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Apple to Sue Amazon Over App Store

March 22nd, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

Some things are bound to happen. Amazon recently announced the exclusive launch of Angry Birds Rio on the Amazon Appstore and at that moment, the whole world knew Amazon would be sued at some point.

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Sony to Launch NGP Games Both in Retail and Online

March 21st, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: PSP Minis | No Comments »

Sony Entertainment Europe’s CEO Andrew House announced that Sony will launch games in both retail stores and in it’s online store at the same time following massive defeat from retailers on the PSPgo hardware.

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Apple Approves Anti-Gay App, Angers Consumers

March 21st, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

Apple has approved an app from the Christian anti-gay organization Exodus. The app should help to ‘heal’ Gay people with the help of Jesus (who else).

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AT&T Acquires T-Mobile US

March 21st, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

AT&T has bought competitor T-Mobile US from Deutche Telecom. AT&T paid $39 billion for the operator that just introduced the new Sidekick to the North American market.

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Facebook Acquires Snaptu

March 21st, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Facebook | No Comments »

Facebook has acquired Snaptu, a developer of mobile apps that focuses on the J2me market for feature phones. The two companies were already working on a mobile Facebook client for J2me devices. Facebook paid $70 million for the J2me developer.

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Rovio to Float in NYC

March 21st, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

After hauling in millions of revenues on Angry Birds and their first funding round, Rovio is planning their next step; filing for an IPO in New York somewhere in the next five years.

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Bolt SDK Released for in-app Browsing

March 21st, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: J2me | No Comments »

Bitstream has released the Bolt SDK. With the SDK, developers of apps and games can integrate the browser into their projects for rendering web-based content to avoid users leaving the app.

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Flash Player 10.2 Hops Onto Android Market

March 20th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Adobe Flash & Air, Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

The app leaked before, but yesterday the release of Flash Player 10.2 on Android became official as Adobe put the app on Google’s Android market.

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Cut The Rope Wins BAFTA Award

March 17th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Game Awards | No Comments »

Great news for Zeptolab and it’s publisher Chillingo last night as the game Cut The Rope is the first iOS game to secure a BAFTA award. The game had to shake off various DS and PSP titles.

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AdMob to Support Windows Phone 7

March 16th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Ad Funded Gaming, Platforms: AndroidOS, Platforms: iOS, Platforms: Windows Phone | No Comments »

Google’s AdMob is ready to spread their new Windows Phone 7 SDK amongst developers. At the same time, AdMob will be updating the SDK’s they released for Android and iOS developers.