Mobile games distribution company WildTangent announced a partnership with device vendor Asus, which will see Asus tablet owners able to play premium games and receive in-app items for free, paid for by WildTangent’s brand advertisers. The deal follows a similar …
Microsoft launched a “Porting Challenge”, inviting developers who have used the PhoneGap framework to create apps for another platform to bring them to Windows Phone 8. The competition is open to those with an app available in a “non-Windows Phone …
Unity Technologies, the company behind the Unity cross-platform game engine, is making its basic mobile tools available to independent developers and small studios for free. The company said its “gigantic indie developer community” can now publish their games and apps …
AT&T is to support any mobile video chat app on its mobile network by the end of 2013, reports The Verge. The US number-two operator said in a statement that in the second half of 2013, it plans to enable …
Mobile payment company Tabbedout has added Google Wallet as one of the payment options in its Android app, meaning users can now pay restaurant bills on their phones via their Google account. For a limited period, users who pay with …
Revenue from in-app purchases in Google Play has increased seven-fold in the past year, with many of the highest grossing apps in Google Play now offering in-app purchasing, TechCrunch reports. Speaking at last week’s Google I/O developer conference, Google Play …
Apple has reportedly removed the adult social app Bang With Friends from the App Store, just a week after it was introduced for mobile devices. Known as BWF Official in the App Store, the app allows users to flirt or …
Samsung announced its Smart App Challenge 2013, which it described as “a global app competition aimed at finding new applications utilising group communication function”. The South Korean device giant is looking for apps built using its Samsung Chord SDK, which …
Sprint has acquired app development and distribution player Handmark and its “socially powered apps” subsidiary OneLouder Apps, in order to bolster the US operator’s existing Pinsight Media+ advertising arm. Sprint said that OneLouder “immediately infuses Pinsight Media+ with an experienced …
Microsoft said that 40 per cent of the top-15 highest grossing developers in the Windows Phone Store support in-app purchases, although consumer adoption “varies by market, depending on regional trends, consumer preferences, and other regional differences”. The company said that …
