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2up Mobile and Net Mobile Sign Development Deal

January 12th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Development Deals | No Comments »

2up Mobile has announced a new development deal with Net Mobile in which 2up will develop 10 Android apps exclusively for the publisher. The deal marks the start of a close cooperation between both.

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Lima Sky To Sue All Doodles!?

January 12th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

Doodle Jump has been highly popular ever since the game launched on the App Store. As a result, we have seen many other ‘Doodle’ (or hand drawn) games launch in the hope that having Doodle in the name will pay off.

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iPhone 4 CDMA Launches on Verizon, iPad to Follow

January 12th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Starting next month, Verizon consumers can finally purchase the iPhone 4. February 10th will be the official launchdate for the CDMA version of the device. The device doesn’t support LTE however.

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Rovio and Mattel Strike Deal on Angry Birds Board Game

January 11th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Brand Licensing | No Comments »

While Rovio is still on track to reach 100.000.000 downloads of Angry Birds games somewhere this year, the company has surprised us with yet another licensing deal. This time they will work with Mattel.

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PSP Phone / Xperia Play in Action

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

A picture says more than a thousand words, but a video!? We got tipped on a Chinese YouTube video of someone playing Biohazard 2 and Rage Racer on the new phone/console hybrid.

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Distimo Looks Back at 2010, Most Money in In-App Payments

January 10th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Research & Stats | No Comments »

The year 201 is over and so, Distimo has created a report on what 2010 has brought us. One of the things the report tells us is that the 300 top free apps in the US are generating 3 million downloads every day.

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TapJoy Secures $21 Million Investment

January 10th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Mobile & Web app promotion company TapJoy has secured an investment of $21 million in an investment round led by Rho Ventures. The investment is a surprise given the scandal the company was involved in.

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Rope Cut Brings Cut The Rope to Android

January 10th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

While Zeptolab confirmed it would be taking Cut The Rope to Android, it seems Feelingtouch Inc. has taken the liberty to release their vision of what such a game on Android should be like.

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Apple Launches Mac App Store, Hackers Ruin It

January 8th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

Last Friday, Apple launched the new App Store for Mac. What the company didn’t expect though was that the store was hacked only hours after opening resulting in many users freely downloading the apps from their store.

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Rovio Launches Angry Birds Free on App Store

January 8th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

Rovio has launched a new free version of Angry Birds on Apple’s App Store. The title competes directly with the Angry Birds and Angry Birds Lite versions licensed to EA owned publisher Chillingo.

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