Posts Tagged ‘Market’

Smaato: Symbian is still Dominating – UPDATED

January 15th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS, Platforms: BlackBerry, Platforms: iOS, Platforms: Symbian, Platforms: Windows Mobile, Research & Stats | No Comments »

According to research from Smaato, Symbian is still the leading platform in their advertising network (Based on CTR). Their conclusion is in line with a report from Canalys over the third quarter of 2009.

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Free Brazilian Mobile Content Report

December 23rd, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Research & Stats | 2 Comments »

For those interested in selling or sourcing their content in Brazil, the School of Management of the Politecnico di Milano has released a free 68 pager detailing out the mobile content market.

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IO’10: Michael Haberl

December 15th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

Based in Vienna, Austria, Xendex is one of those old companies that has managed to stay alive during the credit crunch and years of consolidation we are now leaving behind. The company recently surprised many with a big $3.5 Million investment and seems ready for whatever 2010 will bring.

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Financials: Gameloft’s Q3

November 3rd, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Gameloft has reported its third quarter financial results. The company has shown growth once again. The company is up 15% year-on-year but that’s less growth then the other quarters have shown.

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Paid Android Apps for Japan

October 27th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

One of the bigger gaming markets has opened up for commercial Android developers as Google has started to process payments for the Japanese Android Market.

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Cyanogen Keeps Working on Alternative Android

October 5th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

Last week, Android developer Cyanogen received a cease and desist letter from Google because it was violating the rules as it was distributing closed source applications in it's own Android versions.

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Android Market Reaches 10K Apps

September 10th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

A small success for Google this week. Their Android Market has crossed the 10.000 apps bar. Sure it's not as much as the iPhone does, but it still means less competition as well.

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1% Rejection rate at Android Market

August 27th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

Google opened up on the Android Market approval process. From the 6000 applications that have been submitted, the company has only removed 60 of them because they where not suited for the public.

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OpenMoko Runs into Problems

April 7th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Smartphones & Tablets | No Comments »

For those that remember (this goes some time back), OpenMoko was a foundation that aimed at building mobile phones based on open source hardware (and probably software).

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The Motley Fool: BUY Super High Risky GLUU

March 30th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | 1 Comment »

The guys behind The Motley Fool wrote a very interesting article on Glu. The editor advises to buy Glu’s shares, though he claims that they are a super high risk because he doesn’t know any cash positive mobile game publisher