Qualcomm's FY2010 revenues up 6% to $11 billion
Net income $3.25 billion, up 104%
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Gameloft sees Q3 FY10 sales up 15% to 34.7 million euros
App Store up 80 percent during 2010
Just-Eat's Mat Braddy on making advergames that don't look like 'dad flirting with your girlfriend'
The thinking behind Belly & Brain
Clarification: Symbian Foundation not replaced, independent part of new SYMBEOSE consortium
Plus 22 million only half EU funded
EA-Chillingo deal confirmed at $17 million upfront, with $12 million earnout
Push for future success
Mobile games industry hits a brickwall as EA Mobile's sales are down for the first time
Chillingo deal placed in stark context
Glu sees Q3 2010 revenues slide 21% to $15.5 million
Net loss of $1.6 million
GREE sees Q1 FY11 sales up 82% to $153 million
Net income up 74% to $46 million
Opinion: Unloved Game Center slowly builds momentum with 100+ supported games
Doodle Jump is the latest addition
Will Luton on Mobile Pie's ambitious all-singing, music-themed, operator-backed, location-based, alternative reality, social, freemium iPhone game My Star
Singing a new song
Online takeaway brand Just-Eat releases iPhone physics game
Angry Birds breadcrumbed
PSP autumn sales down 50%, while full year predicted to be down 20%
Game sales steady however
Fishlabs' CEO says Galaxy on Fire 2's success proves App Store premium pricing works
But unconvinced about Android Market
Glu Mobile releases first in its new wave of premium freemium games
Gun Bros. firing on all cylinders
EA, Sega and Namco cut App Store prices, but not too far
Brands keep their value
Zeebo rolls out twin pronged launch strategy for Chinese market
Standalone console combines with integrated TV and STB
Nintendo hit by 42 percent crash in DS sales; posts half year loss
DS game sales down 23 percent
RIM shares up 12% on Cisco, Microsoft, or A.N.Other purchase rumours
Hey big spender
PayPal promotes new 10 cent to $12 micropayment service
5 percent plus 5 cents charge
FreeAppADay adds an afterburner to promotional activity says Appy Ent
Free FaceFighter boosted to over 634,000 downloads
Gameloft primes five HD games for Windows Phone 7 US launch
But Oregon Trail won't be released in Europe
Analyst seems to predict Android games market could be worth up to $570m in 2010
Imprecise assumptions
PayPal positions itself as the mobile payment platform, predicts $700 million sales in 2010
Adding two click secure check out option
ARM books $158 million of revenue in Q3 2010, up 34%
Cash pile up 24% to $398 million
Appearance of eight PSX ROM packs marks nadir of Google's paid Android Market strategy
Little shop of horrors
Samsung launches 500,000 Smart Challenge for TV apps and games
Can your idea go bigger?
HandyGames says ad-supported, full, free games are the way to go on Ovi
Resurrecting the power of Java
Google announces 100,000 apps on Android Market
Third of an App Store
HandyGames targets five million Ovi downloads by the end of 2010
Already 20% of the way there
Adobe announces InMarket meta app store distribution channel for mobile, PCs, tablets and IPTV
First partner is Intel's AppUp
Connect2Media signs mobile and Android licence for Farm Frenzy 2
Ploughing fields, scattering seeds
RIM showcases PlayBook and Flash 10.1 playback at Adobe's MAX conference
Also releases SDK for Adobe AIR development
Com2uS' Q3 FY10 sales down 26% to $5.8 million
Lacking major launch in the quarter
Microsoft's outgoing guru Ray Ozzie remarks on Apple and Google's noteworthly fusion of mobile hardware and services
Another vision
New Kindles are fastest sellers and bestsellers on Amazon US and UK
Still no actual figures however
Average price of a Windows Phone 7 game is £1.57, but £3.52 for Xbox Live titles
Marketplace already busy with 190 paid titles
Opinion: The synergies that should make EA's Chillingo deal highly profitable
Show me the money
Nokia says 70 developers have done a million downloads on Ovi Store
Power of Symbian
Samsung supports bada with new free game deals from EA and Gameloft
Wave phone owners get added value
Nokia's profits continue to slide: Q3's total is down 4% to 634 million euros
Selling a lot more smartphones, a lot more cheaply
Nokia cuts 1,800 jobs to speed up smartphone deployment and improve Ovi Store experience
Accelerated transformation
Samsung expands app store and smartphone vision with integrated internet TV platform
The battle for the livingroom is hotting up
Rovio's target is 100 million downloads of free ad-supported Angry Birds
Already done three million on Android
EA's statement concerning its Chillingo deal
Don't hold your breath over price information
EA Mobile buys Chillingo: Reuters claims $20 million cash sale
Price not officially confirmed yet
Rovio spreads its App Store wings with self published Angry Birds Halloween
Huge brands don't need publishers
Sibblingz adds iOS and Android in-app purchases into its trans platform game engine
Demos system integration with Happy Island
Big Fish Games on why mobile is a fantastic audience expansion opportunity
But it's all about redesigning, not porting
Angry Birds comes to Motorola's Latin America and Chinese SHOP4APPS store
Migratory
RIM hits back over Apple's 'half a story' on 7 inch tablets, shipments, Flash and antennas
Zapping the distortion field