Uplinq 2011: HTC's Peter Chou announces HTC Dev program so developers can make the most of new 'golden age'
#uplinq Highlights Onlive streaming game service too
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Ngmoco opens developer access to sandbox environment for the Mobage social gaming platform
Commercial launch only weeks away
Backflip has done 100 million downloads and generates 1 billion monthly ad impressions
Success built on balance of paid, IAP and ad revenue
Uplinq 2011: Qualcomm's Rob Chandhok reckons mobile web apps will beat out native apps
#uplinq Bigger audience, more dynamic ecosystem
Uplinq 2011: TouchPad launch and PC support will boost webOS from underdog to player says HP's Jon Rubinstein
#uplinq By the power of the ecosystem
Uplinq 2011: 'Mobile is the dominant computing platform and it's never going back' says Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs
#uplinq The future's bright
Tapjoy says Apple's incentivised download ban is destroying the user experience and threatening the freemium model
Two thirds of surveyed developers have lost 20% of their revenues
Powering 250 future Android smartphones, plus launch Windows Phone Mango devices, Qualcomm highlights its synergies
#uplinq Integrated, OS agnostic, mobile-focused
Eight interesting things we learned from Glu Mobile's first analyst day
Getting better, quicker, freer, more Android-y
It's now rejected the method, but Glu made $2.9 million from incentivised downloads this quarter
The cost of playing nice with Apple
Resurgent Glu Mobile raises Q2 predictions; it made $2.3 million from Gun Bros. in Q1
Overall has 11.2 million monthly active users
Apple to further tighten App Store IAP policy with initial single transaction limit
A receipt is the best form of education
Social publisher CrowdStar raises $23 million to double size, go global and invest in mobile
Will acquire social/mobile companies to boost growth
Qualcomm improves smartphone location accuracy with support for Russian GLONASS satellites
Thanski comrade
Immersion subsidiary Haptify pushes force feedback on Android with games and publishing
Can you feel it?
Flexion's Jens Lauritzson says it's seeing fantastic conversion rates in some emerging economies
Also gaining 3.5 million users a month
Flexion expands into India with integrated operator billing via Indiagames
Matching big demand with micro payments
Attorney claims Lodsys has a very weak, badly drafted patent, while EFF tells Apple to front up
Troll baiting
PG.biz week that was: Backlash on the freemium backlash, PopCap's so GREE, Apple, Amazon and Lodsys love lawyers, while Verizon takes Xperia Play and WP7
The past seven days' news compressed bite-sized
Gameloft and Zynga have mutually exclusive customers says CFO de Rochefort
Warning over social gaming valuation bubble
Prepping for IPO, PopCap launches Bejeweled-based Pop Tower meta-social mobile game on GREE
Part of emerging Asia Pacific expansion
Data-focused publisher Fuse Powered raises $2 million in initial funding
BlackBerry Partners and NFQ Ventures stump up
EnsenaSoft claims it's the first company to do 1 million Mac App Store downloads
Also the larger publisher on the store
Ngmoco buys longterm development partner Rough Cookie
Gains European base
We have the ambition to be the No.1 Android OEM says Sony Ericsson CTO
No plans to support Windows Mobile
SPIL Games' Peter Driessen says it's already seeing great traction for mobile HTML5 gaming
Predicts the browser will beat the app
Super Rewards integrates with Corona to provide development, distribution and monetisation tools
Incentivised downloads leading the Android charge
Thumb Arcade preps self publishing developer movement under banner of Who Needs Chillingo?
Other publishers available, apparently equally dead
Gogii Games launches $100,000 King of Casual Contest
Especially looking for hidden object Android games
PopCap heads to Android with exclusive two week-only Amazon Appstore availability
Chuzzle and Plants vs. Zombies go free for launch
PG.biz week that was: 100m Android devices, 33.5% of Infinity Blade's revenues from IAP, GREE's Q3 sales up 77% to $198m, and ngmoco is lost in translation
The past seven days' news compressed bite-sized
Go Go Games: If you're not making triple-A mobile games, you're going to be in trouble says Epic's Rein
#gogogames Quality bar is rising fast
Go Go Games: 33.5% of Infinity Blade's revenue comes from IAP
#gogogames Rein breaks out power of indirect sales
Go Go Games: 'We send Apple a weekly report about our apps' says A&M Media's Renate Nyborg
#gogogames How to influence platform holders
Piracy is huge on Android so we're focused on free games with IAP, says Com2uS' Don Lim
Rate for Homerun Battle 3D was 70%
Big Fish basks in the success of its 99c App Store Mother's Day promotion
15 iPad games in the top 25 rankings
Ngmoco says Mobage for smartphones will launch this summer, and there will also be new iOS and Android games
It's Suntory time
Connect2Media rolls out second game on PrizePlay real reward mobile platform
Tempting players with Bling
Ngmoco says Mobage for smartphones goes hand-in-hand with new iOS and Android games
Details lost in translation
Com2uS' baseball game Homerun Battle 3D logs 200 million online match-ups
High score slugging
GREE posts Q3 FY11 sales of $198 million, up 77%
Claims largest Japanese SNS subscriber base
Namco Bandai sees Japanese mobile game subscriber numbers drop 18% to 2.3 million
Slipping down
Opinion: Before we get ahead of ourselves, mobile remains a rounding error for Activision Blizzard
Not even small change
Gamevil's Kyu Lee on expanding the visual virality of iPhone hit Air Penguin
More levels, characters and platforms incoming
PocketGamer.biz readers get a 30% discount for GameHorizon conference
#ghconf It's all kicking off in Gateshead, UK on 28 June
Executive briefing: Cross platform mobile game development
Because platforms now matter more than games
Coconut Island donates iDragPaper advertising to Japan Red Cross's earthquake appeal
Doing its bit
PG.biz week that was: DeNA's up 167%, Capcom 13%, while Glu drops 5%, THQ 52%, plus a resurgent EA buys Firemint
The past seven days' news compressed bite-sized
Capcom Mobile sees FY11 sales up 13% to $50 million
Thanks to those Smurfs
Qualcomm's Uplinq conference gets talks from Nokia's Elop, HP's Rubinstein and HTC's Cho
And Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs will kick things off