Social and mobile game recommendation service TeePee hits 100,000 active users
600,000 suggestions served up
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About A Pocket Gamer co-founder, Jon is Contributing Editor at PG.biz which means he acts like a slightly confused uncle who's forgotten where he's left his glasses. As well as letters and cameras, he likes imaginary numbers and legumes.
Articles by Jon Jordan
Qualcomm acquires gesture recognition technology and staff from GestureTek
Will integrate into Snapdragon
Parsith's Mark Allen explains how FriendSt@r will fill Game Center's gaps
Turning likeminded people into playing friends
PG.biz week that was: Top Tapjoy Android game makes $150k/m, Unity raises $12m, Rovio looks to 1 billion fans, and is freemium evil?
The past seven days' news compressed bite-sized
Indian publisher 7Seas targets global market with 10 new mobile releases
Powered by domestic growth
Chillingo experiments with freemium games, re-releases Monster Mayhem
It's all the rage
RIM buys Swedish video editing tool provider JayCut
Pushing moving images to be more awesome
Unknown US developer Parsith Studios announces iOS gaming network FriendSt@r
Filling Game Center's gaps
Nexon's KartRider Rush celebrates 3 million downloads with cut price content package
Another 12 tracks, 8 characters and 6 karts for just 99c
Five things we learned from Develop and Evolve 2011
#developconf Knowledge from the seaside
Develop 2011: Some freemium companies have been 'borderline predatory' reckons Unity's Erickson
#developconf Amoral business model; how do you use it?
Develop 2011: Microsoft highlights cross-platform, social opportunities of 35 million-strong Xbox Live
#developconf From Xbox to PC and Windows Phone
Develop 2011: PS Vita is the most developer friendly hardware Sony has ever made
#develop By developers, for developers
Exclusive: Angry Birds' developer Rovio is on the trail for mobile IP acquisition
Nest needs more eggs
Evolve 2011: You can make money from Android: Top Tapjoy game is making $150,000 a month
#evolve But don't try paid content
Evolve 2011: With freemium, 0.5% of your users can drive 80% of profits says Snappy Touch's Llopis
#evolve Flexible pricing is the future
Evolve 2011: The network will be the game. Devices will be expressions of this, says Ideaworks' Closs
#evolve Cross platform is lost in the cloud
Evolve 2011: Stuart Dredges 45 interesting iOS games in 45 minutes
#evolve The good, the bad and the ugly
Evolve 2011: We need a premium app store to push console quality games says Fishlabs Schade
#evolve Filling the value perception gap
Evolve 2011: Social is more than Facebook. Everything we build is social, says EA Sports SVP Wilson
#evolve Put consumers at the centre of your business
Exent extends its all-you-can-eat PC GameTanium service to Android
$5pm service also available as white label for carriers
Already pushing 6 billion mobile ads monthly, InMobi expands US operations with 4 new hires
Millennials SVP Peter Bassett joins as head of sales
Ian Stewart returns to source with Gremlin Present label
First release is Bounder's World for iOS
Social mobile network Star Arcade does 5 million downloads
Bringing freemium to emerging markets
YouGov survey says 88% of UK smartphone users ignore mobile ads
But 33% recognised in-app ads
Former programmer claims dangerous working conditions at Gameloft Auckland
Constant crunch
Cross promotion discovery platform Applifier launches iOS beta
Sharing clicks
Report: Angry Birds' effect: Why Helsinki is the hot spot for mobile start ups
Experience, finance and confidence driving activity
New head of IGDA Mobile SIG, Kevin Dent says developers need to remember 'top of the charts is vanity, top grossing is sanity'
Less hype, more regular income
Rumour: Unity is closing a $10+ million funding round
Company valued north of $200 million
The PG.biz Hot Five: Levine's not a fan, Zynga buys again, Tapjoy loves Android, Kiip's disruptive, while Apple's hiking UK App Store prices
Last week's top five stories
After the exuberance comes the loan: EA's selling $550 million stock options to pay for PopCap
Interest bearing notes to mature July 2016
Tapjoy CEO Shah says Android user five times more valuable to advertisers than iOS user
Average conversion rate on the network 0.55%
Like Nokia, RIM has to deal with 6 months of transition until new OS devices ship in 2012
For Windows Phone read QNX
VP Ville Heijari reckons Rovio is 'maybe' worth more than PopCap
Ruffling feathers
Sony announces additional $20 million to fund exclusive PSN games
To run over three years
Exit Games integrates Photon networking engine with Marmalade SDK
Cross platform connected
Steel Media acquires iPhone game video review site AppSpy
Moving forward
EA buys PopCap for a potential $1.35 billion
Takes a $550 million loan to grab the prize
Handheld market will be impacted by mobile gaming competition says THQ CEO Farrell
Yes, but less
Gameloft Live! hits 4 million subscribers
Social system grows... if slowly
With an average of 3 million downloads daily, BlackBerry App World hits the one billion total
Free PlayBook game Doodle Blast has done 40,000
Ex-AdMob mobile advertising start up MoPub raises $6.5 million in first funding round
Hosting 1 billion ads a month
Zynga hires Nicolas Gramlich, the coder behind open source Android AndEngine
Another brick in the wall
HP renames Palm as webOS global business, ex-CEO Rubinstein replaced by Stephen DeWitt
Reorg comes in post-TouchPad launch
Kiip CEO Brian Wong on why its achievement-based ad platform fills developers' Tapjoy gap
Reward, revenue and retention
Riptide Games and Projkt Nine merge
My Pet Zombie the first fruit
Ad platform inneractive integrates into Marmalade SDK
Develop and advertise
PG.biz week that was: Freemium games hit 65%, HTC ships 11M, Tapjoy raises $30M, and Steve Jobs isn't Patrick Mork's dad
The past seven days' news compressed bite-sized
GetJar's Patrick Mork hits back over Apple's app store cease and desist: 'Steve Jobs isn't our Dad'
Forms The Open And Free App Movement