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Metaflow Implements Mplayit Support

October 4th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution | No Comments »

Metaflow has announced a new deal which introduces support for the Mplayit environment. This allows Metaflow users to access Mplayit's channels as well as demo environments.

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Binbit Acquires Acme Mobile (Amob)

October 4th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | 1 Comment »

Acme Mobile (Singapore), an aggregator from the old days, has been acquired by Binbit (Mexico). With the acquisition, Binbit is now working in 26 countries world-wide.

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Fishlabs Heads to the Zeebo

October 4th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Brew | No Comments »

Fishlabs has announced that it will be starting up development of games for the Zeebo platform. The first mobile game that will be ported to the bigger screen will be Galaxy on Fire.

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AdMob Exclusive Supplier for Tapulous

October 4th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Ad Funded Gaming, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Tapulous is probably one of the best known music game developers on the App Store. With their huge userbase, they are an excellent platform for AdMob to develop new advertising strategies.

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TAG Games jumps into iPhone Publishing

October 4th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

iPhone publishing seems to become a hot business at the end of 2009. Mobile games developer TAG Games Has announced that the company will be joining the growing group of publishers on the App Store.

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ROK Acquires Player One

October 2nd, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

It has been silent around Player One for a long time but today's news is certainly big for them. The mobile games and TV publisher has been acquired by ROK Entertainment.

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MGB in Prague

September 30th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in About Us | 1 Comment »

Yesterday, we touched down at Prague airport to visit the great team behind Pixalon Studios. As most of you know, they are supporting us fully in keeping this blog alive.

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Ballmer “We screwed up with Windows Mobile”

September 28th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Windows Mobile | No Comments »

Microsoft's Steve Ballmer has acknowledged that Microsoft has failed with their strategy on Winodws Mobile. Toward investors he admitted that Windows Phone (Mobile 7) should have been out there already.

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Digital Chocolate Introduces NanoVerse

September 25th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial, Marketing Strategies | No Comments »

Digital Chocolate's CEO Trip Hawkins has unveiled their new virtual goods platform called NanoVerse. On it, they sell what they call NanoStars. Indeed, this is something new that they even patented.

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