Co-Founder Yat Siu on Animoca’s Big Menu of “Fast Food” Mobile Games

With more than 350 games, Animoca is all about quantity, and its co-founder says being based away from Silicon Valley helps.
Pretty Pet Salon is one of the more popular games Animoca has published, and started a "Pretty Pet" franchise.

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Apple’s iTunes App Store Passes 50 Billion Downloads

Apple couldn’t have timed its countdown to 50 billion app downloads more perfectly. Just hours after Google revealed during its I/O conference keynote that app installs from its Google Play store had hit 48 billion, the iTunes App Store countdown clock rolled over to 50 billion, passing another major milestone and surpassing the achievement its rival had announced earlier in the day. The 50-billionth app? Say the Same Thing. Brandon Ashmore from Mentor, Ohio, will receive a $10,000 App Store gift card for downloading it.

Coming Soon From Google: A $649 Samsung Galaxy S4 Running Stock Android

The unlocked phone will cost $649, and will go on sale June 26.
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Google I/O: Music, Maps, Messaging and More

All the news, as it happened.
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Apple Nears 50 Billion App Store Downloads, Plans Giveaway

Cupertino will give $10,000 in apps to whoever downloads the milestone app, with 50 runners-up getting $500.
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Nuance’s Swype Android Keyboard Finally Hits Google Play

The battle of the virtual Android keyboards just got a little more interesting with the release of Swype on Google Play.
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Cheap Mobile Games? Bah! Meet zSpace’s $4,000 3-D Monitor.

Cool technology, but the future of video games? Even zSpace says it’s focusing on other stuff first.
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BadNews Shows a New Direction for Mobile Malware

Thirty-two apps are found to behave at first, until they turn bad.
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Google’s Rubin: No Need for Retail Stores

Verizon to Shutter Its App Store in January