What you’ll hear at DiscoveryBeat 2010: the unexplored territory of finding apps
DiscoveryBeat 2010 is just a day away. The conference at the Mission Bay conference center in San Francisco will have a single-minded focus on...
Apple’s App Store crosses 300,000 apps
Apple‘s App Store now has more than 300,000 apps as of the past day. Mobclix‘s data shows that in the past 24 hours, Apple...
LOLapps games disappear from Facebook for violating terms of service
LOLapps is one of the biggest app makers on Facebook with more than 150 million users playing its games, quizzes, and gift apps every...
Demand for Angry Birds game inundates GetJar’s app store
Demand for mobile game Angry Birds almost sunk GetJar, the app store where the Google Android version of the game first appeared today. GetJar...
DiscoveryBeat 2010: Final agenda at a glance
If you haven’t heard our trumpets blasting over the past few weeks, you may be interested to know that DiscoveryBeat 2010 is coming up...
Video game investors seek to fund games via film financing methods
Two companies hope to bankroll new video games with a financing method that has been used to underwrite billions of dollars for film productions....
Gamers spent $2.6B to $2.9B in first half on digital online goods
While sales of video games in physical stores is declining, the amount spent online on digital goods for games is skyrocketing. Market researcher NPD...
Angry Birds set to flutter onto Android phones
Angry Birds broke all of the records on the Apple App Store in the past 10 months, selling more than 7 million copies. Soon,...
Video games continue a steep decline in September, but Halo: Reach blasts into orbit
The U.S. video game industry saw its sales fall 8 percent in September compared to a year ago, according to the latest sales report...
Virtual goods sales are overtaking ad revenues on the iPhone
Virtual goods are becoming pretty real on the iPhone. Revenue from the sale of virtual goods is now overtaking ad revenue on the iPhone,...