Posts Tagged ‘Billing’

Bango takes in-app billing cross-platform

March 17th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

Bango has released a new billing service that will allow developers to generate revenues from in-game sales on all smartphone platforms including Apple’s iPhone OS.

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DevCon: RIM Announces In-Game Billing and more…

November 10th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: BlackBerry | No Comments »

At the BlackBerry Developer Conference yesterday, RIM announced a whole lot of new goodness for BlackBerry developers like a new advertising network, In-Game Billing, LBS and Content Push services.

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In-App Billing Issues for the App Store

October 23rd, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

With the release of in-game billing for mobile games and applications on Apple’s App Store, many applauded this new way of generating revenues and fighting piracy. Yet, a few sources have started to discuss the real value of this proposition.

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Accumulate Releases Flexion

May 6th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution | No Comments »

Yet another mobile games app store launched in the UK today. What makes this one different? Accumulate is specializing in both content discovery as well as flexible pricing.

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PG Finds Billing Loophole in App World

April 1st, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: BlackBerry | 1 Comment »

All credits for this story go to Stuart at PocketGamer. The team there managed to find a loophole that enables developers to receive a far better rev-share from their mobile games.

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Nokia Acquired Minority Stake in Obopay

March 25th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Marketing Strategies | No Comments »

Nokia seems to further diversify its reach in the global mobile content industry. As so, the Finish giant has invested enough in Obopay to acquire a minority share in the Redwood based mobile billing provider.

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N-Gage adds OxiCash Support for the Indian Market

March 25th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Marketing Strategies | No Comments »

India is clearly a very interesting market for Nokia’s N-Gage programme. So important that Nokia started a dedicated marketing wave with promo busses as well as now adding a new local payment system called Oxicash.

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Mogees Enables Android Payments

November 19th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution | No Comments »

Though Google announced that billing mobile game sales for Android isn't possible before early 2009, a company called Mogees has just announed an SDK to at least offer some sort of billing.