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Intel highlights iPad-class specs for Windows 8 tablets using its Clover Trail chip
Including 30 days standby time
Aeria Mobile signs strategic deal with Japanese social outfit Pokelabo
Bringing Monster Paradise to the west
Autodesk helps indies animate faster and cheaper with 3ds Max-integrated animation store
Preview before you buy
Success for Gameloft's new IAP strategy as Ice Age is top 5 top grossing in over 50 countries
Five million downloads in a week
GetJar COO Chris Dury steps up to CEO position as free app store looks to ride US Android boom
Founder Ilja Laurs to focus on strategy
Develop in Brighton opens for registrations, boasting super early bird rates
Now £525 for complete 10 - 12 July package
HandyGames' Christopher Kassulke on why 25 million downloads on Google Play is just the beginning
Android platform is growing fast and not just on mobile
Wes Biggs on why Adfonic's isn't panicking over UDIDs, but is talking, supporting and tracking
United approach will win out in the end
Opt-out is hard coded into OpenUDID, clarifies Appsfire's Ouriel Ohayon
Knocking industry misconception on the head
Apsalar's Michael Oiknine on why mobile advertisers will decide UDID's replacement
He's backing OpenUDID
Velti adds Paul Sinclair as VP of operator sales
Playing nice with carriers
PlayJam signs up Miniclip to bring Fragger and iStunt to smart TVs
Gets social integration, monetisation and leaderboards
Thanks to GREE and Zynga's deep wallets, mobile user acquisition costs peaked at $6 over Easter
High stake gamble?
Mobile tech outfit Crashlytics raises $5 million in Series A round
Adds to $1 million in seed money
HandyGames does 25 million downloads from Google Play
Free is key
Storm8 calls Amazon Appstore world class as it generates $700,000 in IAPs during March
It's on fire, Kindle Fire
SponsorPay beefs up publisher team with two new hires
And still hiring
Opera launches iOS and Android app install tracking solution App-Tribute
Doesn't use UDIDs, MAC addresses or cookies
GREE invests in Japanese HTML5 tools company Wizcorp
Mithril engine will save on server costs
Facebook buys Instagram for $1 billion in cash and shares
Pays more than twice more per user than Zynga paid for OMGPOP
The PG.biz Hot Five: In-app ads are lucrative, MAC addresses are wrong and new iPad's GPU questioned
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Real-time lighting outfit Geomerics brings its Enlighten smarts to mobile
Tech demo app expected soon
Rovio highlights value of Chinese social network, placing Weibo alongside Twitter and Facebook
Micro-blogging link within Angry Birds Space
Kontagent announces kSuite DataMine to enable better actionable data
Slice and dice your cohorts
Greystripe updates SDK with MAC address, but is working on a long-term UDID replacement
Part of industry group
Samsung expects to report record Q1 FY12 profits of over $5 billion
Smartphone and tablet business driving success
HTC sees Q1 FY12 revenues slip 35% down to $2.3 billion
Waiting for impact of HTC One family
Kontagent's Aaron Huang on forming MATA to solve the pain of reporting fragmentation
Streamline your data ingestion with Open API
Madvertise looks beyond UDIDs with unique device detection to track across web and apps
Not a like-for-like replacement
Draw Something hits 50 million downloads in 50 days
Knocks Angry Birds Space off the top grossing spot
Flurry says Apple isn't yet rejecting apps for using UDIDs, but updates SDK nevertheless
UDIDs with user consent are fine
Glu Mobile acquires Deer Hunter brand from Atari
Will extend games to Mac, Chrome and smart TVs
MdotM's Rodney Witcher on the opportunities arising from replacing UDIDs with AdTruth's DeviceInsight tech
Combining in-app activity with mobile web traffic
Xaitment brings its AI smarts to iOS and Android via Unity plug-ins
XaitMap and xaitControl coming in May
Velti's Krishna Subramanian on why a united front for UDID replacement is more important than specific solutions
Fragmentation will confuse the entire industry
Velti heads ODIN industry group in united approach for an alternative to UDIDs
Jumptap, MdotM, StrikeAd, Smaato and Adfonic onboard
Powering 1.2 million rewardable events daily, Beintoo claims it's the largest mobile rewards platform
Gamelion's joined up too
Samsung extends reach of its iAd competitor AdHub announcing a mobile advertising exchange
Powered by OpenX
Flaregames raises 2 million euros from Deutsche Telekom's venture arm
Also signs co-marketing deal
Sony looks to integrate phone, tablet and PC products under new Mobile CEO Kunimasa Suzuki
Bert Nordberg becomes chairman
Marmalade's Alex Caccia on why its distribution channel App Program is open to all
Matching development and sales flexibility
Madvertise's Adam Drake on why Apple has to help strike the balance between privacy and data collection
Or developers will focus elsewhere
Appsfire and Crashlytics clash over genesis and functionality of UDID replacements OpenUDID and SecureUDID
No industry consensus emerging yet
How has the industry replaced UDIDs? PG.biz lists who's doing what and the alternative approaches
Know your ODIN and ODID from your OpenUDID?
Cross platform game TrafficWonder sees more quality activity from PlayBook than Android
Exploiting a niche
Updated: Android release takes Temple Run over the 50 million downloads mark
Over two million from Google Play
Wooga highlights iOS-Facebook synergies with 64% of Diamond Dash's iOS players going cross platform
Total iOS downloads now over 11 million
Worms creator Andy Davidson returns to Team17 after 14 year absence
Adding to the team
The PG.biz Hot Five: Gameloft's all in for IAP, UDIDs are all over, and Outfit7 founder is back
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