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Orange Inserts Adverts in Mobile Games

December 9th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Ad Funded Gaming | No Comments »

Ad Infuse announced that Orange has selected the company's adInMotion platform to enable mobile advertising targeted toward Orange consumers via various forms of mobile entertainment, including mobile games.

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Additional Import Taxes for Smartphones

December 9th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Smartphones & Tablets | No Comments »

The smartphone market seems to be booming with the success of devices like the HTC Touch Diamond, Nokia N96 and of course the Apple iPhone (though I am still not convinced it is a real smartphone). Yet, the EU is thinking about raising import taxes on them.

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Is Gameloft Reviving Ludigames?

December 8th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

There are some interesting stories at the moment that surround the French mobile game developer Gameloft. It seems the latest bits we found on the company reveal the comeback of Ludigames, their old D2C brand.

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Apple Starts Review Voucher Programme

December 8th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Marketing Strategies | 1 Comment »

Developers have been struggling since the start of the App Store to get their mobile games reviewed by the press. The process of making mobile games available to journalists needed to be improved and clearly it did.

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Nokia Shifting High-End Handsets to Linux?

December 8th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Linux | No Comments »

According to Reuters, Nokia's Ukko Lappalainen has confirmed that the company is exploring the possibilities to run Linux on their high end mobile phones instead of good old Symbian.

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Twistbox’ Play For Prizes Passes 75m Sessions

December 8th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Marketing Strategies | No Comments »

It seems that acquiring the Play-For-Prizes platform from InfoSpace turned out to be a great move for Twistbox, an American mobile game developer and publisher, as it just passed 75 million game sessions.

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Kamar Shah Leaves Nokia

December 8th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in People | No Comments »

Whoever went to a Nokia event or party, was likely to run into Kamar Shah. Without doubt, he was one of the thriving forces behind Nokia's multimedia and mobile games marketing.

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TapTap Goes Big With EMI

December 8th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Brand Licensing | No Comments »

Tapulous, makers of the popular TapTap Revenge game on the iPhone, has started collaborating with EMI to provide the record label with their own version of the popular mobile game.

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Mpowerplayer Launches on Facebook

December 8th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Marketing Strategies | No Comments »

Mobile gaming platform specialist Mpowerplayer has launched it's PR activities on the popular friends site Facebook. Through the app, gamers can play and even earn free downloads.

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Glu Ranked 8 in Deloitte’s Technology Fast 50

December 8th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Game Awards | No Comments »

Though the company is in big financial problems at the moment, Glu Mobile did manage to make it all the way to the 8th position in the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 for Silicon Valley.