How this purple panda is inspiring games for girls — and angel investors, too
The heroine in Suzanne Xie's first interactive game for kids is no damsel in distress.
Marissa Mayer and Yahoo are on fire, acquiring gaming company PlayerScale
If I can paraphrase a popular Alicia Keys song, this woman is on fire. Marissa Mayer is clearly moving Yahoo back into the center of the Silicon Valley tech conversation.
Amazon giving away ‘tens of millions of dollars’ in virtual money with launch of Amazon Coins
Amazon launched its first digital currency today with a giveaway: 500 free Amazon Coins for every Kindle Fire customer. The coins, which are worth $5, can be used to buy games, app, and in-app purchases.
Apple announces countdown to 50 billion apps served, reveals top 50 apps of all time
Apple is giving away a $10,000 App Store gift card to the lucky iOS user who downloads the 50 billionth app, plus a $500 gift card to the next 50 people to download an app.
How Google is melding our real and virtual worlds with games, apps … and Glass
"It just can't be the case that people are walking around heads down tapping on a screen," he says. "That just can't be the future of the human race."
21 year-old CEO aims to be the ‘next Disney,’ starting with an iPhone game
MinoMonsters is a mobile gaming startup that released major updates to the game today and shared some news surrounding the company's progress.
OMGPOP chief exec Dan Porter’s job goes pop
Almost exactly a year after Zynga bought one-hit wonder OMGPOP for a cool $200 million, OMGPOP chief executive Dan Porter has been replaced by Zynga VP Sean Kelly.
App Annie launches Amazon Appstore analytics: Amazon is all about fun, Google is all about utilities
And what the data shows is that the top apps on Amazon are very, very different than Google Play.
Red Droid rising: the Android game market will eclipse iOS in China
The Fishing Joy franchise, CocoaChina’s most successful title, is currently generating $4,000,000 USD of gross revenue per month, driven mostly by in-app purchases on Android devices.
Hey, devs, PaeDae’s Bartr turns advertising into a free service
Does advertising always have to operate within a pay to play model? PaeDae doesn't think so.