RIM’s Latest BB10 Developer Plan: Grow Your Own

A clean well-lighted place for BlackBerry devs.
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RIM to Devs: We’re Ready for Your BlackBerry 10 Apps

“It’ll be BlackBerry 10 on 10-10.”
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RIM’s BlackBerry App World Tops Three Billion Downloads

Some 2.5 million downloads a day. That’s 2.4 million more than you’d expect, right?
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RIM Will End PlayBook Sideloading to Escape “Android Market Cesspool”

Developers are getting restless about piracy.
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Adobe Admits It Is Saying Buh-Bye to Flash for Mobile Devices

Looks like Apple’s Steve Jobs was right (as usual).
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Apple Will Take 76 Percent of App Market Revenues This Year

Mobile apps are fast becoming big business, generating a remarkable amount of revenue for something that’s only been around a short while. In 2009, combined revenues for the Big Four app stores–Apple’s App Store, Google’s Android Market, Nokia’s Ovi Store and Research In Motion’s BlackBerry App World–were about $830.6 million, according to IHS iSuppli. By 2010, they’d risen to $2.1 billion. And by the end of 2011, they’re expected to hit $3.8 billion.

RIM Consumes Cellmania

Research In Motion’s M&A group is keeping busy these days. Last week we heard it was talking to mobile advertising network Millennial Media about an acquisition. Today comes word that RIM has quietly purchased Cellmania, mobile content platform and white-label app store provider.
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BlackBerry App World? Catchy.

Research in Motion’s effort to emulate Apple’s phenomenally successful App Store has a new name: BlackBerry App World. Not much of an improvement over “BlackBerry Application Center,” but an improvement nonetheless.
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