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16 GDC 2012 mobile gaming talks you shouldn't miss
Apart from the 2 time clashes...
Strong Nook activity pushes Barnes & Noble's FY12 Q3 sales up 5% to $2.4 billion
Unit sales up 38% to $542 million
Kiip poaches Zynga's global brand advertising head Manny Anekal as new COO
Driving engagement and reciprocity
EA Mobile continues free-to-play push with The Simpsons: Tapped Out
Cash for donuts
Composer collective launches Indie Loop Garden for high quality custom sounds
Nine indie heroes to use
Temple Run targeted by another 99c clone, while 2 Pokemon 'games' ride high in the App Store
Has Satoru Iwata changed his mind?
App-Promo's Gary Yentin on living, breathing and succeeding in app promotion
All about discovery, download and monetisation
The PG.biz Hot Five: Glu's clean, Zynga's slammed, Tapjoy's innovative and iTunes is getting scammed
Last week's top five stories
PG.biz week that was: Zynga and Gamevil post record sales, Rovio heads into space and Apple heads for 25 billion downloads
The past seven days' news compressed bite-sized
Thanks to Air Penguin, Zenonia and Baseball Superstars, Gamevil posts record FY11 sales of $36.7 million, up 39%
Boosted by third party publishing activity
Establishing itself in the mobile market, Nvidia sees FY12 revenue up 13% to $4 billion
Expect Tegra 3 to continue the momentum
Sony completes Ericsson buy out to create Sony Mobile Communications
Joint venture compressed
Beating guidance, burning less cash and leading on Android, we're confident about the future, says Glu CEO De Masi
Expects breakeven in 2012
'We're a very clean company and it's slowed down our growth', says Glu's De Masi
No bot farmers here
CloudMade's Christian Petersen on how its Sponsored Locations service will drive massive retail footfall through IAP sponsorship
Games the only apps with the scale for bricks and mortar
With mobile DAUs up to 15 million, Zynga posts FY11 revenue of $1.14 billion, up 91%
But takes massive $510M hit due to IPO stock compensation
Top Eleven developer Nordeus poaches CCP's Nikola Cavic as its new head of biz dev
Strengthening the squad
It's a shame we're not seeing more mobile-console interoperability, says GameSpy's Todd Northcutt
Requires second screen strategy specialists
Chartboost's Pepe Agell on generating mobile gaming next billion happy cross-promotional impressions
Acquiring new users and making cash from your games
Pocket Gems builds out Android presence with third release Tappily Ever After
2011 was good. Will 2012 be better?
RIM extends its free PlayBook for Android app submission program to 2 March
It's already signed up 6,600 new developers
GameSpy's Todd Northcutt on going Open - evolving its online gaming services for iOS and Android via Unity and Unreal Engine
Sitting on a geyser of activity
The PG.biz Hot Five: Apple's App Store manipulation warning and the allegations which triggered it
Last week's top five stories
PG.biz week that was: Bad news for Apple as Clonegate is followed by bot farming, iTunes Scamgate and the accusation it's protecting fraudulent users. Bad Apple...
The past seven days' news compressed bite-sized
Developer says Apple isn't helping it defend itself from Chinese iTunes scammers
We want to ban iTunes accounts but it doesn't let us
Temple Run sprints to 36 million iOS downloads
Endless distribution
BBDevCon 2012: RIM's Anders Jeppsson on making BlackBerry a great platform for gaming
Giving developers the tools they need
BBDevCon 2012: RIM-owned cross-platform gaming network Scoreloop now has 25 million MAUs
#bbdevcon Powering games like PES 2012 on iOS
BBDevCon 2012: RIM's Sean Paul Taylor on providing robust game development tools for BlackBerry
#bbdevcon Creating an itch and eating its own dog food
BBDevCon 2012: RIM's Chris Smith talks up the gaming potential of PlayBook 2.0 and BB10
#bbdevcon Plus BBM and Scoreloop
BBDevCon 2012: 40% of top grossing App World apps are PlayBook games says RIM's Alec Saunders
#bbdevcon It's in the game
BB DevCon 2012: Thorsten Heins on RIM's commitment to developers and BlackBerry's vibrant platform
#bbdevcon And PlayBooks for all
Trevor Cornwell on filling stores' wholesale gap with appbackr's AdSense meets eBay app financing platform
Employ your social network for 54% return
Konami powers ahead on GREE and Mobage, with nine months FY12 sales up 173% to $343 million
#1 GREE game Dragon Collection has 5 million players
Com2uS plans over 40 releases, including 20 freemium games, as it predicts FY12 sales growth of 50%
Big push on third party publishing too
Boosted by rising overseas smartphone market, Com2uS sees FY11 sales up 17% to $31 million
But rising costs means net income remains static
Naoki Aoyagi on how Android's growth will fuel GREE's one billion mobile gamer goal
Spending $50 million on new platform launch
Mobile makes up 23% of Capcom's operating income as nine months FY12 sales rise 68% to $52 million
Total downloads hit 48 million
Complexity of Clonegate underlined as Temple Jump pulled from App Store but Tiny Tower-inspired Pixel Story remains
Title and icon confusion too obvious
Tapjoy's Peter Dille says combing social recommendations with incentivised actions will change game discovery
Papaya deal will help supercharge the market
GREE predicts over $2 billion in FY12 sales, as Q2 sales rise 190% to $540 million
Global social mobile gaming explosion continues
Gameloft revamps its Gameloft LIVE social gaming platform with standalone app for Android
And iOS version incoming
DeNA expands its North American operations with new Vancouver office
Support for Mobage games and platform
Android game recommendation app driving up to 9 downloads a week says Hooked CEO Prita Uppal
Breaking through Market confusion
EA claims 10.5% market share on iOS, 'more than double our nearest competitor'
Plus GREE FIFA World Class Soccer a big success in Japan
Qualcomm posts record chip shipments, revenues and earnings with Q1 FY12 sales up 40% to $4.68 billion
Sitting on $22 billion cash pile
EA Mobile Q3 FY12 sales up 19% to $70 million
Accounts for 26% of digital revenue
Boosted by emerging markets, Gameloft sees FY11 sales up 17% to 164 million euros
41% of revenues now from smartphone and tablets
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