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Rovio, the maker of the wildly popular Angry Birds game announced it has surpassed the a half a billion download mark. Rovio proclaimed it the most downloaded game in the history of gaming, this was said by the “Mighty Eagle” Mikael Hed on stage at the Slush Conference in Helsinki. Here is more detailed layout of…
Mobile advertising startup MoPub, founded by former AdMob and Google employees, has an interesting idea, to provide app publishers and advertisers with a place where they can buy and sell ad inventories. The new MoPub Marketplace is touted as the “first self-service, real-time bidding platform for mobile advertising,” aimed at giving publishers access to new…
Well, it may not be the official release date for any of the US carriers but we can now expect to see the Samsung Galaxy Nexus in Europe by November 17th. The date was announced informally at the recent Galaxy Note event from Samsung and while it’s not as soon as we’d like, a solid…
Twilio, the cloud communications company we’ve already talked about in the past, is bringing its Twilio Voice solution to Europe. The company opened an office in East London to allow developers to buy local UK telephone numbers instantly from the Twilio.com website and Twilio’s API. The service is used to build web and mobile applications…
Virgin Mobile USA is launching a new device for heavy texters, Samsung M575, on payLo plans. Available exclusively through Best Buy for $79.99 (excluding taxes), this QWERTY keyboard-equipped phone also comes with a 2.4-inch QVGA display, 2-megapixel camera, Bluetooth and a memory card slot. When it comes to pre-installed software, there are IM and email…
Chillingo, which is a division of Electronic Arts, unveiled 7 new Android games, some of which are already available for download in the Android Market. As usual, they scored some talented indie developers to help them get more eyeballs. Without further ado, here’s what they got: Spider Jack (MaxNick) – available now – Say hello…
Mobile payments company iZettle, which offers smart card reader for iPhone, received 8.2 million EUR (about $11.2 million) in Series A funding led by Index Ventures with co-investor Creandum and further investment from Charles Dunstone, CEO and Co-founder of The Carphone Warehouse. The new money will be used to expand outside of Sweden as well…
Mobile ad network Greystripe unveiled Ad Boosters, new ad units developed to make advertising more relevant, contextual and “valuable to consumers.” There are two types of these ads – industry-focused units and social units. The former are focused on a specific, targeted vertical such as retail, consumer packaged goods, automotive, travel, technology, health and restaurants;…
The Motorola RAZR has been officially announced and it’s certainly one doozy of a phone. The handset is packing some very high-end specs that should satisfy the power users of the world and is kept in a terribly thin body. First up, the RAZR is a mere 7.1mm at its thinnest point, which makes it…
It looks like Google is beginning to gear up for its upcoming developer conference for 2012 and the Google Code Blog suggests you save the dates of April 24th and 25th.With Ice Cream Sandwich and the Galaxy Nexus just a handful of hours away until the official announcement, we can only wonder what’s in store…