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Bango Enters Canada

April 13th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

Mobile payment specialist Bango has announced the company is entering the Canadian market with their payment platform. With that move, the company covers 200m North-American consumers.

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Rovio to Sync Angry Birds Scores

April 13th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

Rovio has announced Angry Birds Sync. With the new cloud service, consumers can keep track of progress no matter on what hardware they are playing one of the Angry Birds games.

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Vendors get Their Own Android Market

April 13th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

Google has extended Android Market with the possibility for hardware vendors (and potentially operators) to launch their own sections on Android Market. Google follows Bada and WP7 in this move.

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GetJar Ends White Label Stores

April 13th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

About a year ago, GetJar launched their White Label store program to stimulate downloads through operators. Now, the company announced it will be ending the program as consumers moved away from the operators.

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Adobe Announces Flash Builder 4.5, Touch SDK

April 11th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

With the release of Creative Suite 5.5, Adobe also announced the release of Flash Builder 4.5. With Flash Builder 4.5, development time of mobile apps should be reduced with 40%.

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Apple Hires Nintendo and Activision PR Guys

April 11th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in People | No Comments »

Gaming is an important element in the sales strategy for iOS devices, so important that Apple has decided to hire two marketing vets from Nintendo and Activision in the UK.

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AdMob: Tablets Mostly Used for Gaming

April 11th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Ad Funded Gaming, Research & Stats | No Comments »

While Steve Jobs originally promoted the iPad for it’s e-mail reading and web browsing capabilities, adMob research indicates it;s really all about games on the Apple tablet.

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Gartner: iPad to Dominate till 2016

April 11th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Research & Stats | No Comments »

Dispite growing competition, Gartner predicts that Apple’s iPad will dominate the market until the end of 2015 at which the analyst predicts a turning-point in tablet history.

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Kiip Turns Achievements into Rewards

April 11th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Ad Funded Gaming, Platforms: AndroidOS, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

There’s a new advertiser in town and it is called Kiip (from the founders of Dig). The new platform launched on iOS and Android with the goal to tie advertisers to in-game achievements.

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Google and NTTDoCoMo Start Carrier Billing

April 8th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

Good news for many developers today as Google and NTTDoCoMo have started to roll out carrier billing on the Android Market. The lack of carrier billing has always been an issue for many.