Mobile apps news roundup: Login with Amazon, Google Play app revenue catches up, Scopely hires former Zynga GM and more

Google Play Music coming to iOS soon, says Sundar Pichai -- Google senior vice president of Android, Chrome, and Apps, Sundar Pichai announced at the AllThingsD D11 conference that the new Google Play Music service will be coming to iOS soon. Music streaming service Google Play Music is Google's response to Apple's iTunes and Spotify. Amazon announces Login with Amazon, competes with Facebook Connect, Google+ Sign-In -- Amazon announced a new service this week called Login with Amazon, which allows users to sign into apps, games, websites and other services using their existing Amazon credentials with just the click of a button. Most mobile apps integrate Facebook Connect, and Google recently announced Google+ Sign-In, so Amazon is entering a crowded log-in space. Distimo's April 2013 report: Google Play's app revenue market share up 8% since November, DeNA sees even revenue from both major app stores -- App tracking company Distimos April 2013 report revealed that Google Play's app revenue market share between the two major app stores -- Google Play and the Apple App Store -- moved from 19 percent to 27 percent since November 2012, an 8 percent increase. One particular developer that's generating nearly an equal amount of money on both app stores is DeNA. Games from the mobile-social gaming giant generated more than $5.1 million on Google Play in April and $5.6 million on the Apple App Store. Line adds first video game makers to its platform in Square Enix, Konami, Koei Tecmo -- Japan's leading messaging app Line, which has 160 million users worldwide now, has been very selective with adding games to its games platform for Line. Line is still closed to third-party game developers, but the company has recently brought on games from Square Enix, Konami and Koei Tecmo. Puzzle & Dragons reaches 14M users -- Developer GungHo's Puzzle & Dragons is showing no signs of slow down. The puzzle and RPG hybrid added a million players in under three weeks again -- for the 12 time in a row. Scopely hires former Zynga GM Reed Shaffner -- Interactive content company Scopely added former Zynga general manager Reed Shaffner to head its product team. Shaffner will be tasked with overseeing games from the Los Angeles-based company's developer partners as well as its infrastructure.

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