PopCap to power EA's digital business towards $1 billion in 2012 reckons Riccitiello
With Chillingo, it has 6 of top 10 iOS games in 2010
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
FreeAppADay builds on community with FunMobility's FunChat mobile engagement platform
Tapping up existing apps 5 million strong userbase
MobileBeat 2011: Microtransactions will continue to be mobile's money maker
Count the coins
Microsoft lifts lid on 4 new Windows Phone Mango handsets from Samsung, Acer, Fujitsu and ZTE
Samsung delivers first device with front facing camera
Steel Media acquires iPhone game video review site AppSpy
Moving forward
Tapjoys appoints Al Wood as app network's new CFO
Funding calls for a financial officer
Apple's UK share slides to 18% as Android takes hold at top
But users not switching away from iOS
Google rolls out fresh look for Android Market on handsets
Marketplace delivered via staggered roll out
Mobile accessory master Jawbone boosted by $70 million JP Morgan investment
Total funds touch $170 million
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EA Flexion website up and running, but empty
Microsoft losing 717k smartphone users a month in US reckons asymco
BlackBerry and webOS also haemorrhaging subscribers
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
Nielsen predicts Asian smartphone explosion as 50% of mobile users upgrade in 2011
Reckons Apple and RIM will be top cats
Tablets losing appeal as gaming devices reckons Resolve Market Research
Hitting eReader and laptop sales however
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
Irrational's Ken Levine on why he's not a Fruit Ninja guy
But thinks Vita will bridge the core-casual divide
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
World of Goo, Sword & Sworcery, and First Touch Soccer are the top-reviewed iPhone games of Q2 2011
Critical acclaim
Apple rumoured to be on the hunt for manufacturers ready for iPad 3 launch in Q3 2011
Quanta and Pegatron leading the line
Windows Phone has 'gone from very small to very small' since launch, admits Steve Ballmer
But Microsoft has sold 'millions of phones'
Customer loyalty to iOS 'unparalleled' as average user spends $100 on content
Platform 'stickiness' to grow with launch of iOS 5
PlayScreens William D. Volk asks is Nokia the MySpace of mobile?
It's even failing when it succeeds
HP renames Palm as webOS global business, ex-CEO Rubinstein replaced by Stephen DeWitt
Reorg comes in post-TouchPad launch
BioShock devs depart Irrational to launch iOS focused Uppercut Games
Debut release Epoch due Q4 2011
Kiip CEO Brian Wong on why its achievement-based ad platform fills developers' Tapjoy gap
Reward, revenue and retention
Average price of an App Store paid download up 14% in 2011 reckons Piper Jaffray
Annual downloads per average user estimated at 83
Unity opens nominations for annual awards
Winners announced at Unite 11
Riptide Games and Projkt Nine merge
My Pet Zombie the first fruit
Bigpoint and Spil Games partner up to push social gaming
ZooMumba first of many Bigpoint games to hit Spil
appMobi launches HTML5 JavaScript frameworks to aid app UI
Designed to work with rival dev tools
Ad platform inneractive integrates into Marmalade SDK
Develop and advertise
The PG.biz Mobile Gaming Mavens on the value of developing games for niche platforms
Is iOS, Android and Windows Mobile all there is?
The PG.biz Hot Five: Console studios go mobile, the fundamentals of freemium, and Zynga, Zynga, and more Zynga
Last week's top five stories
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
Zynga's latest acquisition is mobile enterprise and services outfit Five Mobile
15th deal in 13 months
Amazon rumoured to be readying 1.2 million tablets for Q3 2011 launch
Looking to match Nook Color
Paying GREE and Mobage users play more DS says Nintendo boss Iwata
And he's got some numbers that prove it
eBay acquires mobile payments specialist Zong for $240 million
Technology to integrated into PayPal
Social gaming platform Roar Engine drops charge for premium features
Fees only apply when DAUs top 100
Analytics outfit App Annie raises first round of VC investment
IDG Capital Partners has its stake
IGN offers developers office space and tech support with Indie Open House project
Six month residency scheme returns
Quality Index: The week's best iPhone games DeathSmiles, Async Corp.
Critically acclaimed
W3i launches new app discovery service Mobile App Ad Network
Merges display ads with app offers
Tapjoy raises another $30 million in Series D round
That's $51 million in 2011 to-date