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Forecast: Mobile content revenues to reach $65B in 2016, driven by games, video
Annual revenues generated from content delivered to mobile phones and tablets are on pace to surge roughly $25 billion over the next three years, reaching $65 billion worldwide by 2016, Juniper Research forecasts.
Amazon expands Appstore for Android to China, trumps Google with paid apps
Amazon is extending its Appstore for Android to China, becoming the first Western company to offer premium-priced Android applications to consumers in the world's largest smartphone market. Rival Google Play's Chinese efforts remain limited to free Android apps.
Urban Airship, Parse and OtherLevels explain the proper way to use push notifications
As the weather in North America finally starts to warm up, it becomes hard to imagine a lot of people looking for updates via REI's Snow and Ski Report. And yet the app--which allows consumers to set up a customized series of alerts about conditions where they want to hit the slopes--is the first one that Brent Hieggelke cites as an example of using push notifications properly.
iOS developers react on Twitter to Chinese app store that pirates their work
It's hard enough for iOS developers to monetize their own mobile apps and games, but now they face the kind of competition some might never have expected: an app store in China that allows free downloads without a jailbreak.
Google closes loophole on non-Play store updates for Android apps
Google has revised its Android developer terms and conditions to close a loophole that allowed Facebook to upgrade its social networking app without leveraging the Google Play storefront's update mechanisms.
App Annie: Apple App Store revenues still 2.6x higher than Google Play
Apple's App Store generated revenues 2.6x greater than the rival Google Play storefront during the first quarter of 2013, down from a multiple of 4x during the fourth quarter of 2012, analytics provider App Annie reports.
Amazon Appstore for Android expands to nearly 200 countries
Amazon is extending its Appstore for Android to close to 200 new markets, including Australia, Brazil, Canada, Mexico, India, South Africa and South Korea, dialing up the pressure on rival Google Play.
UPDATED: Google removes 60K apps ahead of Google Play refresh
Google Play app deletions reached a record-high of 60,000 in February, indicating Google is escalating efforts to clean up the storefront in tandem with a redesigned shopping experience on Android devices.
Apple's app dominance is ready to be challenged
Leave it to Walter Mossberg to explain what should be glaringly obvious to the entire world. In a recent Wall Street Journal column the gadget guru addressed a question that probably still comes off the lips of its executive readers who buy a Windows Phone 8 device and wonder why it doesn't have Siri.
Canalys: App store downloads surge 11% in Q1, revenues reach $2.2B
Downloads from the four leading application storefronts--Apple's App Store, Google Play, BlackBerry World and Microsoft's Windows Phone Store--climbed to a total of 13.4 billion worldwide during the first quarter of 2013, an 11 percent increase over the fourth quarter of 2012, research firm Canalys reports.
