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Angry Birds Breaches Through 100.000.000 Downloads

March 14th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

Rovio has done it. In October, the company announced their plans to reach a hundred million downloads for the Angry Birds brand. Now, in March the company announced that milestone has been reached.

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Mobile Streams and Infosys Team Up

March 14th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution | 2 Comments »

Mobile Streams and Infosys are teaming up in a new cross-distribution agreement between both aggregators that will help increase each portfolio.

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ABI: App Store Generated 5.6 Billion Downloads

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

According to a report from ABI Research, Apple’s App Store has generated 5.6 billion downloads in 2010. With this number of downloads, it is safe to say Apple is the biggest player yet.

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iOS 4.3 Update Fixes ‘Smurfs’ Problems

March 11th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

It seems iOS had another important fix for developers. It seems like Apple has given in to the big amount of complaints following the Smurfs Village game’s in-app payments that were used by young children.

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Rovio Raises $42 Million

March 11th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Rovio has closed a series A funding round and managed to pull in $42 million in fresh capital. The funding round was lead by Accel Partners and Atomico Ventures.

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iFart on eBay

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

Developers Joel Comm has put his once famous iFart app on eBay. By selling the app, the developer hopes to raise money for a new venture.

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Scoreloop Announces ‘Go Android’ Program

March 11th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Scoreloop has announced the Go Android program which helps developers of successful Apple iOS apps to port their apps over to Google’s Android platform.

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Australia Planning to Ban Apps

March 11th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Current Affairs | No Comments »

It seems that Apple, Google, Microsoft and others might be facing Korean problems in Australia. Just like in Korea, the government has proposed a legislation that obligates App Store owners to get their content rated.

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Try Before You Buy Successful on Windows Phone 7

March 10th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Windows Phone | No Comments »

Following our report on the Dutch market yesterday, Microsoft released more metrics on the Windows Phone Marketplace. The total app count is now at 9.000, up 1.000 in about a month.