Windows Mobile adds Widgets

March 31st, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Windows Mobile | No Comments »

Following the success of many smaller OS's, Microsoft has finally decided to start adding Widgets to Windows Mobile. The Widget platform will be available from Windows Mobile 6.5 onward.

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Handango Goes Whitelable

March 31st, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution | No Comments »

Handango has always been one of the bigger sales channels of mobile content since they started on the early Symbian and Palm devices. Now, they also open up as a full whitelable solution called App Store Accelerator.

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Vodafone MobileClicks 2009 Fund

March 31st, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

At MobileMonday in Amsterdam yesterday, Vodafone announced the plans for the 2009 edition of its MobileClicks fund that aims at helping start-ups enter the world of mobile entertainment and services.

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Mogees Acquires Berrystore

March 31st, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Mobile billing provider Mogees has announced the acquisition of Berrystore. Berrystore is an App Store like sales channel that is aimed at the BlackBerry platform. Unlike RIM?s official BlackBerry World shop, Berrystore offers more variation in pricing levels.

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GetJar Passed 400M Downloads, Shows Survey Results

March 30th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Trends | No Comments »

GetJar announced that it topped 400m mobile app downloads, and in the last month saw a 200% increase iyear-on-year. The company also released survey results taken from over 15,000 of its users, revealing global changes in consumer behavior.

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Thumbplay Raises $6 Million

March 30th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | 1 Comment »

In their sixth round of financing, mobile content and gaming D2C publisher Thumbplay has successfully raised $6 million from various shareholders.

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Digital Chocolate and Samsung Launches Party Island Games

March 30th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution | No Comments »

Digital Chocolate and Samsung have announced a new collaboration to offer a casual gaming and community service on its mobile phones called Party Island (assumable a conversion of the D’Choc Caf

Terrie Lloyd Takes Instinct Entertainment to Japan

March 30th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Instinct Entertainment will be bringing
it’s Flash Mobile game creator platform to Japan with the help of
investor Terrie Lloyd. In return, Terrie Lloyd will get a strategic
share in the company.

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Shareholders Agree on Eidos Acquisition

March 30th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

The acquisition of Eidos by Square Enix is another step closer as the shareholders have reacted positively on the offer of the Japanese games publisher Square Enix (which will make them Square Enix Eidos?)

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CBS Starts Pervasive App

March 30th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Marketing Strategies | No Comments »

In order to promote their newest TV show “Harper’s Island”, CBS is going interactive via the App Store. Via the special Harper’s Island app, viewers can dive deeper into the story as well as guess who will die next.