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As promised, you can now share your favorite apps from the Chrome Web Store to Google+
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When we spoke to the Chrome team way back in April, they hinted that Google+ would become a bigger part of the Chrome Web Store experience, and today they followed through. Here’s what the Chrome team had to say about it: Starting today, the Chrome Web Store helps you do...
Operators Globe and SingTel launch cross-platform app store in the Philippines
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Philippines telecom operator Globe has hooked up with its Singaporean counterpart SingTel to bring a new apps store to its subscribers free of charge, as a report from ABS-CBN reveals. The duo are launching MyAppsMall, which will carry more than 20,000 items that includes games, social networking, sports and other apps....
Facebook Says It May Budge On 30% Revenue Share For Apps That Aren’t Games
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There was a little gem that we almost missed yesterday in Facebook’s amended IPO filing. But it looks like Facebook acknowledged that it may have to move away from a 30 percent revenue share with app developers if it expands Credits, its virtual currency, and payments beyond gaming. This is...
Kixeye's Games on Facebook Are Not Cute or Cuddly, Just Like Its Prickly CEO
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Farms don’t have rocket launchers, but games built by Kixeye do. You also won’t find purple cows or other decorations — just blood. Kixeye CEO Will HardinThat’s how Will Harbin, Kixeye’s CEO, described his company’s social games to me last week over the phone. Harbin is passionate about building games...
Geoloqi Launches Platform for White Label Geolocation Apps
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Geoloqi has been around as a multipurpose geolocation app for iPhone and Android since 2010, and its API has been available since last summer. But today the Portland, OR startup is releasing its real product: the Geoloqi SDK for iPhone and Android, which enterprises and developers can license to...
Instagram's $1 Billion Payday Is Proof That Apple Has The Best Platform For Developers (AAPL)
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In October 2010, famed New York venture capitalist Fred Wilson wrote that startups should invest more in Android than iOS because Android was wide open and it was going to be the dominant operating system. While he's correct Android is the dominant operating system, he's incorrect that it's the...
Kiip Goes Beyond Games, Lets Any App Reward You With Real-Life Prizes
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What if you won prizes for getting Likes on Instagram, listening to songs on Pandora, or making Highlight connections around town? Today Kiip expands its real-world rewards platform to allow giveaways in any type of app, not just games. Since Kiip-client brands pay developers to promote through them, today’s launch gives...
Which mobile OS’s apps make most money? Surprise! It’s BlackBerry
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BlackBerry development may be on steep decline, but the platform still remains a profitable one for the developers that have stuck with it. According to a new study from mobile analytics firm Vision Mobile, the average monthly revenue from a BlackBerry app is $3,853, compared to $3,693 for iOS and...
Google rolls out Android PDK with an eye to fixing fragmentation issues
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Google is looking to fix Android’s platform fragmentation by giving device manufacturers earlier access to upcoming versions of the Android OS. Starting with Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, selected OEMs will receive a Platform Developers Kit (PDK) two to three months before a new version of Android is released. Hugo Barra, Android’s director of...
How RIM Splitting Would Affect The Mobile Industry (RIMM, AMZN, FB, MSFT, GOOG, AAPL)
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This is a news note from Business Insider Intelligence, a new research and analysis service focused on the mobile industry. Subscribers get full access to our chart library, plus the underlying data for many charts. Sign up for a free trial here. Over the weekend, an anonymously sourced story in...
Facebook Has A HUGE Opportunity That People Are Ignoring (FB)
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Most of Facebook's revenue today comes from advertising, but the company is sitting on another huge opportunity: selling virtual and real-world goods through its payment platform. Today, Facebook submitted a third update to its IPO filing. Most of the new info related to legal matters, like the Yahoo patent...
Intel releases native x86 Android 4.0 emulator for faster app debugging
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Android developers have gotten a nice surprise today: an Android 4.0 x86 image has been released for the platform's software development kit. For the vast majority of people developing on computers that use x86 processors, the update will let the emulator run at native speeds and with fewer bugs,...
The Fascinating Way Facebook Phrases Its Credits Tax
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I remember way back in 2007 when Facebook first launched their app platform. Developers were free to add their own advertising and user transactions, Zuckerberg said, and Facebook wouldn’t take a cut. Developers flocked to Facebook and a symbiotic relationship emerged. Some developers got fat and happy on money made...
Flash developers on Adobe's premium features and the future of browser-based games
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Adobe recently announced plans to introduce premium features to its Flash platform — developers will gain access to hardware acceleration and better mouse support, but Adobe will take 9 percent of revenue beyond the first $50,000 made. What will this mean for the legions of Flash developers out there...
Coderwall spicys up resumes for coders with “geek cred”
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Standard paper resumes are starting to disappear, and Coderwall wants to help replace them. The startup creates resumes for coders and developers to use that show off the projects they have done. Using a gamification platform, developers can earn badges for projects they accomplish and skills they’ve obtained, also know as...
Oracle v. Google can't MAKE APIs copyrightable -- they HAVE BEEN for more than 20 years
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The Oracle v. Google jury is now working on its verdict on Phase One of the trial, copyright liability. It has gone home for today, Tuesday, and will resume its work tomorrow, Wednesday.The judge instructed the jury that, for the purposes of its deliberations, the structure, sequence and organization of...
How RIM Splitting Would Affect The Mobile Industry (RIMM, AMZN, FB, MSFT, GOOG, AAPL)
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This is a news note from Business Insider Intelligence, a new research and analysis service focused on the mobile industry. Subscribers get full access to our chart library, plus the underlying data for many charts. Sign up for a free trial here. Over the weekend, an anonymously sourced story in...
CrowdStar and iWin bringing Facebook games to GREE’s mobile platform
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Developers CrowdStar and iWin are bringing some of their most popular Facebook games to GREE‘s upcoming mobile network, which launches in Q2 2012. CrowdStar is moving forward with its plan to focus more on mobile titles, bringing a new entry for its “Top Girl” series exclusively to GREE’s platform this summer. The developer...
Waiting for Gold From Microsoft Mobile Games
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By Ian Sherr and Shira Ovide Making apps for Apple’s mobile devices is thought of somewhat like digging in California 150 years ago. There are many success stories, including the likes of Rovio Entertainment Ltd.’s “Angry Birds,” and PopCap Games’ “Plants vs. Zombies,” which have convinced many independent developers that...
Facebook IPO filing includes $100M discrepancy
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There is a $100 million discrepancy between what Facebook earned in payments revenue and what it paid out to developers, according to revenue figures in its IPO filing last week. In the filing it says, “In 2011, our Platform developers received more than $1.4 billion from transactions enabled by our...
Facebook made $1B on $3.7B in revenue last year
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Facebook has been on a rocket ride to social network dominance. Now we know that it’s making some money from that ride. The social-networking company made $3.7 billion in revenue in 2011, according to the S-1 documents it filed with the SEC today. Facebook filed the documents as the first...
Twitter Slaps Developers in the Face and How They Can Fix It
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In a move that was telegraphed by Fred Wilson’s (Twitter investor) post titled The Twitter Platform's Inflection Point where he criticized Twitter platform developers for “filling holes” in Twitter’s user experience, the Twitter team have indicated they will start providing official Twitter clients for various mobile platforms. There have...
Payments Are A $557M Business For Facebook — That Could Expand From Games To Apps
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Within Facebook’s S-1, the social network revealed that its Payments business is bringing in $557 million in revenue per year. As the company explains, it currently requires Payments integration in games on Facebook. But according to the filing, Facebook is considering what could be very big moves in the payments...
Open Feint X aims to make iPhone games as social as Facebook apps
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Facebook game companies have become financial juggernauts. That’s because games spread in a viral way to lots of Facebook users. And a small percentage of those users buy virtual goods with real money. If the iPhone could duplicate that pattern, it might also one day generate lots of revenue for...
Facebook considers its platform a competitor to Android and iOS, and that makes it worry
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There are still many interesting facts being unearthed in Facebook’s IPO filing today, many of which we are dissecting for your pleasure. One of the most interesting I found was that 51% of Facebook’s 845M monthly active users are mobile users too. That means that 425M of Facebook’s MAU’s are...
Google Launches Apps Marketplace for the Enterprise
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Google launched an application marketplace today comprised of services from third-party providers that integrate with the Google Apps ecosystem. The news has been anticipated for some time. In particular, it shows how much Google is embracing open-standards and leveraging its search and Google Apps platform to attract third-party developers. Sponsor...
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