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Updated: In-App Purchases To Overtake Sales From Paid Apps By 2013
The consumer draw of free apps over paid apps has been well-documented, and so has the rise of in-app payments as a route to making money from those free apps. New research out today predicts that in-app purchases will, in fact, become the most dominant way that app developers will make money in years ahead.
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Report: Sony’s Hirai Promoted To President, Stringer Still Chairman And CEO
In a move that further sets up Kazuo Hirai as the heir apparent at Sony (NYSE: SNE), the company has promoted him to president, taking that title away from Howard Stringer but keeping Stringer in place as CEO and chairman of the board, according to a report.
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Game On Or Game Over? Zynga Opens Above IPO Price But Then Drops
The long-awaited IPO of social games giant Zynga has finally arrived, but those hoping for quick, early flips of the stock may end up having their bubble burst today: its shares opened above its initial offer price range, before quickly dipping down again.
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Rovio Still Talking Up A Mickey Mouse IPO, Now In Hong Kong
Is Rovio’s floatation ever going to happen? For some time now, we’ve been reading chatter about an imminent IPO.
The latest date is 2013, the latest market is Hong Kong. And, this time, the company itself is making bold on-the-record plans…
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Xbox 360 Leads The Way To Engaged TV
Interactive TV, a phrase still used but painful to hear, grates like the name of an old girlfriend, conjuring up hopes long since unfulfilled yet still surprisingly fresh. Gratefully, it’s time to put old notions of interactive TV behind us because this week Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) will release a user experience update to the Xbox 360 that will do for the TV what decades of promises and industry joint ventures have never managed to pull off.
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The Latest Chinese Export: Tencent’s QQ Mobile Browser, Via GetJar
We’ve observed a lot of western companies looking to cash in on the explosive growth of China’s mobile population by taking their products into the country. Now here’s an example of a Chinese giant looking shop its own mobile services abroad: the internet portal Tencent is now distributing its QQ mobile browser in the GetJar app store.
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Five Ways Barnes & Noble’s New Nook Could Compete With The Kindle Fire
There’s this little tablet called the Kindle Fire that has been getting some press recently, but Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) is forging ahead anyway: The company is holding a press conference on Monday at which it is widely expected to announce the new Nook Color tablet. How will Barnes & Noble get customers to care?
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Is Rockstar’s Grand Theft Auto 5 Arriving Next Year?
Rockstar has officially announced Grand Theft Auto V. The latest title in the multimillion-selling crime adventure series has no official release date as yet, but the publisher is promising a teaser trailer on November 2.
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PlayJam Takes $5 Million To Go Global With Its Connected TV Games
PlayJam, which distributes its own and now third-party casual games to TVs in Europe, is taking a $5 million first investment round to help it do the same in the U.S. and Asia.
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Microsoft Earnings On Target As PC Business Still Stagnant
The PC business is not the most dynamic place to be these days, but fortunately for Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) it has a growing presence in the gaming and entertainment markets to offset slow growth in the PC market. Microsoft met expectations for profit and exceeded them for revenue as a slight decline in revenue from Windows was offset by gains in from Xbox, Office, and its business software division.
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