Archive for the ‘Analysis & Editorial’ Category

Edge is Back

October 8th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Yesterday, Mobigame sent out a notice that their Edge game is back on all App Stores. Due to trademark issues with Tim Langdell, the game was unavailable in some markets for some time.

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AdMob’s OS Metrics for August

October 7th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

AdMob has revealed new usage statistics from it's advertising network. One of the first things that pops up is that iPhone OS has become the leading OS by taking the no#1 spot from Symbian.

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Mobclix: 16.000 Games on App Store

October 5th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

We often claim that we have 70.000 competing apps on the app store, but that is not exactly true. The number can be narrowed down dramatically if you look at Mobclix' numbers.

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Digital Chocolate Introduces NanoVerse

September 25th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial, Marketing Strategies | No Comments »

Digital Chocolate's CEO Trip Hawkins has unveiled their new virtual goods platform called NanoVerse. On it, they sell what they call NanoStars. Indeed, this is something new that they even patented.

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HandyGames Releases Second iPhone Games Analysis

September 24th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

In their analysis series, HandyGames checks out the smaller marketing details of games on the App Store. As with the first series, they manage to find nice little details that can matter for marketing.

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PICNIC09: Vodafone 360 in Detail

September 24th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

Today in Amsterdam, Vodafone presented the Vodafone 360 environment we spoke about earlier this week. The CEO of Vodafone UK admitted they underestimated the introduction of the iPhone, but this should make up for it.

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Vodafone Renames MyWeb to 360?

September 22nd, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

Many sources say this week will be the big rollout of the Vodafone 360 platform in several countries. A few months back we already reported on a softlaunch of Vodafone MyWeb in the Netherlands.

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Glu Expanding to Social Platforms

September 22nd, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

Though the search for a new CEO continues, Jill Braff has announced that Glu will be heading toward a more social approach. That strategy is part of the restructuring of Glu Mobile.

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Thumbstar, a year after…

September 17th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial, Distribution | 4 Comments »

Most of you probably remember how TelcoGames went bust, leaving debts all over the market and of course a lot of employees on the streets. One of them, Martin Kitney, has started his own aggregator and has been trading for over a year now.