December 23rd, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Research & Stats | No Comments »
In Nielsen’s latest report, the analyst shows that the iPhone is now holding 4% of the market. With this achievement, Apple has beaten the BlackBerry in one of the most important markets. BB is now second with 3.7% for the 8300 series devices.
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December 23rd, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »
The past week, Business Insider reported that Oberon Media (owner of i-Play) is restructuring. Amongst the changes, COO Don Ryan will be leaving the company in pursuit of his own dreams.
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December 23rd, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »
Following successful iPhone launches like I Am T-Pain and Leaf Trombone, developers Smule announced to have raised $ 8 Million in its third round of VC funding.
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December 23rd, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A, Gaming Gear | No Comments »
Good news for the good old Zeemote as the device has been saved from going extinct by Aplix last week. Aplix decided to acquire the company that went into problems earlier this November.
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December 23rd, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Events & Conferences | No Comments »
It’s going well with the MGF event. Last week, they signed up AdMob, ARM, Scoreloop, GetJar, the EGDF, the IGDA (known from board member Tim Langdell’s who sues anybody that writes the word EDGE), IDE Agency and the Dutch Games Association as new event partners.
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December 22nd, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in About Us | No Comments »
Untill the 22nd I will be visiting the Pixalon Studios office in Prague. This means MGB will have less updates (in other words, we will probably only blog breaking news)
December 21st, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in About Us | No Comments »
Good news for all you Kindle lovers out there. Months ago we tried launching on Kindle but failed because we did not have a US bank account. Today however, we discovered Amazon has launched it in the end.
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December 17th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »
Who doesn't know Trip Hawkins? He founded a mammoth in the gaming industry called EA, a console called the 3DO and this year, as CEO of Digital Chocolate, he invented the Omni Gamer!
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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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December 15th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »
Starting today, executives in the mobile games industry can start submitting their industry perspective for 2010 and a few lines on how their company will deal with the changes agead.
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