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Mextures, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, Grandma’s Kitchen and more on this week’s top paid apps charts

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Photo filtering app Mextures, which is currently featured in the New and Noteworthy category, rocketed up the top paid iPhone apps chart this week, crash landing at the No. 4 spot [...]

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Zynga’s annual shareholder meeting focuses on real-money gaming

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Zynga today held its annual stockholders meeting in San Francisco, which heavily focused on the game company’s real-money gaming efforts, an anonymous shareholder told PandoDaily. Zynga’s shareholder meeting comes one [...]

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Report: Omgpop shut downs as part of Zynga’s restructuring

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As part yesterday’s staff purging at Zynga, which saw 520 employees lose their jobs, in other words 18 percent of its staff, Zynga shut down Draw Something developer Omgpop’s office, [...]

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Hi Guess the Brand, Snoopy Coaster, Tetris Blitz and more on this week’s top free apps charts

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Brand guessing puzzle game Hi Guess the Brand from developer Man Zhang grabbed the No. 2 spot on the top free iPhone apps chart and the No. 9 spot on the top [...]

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5th Planet Games launches Dawn of the Dragons for Android

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Game developer 5th Planet Games today launched Dawn of the Dragons for Android in North America (and worldwide later this week). The social MMO has come along way for the [...]

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Zynga lays off 18 percent of its employees, shuts down 3 offices

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Zynga today let go 18 percent of its employees (approximately 520 people) after shutting down its Los Angeles, Dallas and New York City studios. The studios that were shut down [...]

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Twitter launches Vine for Android, iOS version reaches 13M downloads

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Twitter today announced the launch of Vine, it’s 6-second video sharing app, for Android. Twitter also revealed that Vine (review) has reached 13 million downloads on iOS just five months [...]

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Exclusive: HitFox’s AppLift raises $13M from Prime Ventures

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HitFox today announced that its mobile game marketing platform AppLift raised $13 million from venture capital and growth equity firm Prime Ventures. This is AppLift’s second round of funding, after [...]

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Inside Social Apps profile: GREE’s Sho Masuda

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Editor’s Note: Sho Masuda is vice president of marketing at mobile-social gaming giant GREE. Here’s look into what will be talked about at the “Platform Opportunities for Social Apps” session at [...]

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

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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 [...]