Zynga's latest acquisition is mobile enterprise and services outfit Five Mobile
15th deal in 13 months
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Analytics outfit App Annie raises first round of VC investment
IDG Capital Partners has its stake
Tapjoy raises another $30 million in Series D round
That's $51 million in 2011 to-date
Revenue from freemium is 65% of the US top grossing games chart says Flurry's Jeferson Valadares
It's now the dominant model
OpenFeint appoints ex-Playdom exec Ethan Fassett, as its SVP of product
Goal to drive player acquisition and engagement
Korean mobile developer BiCore raises $4.5 million
CJ Venture Investment buys into business
Marmalade's Tim Closs on rebranding and building a horizontal framework when everyone else is going vertical
New name, same approach
Ex-Ubisoft team set up The Game Bakers for triple-A mobile
Emeric Thoa and Audrey Leprince move short form
Ex-IUGO biz dev director Sarah Thomson joins Glu Mobile
Heading up gPartners program
Following $53 million Newtoy acquisition, Zynga's mobile DAUs have risen 10-fold
More mobile acquisitions likely
With cumulative revenue of over $1.5 billion, Zynga's doing okay, but doesn't match DeNA or GREE for profits
Facebook publisher not that neat
PG.biz week that was: Zynga's $1 billion IPO, Infinity Blade's $9 million profit, Android's up to 500k devices daily, while RIM's in exec meltdown
The past seven days' news compressed bite-sized
Boku launches operator billing for Android IAP in 56 countries
Every little helps
Five seemingly contradictory things we learned from GameHorizon 2011
Sturm und drang
GameHorizon 2011: The return per man-month from Infinity Blade is the same as Gears of War reveals Epic's Mark Rein
#GHconf $11.2 million net sales on $2 million production
GameHorizon 2011: Exent's Rick Marazzani says Android is a dismal platform for paid content
#GHconf But it will get better
GameHorizon 2011: Zynga's Louis Castle on why games want to be free and why your audience is your distribution network
#GHconf Let everyone share
Fiksu CEO Micah Adler on how its user acquisition platform has driven 55 million app downloads
Real-time solution ensures ROI
MocoSpace CEO Justin Siegel on why HTML5 will drive ubiquitous mobile gaming
Now 20 million users strong
EA's Chip Lange on how its Origin service will revolutionise console, PC and mobile gaming and gamers
One big happy cross platform community
PG.biz week that was: Android gains Zombie Farm and Cut the Rope, EA's after PopCap, Storm8 does 210 million installs, and Nokia reveals MeeGo and Windows phones
The past seven days' news compressed bite-sized
Mobile entertainment portal MocoSpace highlights the power of HTML5 with 20 million members
No app store barrier
Opera Mobile App Store signs billing deal with Bango
Free store no more
Barnes & Noble highlights Nook Color app success with doubling of content and millions of downloads
Angry Birds and Astraware Mahjong top games
After 16 million iOS downloads, Zombie Farm finally coming to Android thanks to ngmoco
Supporting DeNA's Mobage platform
MobPartner and BuzzCity partner up to reduce the gap between mobile CPC and CPA worlds
Get real-time feedback on campaigns
TinyCo's Jennifer Lu on why its $5 million TinyFund is about more than just the cash
A new distribution channel for indies
G5 Entertainment launches its casual games onto Android
Free trial to hook 'em
Nintendo boss claims battery life and graphics concerns stopped Wii U controller being standalone tablet
Hasn't he seen an iPad?
Appy's Paul O'Connor says Take-Two CEO's views on mobile gaming demonstrate a lack of new thinking
We're not in Kansas any more Strauss
Nokia confirms Accenture outsourcing deal for Symbian and Windows Phone until 2016
Also creates new location-based business unit
Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick says mobile gaming isn't economically meaningful for the company
Price point isn't viable
The Smartphone Alliance and W3i's WWDC 2011 party pictures
Were you on the list again?
Glu Mobile and Pocket Gamer's WWDC 2011 party portraits
Were you on the list?
PG.biz week that was: Facebook's new HTML5 platform, RIM does 500k Playbooks, Samsung to overtake Nokia, and Acer slashes its Android tablet sale estimates
The past seven days' news compressed bite-sized
CrowdStar launches its first mobile freemium casual game - Top Girl
Believes the female audience isn't being properly served
Tapjoy encourages developers to support Android with new $5 million fund
Take that Apple
Flurry CEO Simon Khalaf on data, building a Nielsen for mobile advertising, and dealing with Apple's incentivised CPI ban
Looking to video ads for even faster growth
The making of iPad social physics-puzzler Casey's Contraptions HD
How it all dropped into place
Connect2Media and Mobile Pie announce App Store Legends deck for Top Trumps game
Selected in conjunction with Pocket Gamer and OpenFeint
The five key mobile game industry trends we saw at E3 2011
Threats, weaknesses and opportunities
EA and its Deathly Hallows Part 2: Gameloft steals last gasp of Harry Potter licence for mobile
Massivius Surprisium
Nine things that caught our attention during WWDC 2011
#wwdc Less meat, plenty of gravy
Storm8 CEO Perry Tam on his goal to be the number one social gaming mobile company
200 million downloads on 58 million devices to-date
Epic announces Infinity Blade has generated $10 million in earnings in 6 months
Also boosted Unreal Engine 3 take up
10 key trends from Qualcomm's Uplinq developers conference
#uplinq Accelerated development
Glus Giancarlo Mori on its 500Gs developer contest for the next, best 3D social mobile game
Use Unity, target iOS/Android, win $250,000
Uplinq 2011: Dave Durnil on how aggressive Snapdragon support is raising the bar for Android gaming
#uplinq From profiling tools to Bullet physics, Unreal Engine 3, AR, shader code and AllJoyn
Uplinq 2011: Gameloft says its Android game sales are 'taking off really strongly'
#uplinq Not just about freemium apparently
Uplinq 2011: Windows Phone ecosystem can disrupt Android-iOS status quo, says Nokia CEO Stephen Elop
#uplinq The triumph of the third way