GlobalFun Reorganizes
December 2nd, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | 1 Comment »
This summer, GlobalFun has been through organizational restructuring by closing down its Buenos Aires development unit. With continued changes in the market GlobalFun, is adapting itself again.
AppventCalendar.com’s Failure to Launch
December 2nd, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Marketing Strategies, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »
Blacksmith Games has launched Appvent Calendar.com. On the site, consumers are intended to find a free game from the App Store. We said ‘Intended’ didn’t we..?
Skyhook Releases Android Developer Survey
December 2nd, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS, Research & Stats | 1 Comment »
Skyhook Wireless, a company specialized in LBS services for both mobile game and application developers, has issues a survey under thirty of their clients to check platform satisfaction on Android.
PopCap Confirms DSiWare Support
December 2nd, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: DSiWare | No Comments »
Though Nintendo’s DSiWare channel is still developing to become a success (the launch games were not that exciting), PopCap has announced that it will bring some good games to the channel.
Android Developer Challenge 2 Winners Announced
December 2nd, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Game Awards, Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »
Google’s Android Developer Challenge is over and the company has announced a number of winners. In total, there were 33 winners which makes it one of the biggest competitions we’ve seen to date.
William J Miller to Lead Glu – UPDATED
December 2nd, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in People | No Comments »
Back in July, Greg Ballard announced he would be leaving Glu, but he would hang around until a replacement had been found. Now, William J Miller will follow up as Interim President and CEO.
End2End Continues as Billing Specialist
December 2nd, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »
Two days ago, we announced the end of End2End Content Services. Today we received a message that the company will continue as service provider toward operators and app stores. Billing services will be their primary focus.
Nokia Announces ‘1’ Maemo Phone for 2010
December 1st, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: MeeGo | 1 Comment »
Though Nokia announced Maemo as replacement OS for its high end handsets (and so, replacing Symbian), the company has revealed toward Reuters that it will release only one Maemo phone in 2010.
New iPhone Spotted
December 1st, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »
Apple has started field tests with a new generation iPhone. This iPhone was spotted by developer Pandav who reported it to MacRumors.com. The new iPhone identifies itself as iPhon3,1. The current iPhone 3Gs is known as iPhone2,1.
What’s up at Arphiola
November 30th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »
We didn’t even finish our story on Youpark and already we received messages that a distributor called Arphiola is having problems paying bills and respecting contracts.
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