NBC Taps Starcut To Build Olympics Mobile Website: With the Olympics kicking off tomorrow, I doubt it’s just getting started today, but NBC announced that its mobile website for Olympics…

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A trio of new research reports detail the dramatic and swift rise of mobile in terms of subscription growth, mobile web usage and mobile payments for goods downloaded to mobile…

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The latest mobile games report from Nielsen Mobile shows in startling detail how hard it is to make money in this business. Of the 141 publishers tracked, shockingly few—only 55—made…

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Although revenues hit an all-time high, Glu’s (NSDQ: GLUU) CEO Greg Ballard explained today on the company’s Q2 conference call that it encountered challenges during the period because of the…

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Glu Mobile (NSDQ: GLUU) reported its second-quarter earnings today, saying that it hit a record-high for revenue of $23.7 million, a 45 percent increase from the year-ago period when it…

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-- Treemo added to T-Mobile deck: Treemo, a Seattle-based mobile social network, announced today that it has been added to the T-Mobile deck, in addition to AT&T (NYSE: T) and…

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San Francisco-based ngmoco, which is short for “Next-Generation Mobile Company” (we are partial to the name because it also has “moco” in it), has received its first round of funding…

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THQ (NSDQ: THQI) Wireless saw its second quarter revenues grow 17.7 percent year-on-year to $5.147 million. However, it represented 3.7 percent of total THQ revenues, compared to 4.2 percent a…

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Electronic Arts (NSDQ: ERTS) has released its second quarter earnings (PaidContent has details)—of interest to the mobile world is that EA Mobile brought in revenues of $44 million, an increase…

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There’s a fair bit of news to come out of the Develop 08 conference on mobile games, and the talks and panels are discussed below. Some interesting notes to come…

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Indiagames, the mobile and online gaming company in India, plans to buy a 51 percent stake in a US mobile games firm, and will raise the funds through a new…

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The iPhone 3G is not for me. I’ve returned mine exactly two weeks after I committed a Friday and Saturday morning to buy one. Good thing I was on assignment.…

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VCs Say It’s Not All About The IPhone: VCs at the MobileBeat conference have warned developers they should “intelligently hedge their bets across multiple platforms"… ie, not build things just…

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Gameloft (EPA: GFT) has released its sales figures for the second quarter (not its earnings report, which will come out later): It sold 25.0 million euros (US$39.3) worth of games…

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-- *AT&T* Navigator available worldwide: AT&T (NYSE: T) has extended its GPS navigation service outside the U.S. borders to more than 20 countries now. The new coverage areas include most…

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Mitch Rotter has been promoted to senior VP of content acquisition and strategy at Thumbplay, the company announced today. Rotter brings more than 15 years of experience in music and…

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-- *Glu* Mobile launches Batman game: Glu Mobile (NSDQ: GLUU) released The Dark Knight, a mobile game based on the latest Batman installment set to hit U.S. theatres July 18.…

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SendMe Mobile, an off-deck provider of ringtones, wallpapers and other mobile content, expects to announce today that it has signed an agreement with Warner Music Group (NYSE: WMG), to sell…

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UK mobile games maker Player X is buying Madrid-based mobile games publisher Gaelco Móviles for an undisclosed cash amount - its first acquisition and part of a European expansion plan.…

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Electronic Arts (NSDQ: ERTS) kicked off E3 in Los Angeles with fresh details on games currently in development and planned for release through the remainder of the year. Out of…

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Motricity, the mobile infrastructure company that acquired InfoSpace (NSDQ: INSP) Mobile for $135 million in October, has been relatively quiet following a burst of publicity over its controversial headquarters move,…

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Montreal-based Airborne Mobile, which was purchased by Japanese-based Cybird for more than $90 million in 2005, confirmed today that it has restructured the company, which includes a management buy-out, layoffs…

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So where exactly are all the game-changing entertainment applications for the iPhone? After skimming through the App store that launched today on iTunes, it shows that of the 554 applications,…

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The gaming industry came out early and strongly in favor of the new features the iPhone brought to the scene just over a year ago. Developers constantly chatted about how…

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Riot Games, a two-year-old independent games developer and publisher, has received $7 million in a round of funding from Benchmark Capital and FirstMark Capital. The company also brought on two…

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