Videogames Using the Power of Fans to Get a Kick Start

Videogames are fast becoming one of the most popular categories that are able to attract start-up capital from everyday people.
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Courting Precious Developers, Facebook Announces an App Center

In a potential boon to its platform, Facebook unveils plans for a centralized app store.
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Is Dropbox Pulling a Honey Badger on the App Store?

Apple catches Dropbox’s hand in the App Store cookie jar, smacks them down.
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Welcome to Mac App Store: Population 10,000

Apple’s Mac App store passes the five-figure mark.
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Amazon Matches Apple’s Revenue Split for In-App Payments

Starting today, Amazon is letting developers in its Appstore sell digital content and subscriptions within their apps, and has confirmed that it will take a standard 30 percent cut of revenue.
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Zynga’s Draw Something Slingshots Past Angry Birds in App Store

Maybe now critics will stop saying that Zynga overpaid for it.
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Why Is RIM Hiring iOS App Developers?

A new RIM job ad seeks developers with at least two years of professional experience in writing iOS apps and the ability to show off a few of them in the iTunes App Store.
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What It Means Now That Zynga Has Bought Its Way Back to the Top of the Charts

By acquiring OMGPOP, Zynga may have set the expectation that if it doesn’t create the most popular game organically — it will acquire it.
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Woody Speaks Mandarin: Disney Brings Chinese-Language Apps to iPad

到无穷大和超越! (To infinity and beyond!)
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Apple Shows Off Sharper 4G iPad, Updates Apple TV

For those who want to relive Apple’s event moment-by-moment, here’s the transcript of AllThingsD’s live coverage.
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