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Zattikka buys three social gaming startups & takes on Zynga
Both the social games development space and London’s AIM stock exchange welcomed a new entrant on Monday.
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BBCWW invests in mobile game tech firm Spaceport
BBC Worldwide is making a strategic investment in a company whose technology will let it port its games to any mobile platform.
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Evernote and Pinterest just had a baby: Enter the new Springpad
Springpad has long been compared to Internet note-taking sensation Evernote, but starting today Springpad will likely be compared to another darling of the startup world, visually oriented social network Pinterest. On Wednesday Springpad evolved into its third iteration, transforming the information capture service into a social networking engine. This social network, however, isn’t built around friends or relationships, but rather items of interest, lists or tasks.
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Saavn, India’s Spotify, dances to a different tune
“Almost everybody does iOS first and Android second,” remarked Rishi Malhotra when I met him in San Francisco recently. But Saavn, the Indian music service whose President and COO Malhotra is, took a different route and started with Android. An iPhone app did come next, but Saavn doesn’t stop there: The company is now working on clients for BlackBerry, Symbian and the feature-phone platform J2ME.
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Amazon turns on in-app purchasing for its Appstore apps
Amazon is turning on a key money-making tool for developers in its Appstore for Android, letting app makers offer in-app purchase through Amazon. The service, which has been in testing recently, allows developers to easily sell in-game currency, upgrades, content and magazine issues with one click, helping developers, especially makers of freemium apps, pull in substantial revenue.
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E-books for smart kids on ‘dumb’ phones
Worldreader has already distributed over 75,000 e-books to students in sub-Saharan Africa. Now the literary nonprofit is launching an e-reading app designed for basic mobile phones.
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Does Agency Pricing Mean Higher E-Book Prices? That Depends
The term “agency pricing” may not be familiar to those outside the book industry, but it has become a serious issue with the Justice Department’s antitrust case against Apple and five major book publishers for colluding on prices as a defensive move against Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN). One of the key factors in that case will likely be whether consumers have been harmed by this model – for example, whether they are paying higher prices for e-books as a result, a topic that my PaidContent colleague Laura Owen and I debated recently.
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Hey Devs, Amazon Apps Can Make Almost As Much As iOS Apps
It’s fairly obvious by now that iOS and Android are the top dogs in mobile, so the battle is on for the third platform player. I wrote off BlackBerry a while ago, and got some confirmation of that Thursday. Windows Phone is looking better and better to be No.
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Verizon’s Mobile TV Plans Don’t Make Sense (Like Its Proposed Spectrum Buy)
Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam is pitching a form of integrated wireless and wireline cable TV package if the government approves its plans to buy $4 billion worth of spectrum from a variety of cable companies. McAdam told the Wall Street Journal about his plans, but so many aspects of the article don’t add up that it reminds me of sleight of hand.
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How To Use Fancy Gestures On The iPad (And Why You Should)
At the beginning of last year, Apple added iPad gesture controls in iOS 4. 3 as a developer option. And with the debut of iOS 5 in October of last year, Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) made these multi-finger gestures official. Since then, however, I really haven’t seen the company promote this functionality the way it does for its laptop trackpads.
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