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John Paczkowski in News on February 2 at 8:05 am PT
Robin Burrowes, former head of Xbox Live marketing in Europe, has a new job. At Apple. The exec, who served as head of product marketing for Xbox Live in Europe for three years — and before that, as marketing manager for Xbox U.K. — is heading to Apple’s European office to oversee App Store marketing. Burrowes is the latest hire in a parade of gaming executives recruited by Apple that includes former Nintendo PR manager Robert Saunders and former Xbox PR manager Nick Grange.
Tricia Duryee in Commerce on January 25 at 9:00 am PT
One of PopCap’s lead developers is starting a company that has come up with a new way to make money using incentives in free mobile apps.
Katherine Boehret in The Digital Solution on January 24 at 3:26 pm PT
Katie looks at Subtext, a free iPad app designed to enable and encourage conversations among readers within digital books themselves.
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Peter Kafka in Media on January 5 at 4:57 am PT
The Financial Times has purchased Assanka, a London-based Web and app developer. The FT has already been working closely with the 12-person shop on projects like
the Web app it built to replace the one
it removed from Apple’s App store, as well as an Android app. FT CEO John Ridding announced the deal via an internal memo this morning.
Kara Swisher in Media on January 2 at 1:07 pm PT
Not the big one, but it’s an Apple event, so everyone will get excited anyway.
John Paczkowski in News on December 28, 2011 at 3:36 am PT
50,000 app submissions in 14 months.
Tricia Duryee in Mobile on December 27, 2011 at 10:07 am PT
A record number of applications were downloaded on Dec. 25, making it a very “appy” Christmas for at least some mobile developers.
Tricia Duryee in Commerce on December 13, 2011 at 4:00 am PT
Nope, it’s not owned by Apple, Google or even Amazon.
Arik Hesseldahl in News on December 12, 2011 at 5:53 am PT
So many people said it wouldn’t work, and yet it appears that it has.
