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Sponsored feature: SkyVu's Ben Vu on why Battle Bears is all fired up on the GREE Platform
Platform success is good for all
Sponsored feature: Eros Resmini explains why GREE Loves Indies
Plus promoting an indie game every month
Com2uS on how SK Telecom's Tstore is boosting its already buoyant Android sales
High spenders in undiluted waters
Papaya to add iOS and Unity support to AppFlood as it hits 200 million impressions per month
Cross promotion platform on the up
Alexandre Tan on Gameloft's involvement with the Duo Gamer iOS gamepad
Something different for core gamers
Boss Alien's Jason Avent on F2P xenophobia, game accessability, and not encouraging a pay to win mentality
Revved up for success
Tap for Tap bulks up biz dev team appointing Ryan Gerhardt as VP
Promoting cross promotion
Product GM Jeff Tseng steps up to CrowdStar CEO role
Driving the business forward
Apps World 12: Indies can thrive on PlayStation Mobile, despite C# requirement, says Sony
#appsworld New doors open wide
Apps World 12: Millennial Media, Papaya and Tag Games clash over value of in-game advertising
#appsworld Main game or backstop option?
Apps World 12: There are too many stores says Vodafone as it shutters its own curated Android store
#appsworld Less is less
Opinion: Convergence will kill the industry; the good news is divergence is ascendant
Messy usage patterns not hardware and services win
Apps World 12: We're seeing 5-7 daily sessions of FIFA 13 per user, says EA Mobile
#appsworld New season kicks off well
Opinion: Apple takes a small step towards console play as first official third-party iOS gamepad is announced
Duo Games and Gameloft open the gates
Duo Games announces Bluetooth iOS gamepad exclusively for Gameloft titles
New way to play
Soft launches means Australian and Canadian iOS users are the most expensive says Chartboost
The world through a CPI/CPC lens
Pixowl raises $1.2 million to expand its Grub brand
Seed round to fuel franchise
RIM tries to manage its decline as FY13 Q2 revenue drops 31% to $2.9 billion
But cash and subscriber numbers are slightly up
Mike Levine on why HappyGiant is choosing to self publish 3D iPad nurturer Dolphin Paradise
All about building customer base
Number of iOS app downloads in free top 200 hits 2012 low, according to Fiksu
App Store tweaks, iPhone 5 anticipation to blame
F2P Summit: Ramadan, Thursdays and Valentine's Day are good times to get quality users says Aeria's Zuta
#f2psummit Know your users' cycles
F2P Summit: Super communities will fix the app discovery problem, reckons Playfuel's Ian Baverstock
#f2psummit The power of crowds
F2P Summit: Nicholas Lovell's 15 basic rules of successful F2P games
# f2psummit Tick off the checklist
Redesigning 101-in-1 Games for iPad has doubled ARPDAU, says Nordcurrent's Trofimova
Game collection has over 20 million downloads
Zynga braindrain continues as Brian Kahrs joins SGN
Becomes VP of product
MoPub raises $12 million in Series B round
Brings total to $18.5 million
Sponsored feature: Big publishers and indies should be making the most of GREE Platform, argues Eros Resmini
Open for business
Rising game quality means HTML5 will remain no-go, says Fishlabs' Schade
Can't guarantee user experience
iVentureCapital's Michael Reul on why he's pumping his own cash into mobile developers
Already signed up MobileBits
Opinion: Aping console-quality gaming on mobile is a recipe to experience console-style decline
Think CSR Racing, not Real Racing 3
Andre Potgeter explains Gameforge's step-by-step approach for mobile gaming success
Opening new doors, browsers and windows
You don't need more data. You need more insight, argues Nexage's Victor Milligan
Opening up information to drive liquidity
GDC Online replaced in 2013 by LA-based GDC Next
Running with new App Developers Conference
SponsorPay's Projjol Banerjea on how value-exchange advertising is driving the mobile business
It's up 300 percent during 2012
Hot Five: iPhone 5, iPod touch, iOS 6, Dead Trigger and rise of Clash of Clans
Last week's top five stories
Zynga gets into the card-battling genre with the release of Montopia and Ayakashi in the west
Zynga Japan titles announced for iOS and Android
Elblabs on hooking up developers with its Unity-focused GameAdTrading platform
Plug in and go
YouWeb founder Peter Relan opens the doors to entrepreneurial debate at Founders Quorum
Top advice
Berlin is the place for mobile marketing start ups, reckons HitFox incubator CEO Jan Beckers
Mobile distribution hub
Hot Five: The Charticle debuts, Rovio's Bad Piggies love Unity, and expectations for PlayStation Mobile
Last week's top five stories
Mobile debut has comparable ARPDAU to our PC games, says Aeria Europe
Scoring a 0.60 euros rate in Germany
Guohe launches MIX cross-promotion platform for fast-maturing Chinese iOS gaming ecosystem
Funnelling users
Opinion: Amazon needs to focus on taking Kindle Fire and Appstore global, not getting into a specs-based knife fight with Apple
Know your place in the ecosystem
Deadline for up to £25,000 via Prototype Fund ends 19 September
UK developers need to get cracking
No secrets with VisualDreams as it launches Linkies with a real-time download counter
Set the information free
Capcom doubles down with GREE, planning 6 releases including Dead Rising
While Japan gets more card battlers
Real rewards network Beintoo hits 200 million users
People just love those rewards
The next app developer to hit big will be on Windows, predicts Steve Ballmer
Sees good times ahead
Playing for a big win, Hothead's DeYoung explains why Vancouver is the place to be
Making hay as Rockstar, Capcom and Activision decline