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Screen Digest expands mobile application store coverage

20 Aug 10
  Screen Digest has expanded its coverage of mobile application stores with new five year forecasts for Google's Android Market mobile application store. Coverage of Apple's App Store has also been...
Section: | Analyst Commentary

Mobile Market Monitor - Games Q2 2010

18 Aug 10
EA Mobile continues to lead the Western mobile games market with revenues of $52m for Q2 2010. Despite achieving growth for the 12th consecutive quarter, Q2 saw revenue growth slow to 4 per cent, the lowest since Q3 2007. Gameloft remained in second place in the Western market with revenues of $42.7m. Glu Mobile continued to decline, with revenues dropping to $16m, its lowest total since Q1 2007.
Section: | Reports | Market monitor

RTL and ProSiebenSat.1 to launch catch-up portal

16 Aug 10
German commercial broadcasters RTL and ProSiebenSat.1 have revealed they are planning to launch an online TV portal in Germany and Austria, offering a single point of access for catch-up TV content. The...
Section: | Analyst Commentary

Games Market Monitor: Social Gaming in H1 2010

12 Aug 10
The social gaming market exploded in 2009. Despite having only just emerged from such an intensely formative phase, social gaming in the first half of 2010 has brought with it some strict lessons about consolidation, platform ownership and software maturity. Screen Digest looks at these developments, largely through examination of Facebook as a gaming platform in H1 2010.
Section: | Reports | Insight

Google acquires microtransactions platform Jambool

11 Aug 10
Google has acquired payment solution platform Jambool, for $55m, reportedly accompanied by a $10-15m earnout bonus upon accomplishing certain performance targets. Jambool owns and operates the Social Gold...
Section: | Analyst Commentary

Mobile Music Continues To Evolve

28 Jul 10
The story of mobile music has evolved along a different path to the rest of the record business. Mastertones - ringtones that use sound recordings - were an unexpectedly fertile revenue source in markets all across the world. In India, South Korea, Japan and China, ringback tones became another lucrative business. But mobile music revenue in the West declined dramatically with the falling popularity of mastertones around 2007. Cloudbased mobile music streaming services have emerged over the past year or two and are becoming increasingly popular but they have not been able to offset this decline.
Section: | Reports | Insight

Mobile Market Monitor: Funding and M&A trends Q2 2010

16 Jul 10
This quarterly report provides an overview of the latest VC funding, mergers and acquisitions in the mobile industry.
Section: | Reports | Market monitor

Google is staying in China after all

12 Jul 10
Google and Beijing have reached a new compromise that will allow Google to keep operating in China. In an unexpected development, Chinese authorities have renewed Google's Internet Content Provider...
Section: | Analyst Commentary

Aurora Feint raises funds for Android expansion

12 Jul 10
Aurora Feint, US creator of social mobile games platform OpenFeint, raised $4m in its second funding round. The investment, from Chinese games developer The9, will help expand its platform to Google's Android...
Section: | Analyst Commentary

Mobile content market: Application stores transform the market

12 Jul 10
2009 was a difficult year for the operator distributed mobile content market, particularly in mature Western markets as content shifts from operators' portals to off-portal application stores and the availability of free media content increases. In response to a recent update of Screen Digest mobile media forecasts, Ronan de Renesse, Head of the Mobile Intelligence team, delivered a webinar highlighting key facts and figures regarding the impact of application stores on the mobile content market. Key topics in the presentation included: 2009 trends for mobile video, mobile games and mobile music; impact Apple's App Store on the mobile content market; challenges and opportunities for media companies in the mobile application space; the role of mobile in multi-screen strategies.
Section: | Presentations | Analyst Presentation

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