Archive for October, 2010

Interview: Andy Mackenzie on AppCon, AppJam and AppXtra

October 29th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Events & Conferences | Comments Off

As most of you know by now, the AppJam, AppCon and AppXtra conferences will be organized in one and a half week from now. We spoke with Andy Mackenzie about the events.

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Digital Chocolate Adds David Fox to its US Team

October 29th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in People | Comments Off

David Fox has joined our San Mateo headquarters team of Digital Chocolate and will function as the Vice President of the company and report directly to the CEO.

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SPB Expands its Connected Gaming Network to iOS

October 29th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS, Platforms: Windows Mobile | Comments Off

SPB Software has announced the availability of SPB Online Games. SPB probably noticed the value with a lot of social gaming networks receiving investments or getting acquired lately.

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PayPal to Target Mobile Payments

October 28th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Ad Funded Gaming | Comments Off

Though the company has been very active in mobile payments for some time, PayPal now seems to have gotten serious about it as they expect to process $700 million in sales in 2010 alone.

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Cut The Rope Passes 2 Million Downloads

October 28th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | Comments Off

EA’s first press release for Chillingo landed in our mailbox today. The company announced that Chillingo’s recently launched Cut The Rope game has passed 2 million downloads on the App Store.

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Angry Birds Halloween Sells a Million Downloads

October 27th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial, Platforms: iOS | Comments Off

In just six days after the launch, Rovio announced that Angry Birds Halloween and Angry Birds Halloween HD (iPad) have sold over a million copies on Apple’s App Store.

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Playstation Phone Leaked!?

October 27th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Gaming Gear, Platforms: AndroidOS | Comments Off

Breaking news from Engadget. It seems the new Playstation Phone SonyEricsson has been so mysterious about has leaked out onto the internet, or at least a prototype of it.

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10 Million Mobile Devices Support Flash

October 27th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Adobe Flash & Air | Comments Off

According to Adobe, over 10 million mobile devices are supporting Flash. Android gave Adobe a huge push as the company registered 2 million Android downloads since 10.1 was released in June of this year.

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Android Market Tops 100.000 Apps

October 27th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | Comments Off

According to the most recent tweet from the Android Development team, the Android Market has surpassed 100.000 apps, this while Apple just announced their app store holds 300.000 apps.

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Zynga Worth more Than EA!?

October 27th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | Comments Off

According to data from SharesPost, Zynga is now worth $5.51 Billion, effectively beating EA from the throne as second most valuable gaming company world-wide.