Book publishers have to make reading books as addictive and habit-forming as playing Angry Birds, Charles Duhigg, author of “The Power of Habit” (also known as “that book about how Target knew a teenager was pregnant before her dad did”) argues. Read More »
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Squawk! Angry Birds/Fruit Ninja ‘Rip-Off’ Reaches Number-One In App Store
By Ingrid Lunden
Oct. 31, 2011, 10:48pm
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They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but this may be stretching the expression a bit too far. Cut the Birds, a game release… Read More »
Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and Google (NSDQ: GOOG) are trying to aid app developers in an important case that will decide whether the developers are… Read More »
Angry Birds Aside, Think Globally, Act Locally When It Comes To Mobile Apps
By Ingrid Lunden
Oct. 3, 2011, 3:36pm
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There’s no question that apps have become a global phenomenon in the mobile world — and who doesn’t want to catapult a cute red bird onto s… Read More »
Angry Birds Watch Out: Club Penguin Puffles Launching On An iPhone Near You
By Ingrid Lunden
Sep. 15, 2011, 8:45am
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Social media sites like Facebook and Twitter, and games like ‘Angry Birds’ are some of the most popular applications on smartphones today, b… Read More »
At our paidContent Mobile conference in May, Andrew Stalbow and Peter Vesterbacka paired up to tout the value of a major studio partnering w… Read More »
Mobile Lowdown 8-12-11: Apple; BBM; Android; Huawei; AT&T; Angry Birds
By Ingrid Lunden
Aug. 12, 2011, 3:16pm
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A look at some of the big stories in mobile today: Apple: Looks like there could be a media event scheduled for September 7 or 8; some are… Read More »
You can almost see the lawyers for Rovio debating whether or not they’d like to use the exploding black bird or the dive-bombing white bird… Read More »
Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS), which is struggling with lower in-store sales, has a new promotional offer: Bring an old e-reader into a store,… Read More »
Mobile Lowdown 6-29-11: Amazon, Rovio boost WP7; Square; Google+ Mobile
By Ingrid Lunden
Jun. 29, 2011, 3:43pm
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A look at some of the big stories in mobile today: – Windows Phone 7: Couple of good-news boosts for the Windows Phone 7 apps platform. A… Read More »
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Barnes & Noble’s website sales are surging, but in-store sales are down. The retailer’s secret weapon to lure shoppers back into stores? Ang… Read More »
By Ingrid Lunden
Jun. 21, 2011, 11:05am
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Looks like Rovio is not the only mobile content company that wants to catapult itself into being the next Disney of the entertainment world.… Read More »
Rovio, which has made a small fortune spinning out products from the wild success of its “Angry Birds” mobile games, is now moving into book… Read More »
By Ingrid Lunden
May. 26, 2011, 5:04pm
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With half a million apps and counting out there, and problems discovering the good ones, it’s likely that we are going to start to see some… Read More »
One of the greatest mobile gaming hits ever just keeps on rolling: Angry Birds has hit the 200 million-downloads milestone, Rovio’s Mighty E… Read More »
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