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Today’s Gamers Report DE

January 19th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Research & Stats | No Comments »

Today we have the second report from Todaysgamers. Today’s Gamers is releasing a lot of interesting information about the international (mobile gamer). Today, we cover stats from good old Germany.

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OIVO: Belgian Teens and their Mobiles

January 19th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Research & Stats | No Comments »

Belgian consumer authority OIVO has released a report that details mobile usage under teens. According to the report, 90% of the teenagers (10-17 yr) own a mobile phone.

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Snackable Proves there is still Money in SMS Gaming

January 19th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: SMS | No Comments »

We all know there is still money in good old WAP games, but who would have considered SMS is still making money? Snackable Media has managed to turn over $170 Million last year.

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App Store Developers Donate via App Relief

January 19th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

The earthquake in Haiti has woken up the caring side of a number of App Store developers. Through the website AppRelief.com, they are announcing to donate incoming revenues to the victims.

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Pyramid Research: Chinese Mobile Games Market Worth $2.5B by 2014

January 18th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Research & Stats | No Comments »

Analyst Pyramid Research expects the Chinese mobile games market to be worth $2.5 Billion by 2014, but that is highly depending on the support of the operators in the market.

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Greystripe Hires new VP of Sales

January 18th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in People | No Comments »

Greystripe has announced a new hire. Kevin Granath has been appointed as the new Vice President of Sales. He will be responsible for growing the sales teams as well as developing the ad sales strategy.

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Google Drops Nexus One Price

January 18th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS, Smartphones & Tablets | No Comments »

Following the bad sales results, Google has already started to slash the price of their Nexus One Android phone (which will probably lead to more dissatisfied consumers who paid full price).

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Apptizr Launches App

January 18th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Marketing Strategies, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Apptizr.com is a recommendation site for iPhone apps that has been honored in a lot of media. To expand its success, the company behind it has now launched an iPhone app.

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Bada Developer Portal Launches

January 18th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Bada | No Comments »

Samsung has unveiled their new Bada developer portal. It will allow all developers to sign up and submit their applications for the platform. At the same time, they can also enter the Developer Challenge that is still running.

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Rockstar Takes on TAG Games

January 18th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Rockstar has released Grand Theft Auto Chinatown Wars on the iPhone. With this release, TAG Games’ Carjack Streets is getting some tough competition on the platform where it was released in Q2 2009.