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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.
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EA Mobile sees Q4 sales jump 27% as FY11 revenues reach $230 million
99c sales + Chillingo + Dead Space = happiness
Samurai II, Chop Chop Tennis and Battle Bears in first wave of Unity Union games for PlayBook
Five native titles due in the summer
THQ Wireless completes final full fiscal year with FY11 sales of $5.4 million, down 52%
Currently just servicing Apple App Store
Tapjoy promotes Android app discovery with App Wars event
Hooks up with Apsalar as part of Google I/O on May 10
Glu sees Q1 2011 revenues drop 5%, but smartphone revenue up 94% sequentially
Does 20 million Android and iOS install during quarter
10 things we learned from AppNation 2011
The state of the union
Opinion: Is Apple the App Store's honest gatekeeper or is it running a protection racket?
You may kiss the ring
AppNation 2011: Some incentivised players are good in the longterm; some aren't says W3i
#appnation Is Apple's tar brush too wide?
AppNation 2011: Android devs need to use all available markets says Google mobile director Jason Spero
#appnation Follow your consumers
AppNation 2011: OpenFeint and ngmoco pleased about Apple's Tapjoy incentivisation ban
#appnation Gaming the App Store is bad
AppNation 2011: Tapjoy defends incentivised downloads as being very efficient for quality apps
#appnation Part of an organic ROI marketing plan
AppNation 2011: Barnes & Noble and Amazon focus on customers not the app
#appnation Reversing conventional wisdom
AppNation 2011: With carrier billing, IAP, integrated advertising, and new tools strategy, BlackBerry is now open for developers
#appnation Plenty of potential
AppNation 2011: Bolt Creative and Distinct Dev highlight Tapjoy's value in gaining iOS sales
#appnation Is Apple breaking the App Store?
AppNation 2011: Trip Hawkins: The browser will beat the app store
#appnation Digital Chocolate CEO stirs the tea leaves
AppNation 2011: On average iOS users have downloaded 48 apps says Nielsen
#appnation Android users have 35 app on average
ARM sees Q1 2011 revenues up 26% to $185.5 million
Market boom generated $100 million in cashflow
Tap Me's Joshua Hernandez on moving beyond incentivisation to better engagement
Keep eyeballs in the game
Com2uS Q1 2011 revenue up 6% to $6.8 million but net income hit 53%
Balancing feature phone-smartphone swap
Outfit7 claims the crown as the fastest mobile developer to hit 100 million downloads
And still growing strong at 15 million monthly
Glu Mobile's Mike Breslin on selling freemium games to a hardcore audience
The market's moving in the right direction
HandyGames' Christopher Kassulke on why he's totally committed to Xperia Play
Get your fingers off the screen
GREE, KDDI and Tencent launch $100 million Android development fund
The A-Fund needs you
GREE on its plans to become the No.1 social gaming network
All systems go
OpenFeint's Jason Citron on $104 million GREE deal and 'stepping on the gas pedal'
Targeting 1 billion mobile gamers
Japanese social gaming platform GREE buys OpenFeint for $104 million
Will invest further cash for accelerated growth
RIM's PlayBook launch day sales estimated as 50,000
Solid start
Qualcomm has a record Q2 2011; revenues up 46% to $3.88 billion
Now sitting on a $22 billion cash pile
Nokia to launch a new app store based on Windows Marketplace
Plus unified submission for WP7, Symbian and Series 40
Nokia has solid Q1 2011 with sales up 9% to 10.4 billion
But profits down 10% and market share sliding fast
Apple has sold a total of 189 million iOS devices
Including 19.5 million iPads
Apple posts another record quarter: Q2 2011 profits up 95% to $5.99 billion
18.7 million iPhones, 4.7 million iPads sold
FADE estimates Android Market game sales in Q1 2011 at $8.8 million, up 330%
Top game was Robo Defense with 186,000 sales
Playforge's Thomas Chung on why Apple's incentivisation rejection doesn't solve iOS discoverability
One step forward?
Eliminating incentivised installs is great for iOS ecosystem says MdotM's Rodney Witcher
Install model shouldn't be about gaming the App Store
Opinion: Apple's move to ban Tapjoy and Flurry is incredible
Welcome to the cruel world
Tapjoy says Apple ban will have significant and long-term negative impact on iOS user experience
Caught in a loophole?
Apple stamps down on app incentivisation; starts rejecting games using per install model
Burgeoning business model banned
Gamevil's Kyu Lee on why the publisher hopes to release a dozen indie developed games in 2011
Strategy already paying off with Air Penguin's US success
The Game Creator's Lee Bamber on AGK; bringing mobile game middleware to the masses
Building on 10 years of DarkBASIC
Astro Ape's Chieh Huang on making better social games than Zynga, Pocket Gems and Storm8
Our retention rate is close to 70 percent
PG.biz week that was: IGDA takes on Amazon, Android Market hits 3 billion downloads, Ovi Store does 3 million daily, Intel primes MeeGo, and WP7 is a slow burn
The past seven days' news compressed bite-sized
Class action filed against Apple over the unauthorised purchase of in-app items by children
Garen Meguerian wants his $200 back and compensation
GetJar's Patrick Mork enters IGDA-Amazon Appstore debate with his Manifesto for App Stores
Be open, let the market do its work
Mark Rein to keynote new NE England mobile event; Go Go Games
Gateshead, 12 May and it's free
PopCap saw mobile revenues rise 50% in 2010
Explosion on iOS
IGDA warns developers to think carefully before accepting Amazon's Appstore terms
Significant concerns raised
PG.biz Mobile Games Trends Report 2011 out now
Currently available with 10% discount
Glu Mobile's iOS sharp shooter Contract Killer does 5 million downloads in 2 weeks
Dialed in