Hard Lines was featured as FAAD’s Free App of the Day on Monday the 15th of August, and so far (2 days in) we’ve seen huge amounts of downloads. On Sunday (it was made free at about...

Earlier this week, Japan’s Gree bought OpenFeint for $104 million. The nice thing about Japanese transactions is that listed companies have to give details of the transaction. Here are the details they gave about the underlying revenues and...

This is a guest post from Rob Weber,VP and Co-Founder of W3i With over 52,000 games available in the iOS App Store, and thousands of games also available for Android, gone are the days of smartphone gaming...

Video streaming service OnLive has long been a business looking for a market. The company offers high-quality, streamed, console titles to a PC or its proprietary $99 set-top box. It aimed to eliminate the need for consumers...

Pocketgamer has an interesting debate going on. In the blue corner is Jon Jordan, writing about the rise of ngMoco, impressed by its commitment, its ability to pivot and its successful exit for up to $400 million...

Widely trailed last week, ngmoco today confirmed its $400m acquisition by Japan’s DeNA. Not bad for a business that is barely two years old. Kudos to Neil Young and the rest of the team. ngMoco was one...

Mary Meeker has made a career out of peddling new media hyperbole. During the dot com boom, Mary Meeker was the Morgan Stanley analyst who got a reputation as the ultimate Internet cheerleader. She was endlessly optimistic...