June 21st, 2012

app annie
Apps analytics firm App Annie has published some new stats – as an infographic, inevitably – on the global apps market. Well, the iOS and Android apps markets. When taken together (i.e. ignoring other...

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April 5th, 2012

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Photo-sharing app Instagram has been downloaded more than 1m times by Android users in its first day on Google’s Play store. The store makes public every app’s number of installs, with Instagram...

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April 2nd, 2012

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Mobile analytics firm Flurry has published some interesting app store data showing that on a per-user basis, Amazon’s Appstore for Android is much more lucrative than Google’s own Google Play...

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March 22nd, 2012

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A lot of people won’t be getting much work done today, thanks to the long-trailed release of Rovio’s new Angry Birds Space game. It’s available today for iOS, Android, Mac and PC. As...

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March 21st, 2012

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Independent developer Andrew Shu’s Reddit Is Fun app has been removed from the Google Play store by Google. Why? “Violation of the sexually explicit material provision of the Content Policy.”...

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March 12th, 2012

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Games developer Mika Mobile’s struggle to turn a profit from Android may have lessons for other companies mulling app launches on the Google Play Store. “Our Android apps aren’t making...

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