Research firm Newzoo teams up with Chinese mobile-intelligence company

Knowledge is power, and selling that power is a lucrative business. That’s one of the reasons that two intelligence firms are partnering up to offer even more data to their customers.

Research company Newzoo and Chinese mobile-device intelligence firm TalkingData are partnering up to tag-team new services for developers looking to better understand global markets. The two outfits have worked together for the last six months on an Android gaming report, but now they want to deepen their cooperation to provide products that they could not do on their own. Mobile gaming could hit $30 billion this year, the firm predicts, and game makers are fighting over every penny of that in the West as well as in China, which is growing rapidly. Newzoo and TalkingData are selling the data that can help those developers figure out where and how to invest their time and money.