hangar Lounge
GDC Online 12: PopCap's Contestabile on keeping Bejeweled Blitz an 'evergreen success'
#gdconline Constant tweaking
GDC Online 12: EA's Segerstrale on why the future of gaming isn't device-specific, it's all devices
#gdconline Creating new consumer journeys
GDC Online 12: iOS players are three times more valuable than Facebook, reckons King.com
#gdconline At least on Bubble Witch Saga