The world’s superpowers as measured by active iOS and Android devices

Android and iOS are pushing the rapid adoption of smartphones across the globe, but especially in the BRIC countries of Brazil, Russia, India, and China.

Playnomics launches PlayRM customer relationship management platform for games

Playnomics launches a customer relationship management platform for games that markedly improves player retention.

Mobile app monetization just heated up: Inneractive raises $3.5M

Today, app monetization firm Inneractive closed a $3.5 million financing round to accelerate global expansion and double down on its private ad exchange strategy.

Death Rally paves a developer’s path into brave new world of games (interview)

Death Rally is a foot in the door for digital games at Remedy Entertainment. Maybe its next big thing will be a mobile game?

Flurry Personas uses analytics to target apps at consumers

Flurry is launching its new service to help app creators build more relevant features, target ad campaigns, and earn more advertising revenue.

Flurry gets into cloud services with AppCloud, powered by Trestle purchase

Mobile app analytics and advertising company Flurry is embarking on new territory today with the launch of the Flurry AppCloud, a collection of cloud services that developers can easily implement in their apps.

Flurry didn’t do this alone: The company …

Activision taps Swrve for mobile game analytics and A/B testing

Activision Blizzard and Swrve are proving that mobile games are as important as those for consoles.

Mobile VP for Activision reveals motivation behind Flurry partnership

Last month, Activision struck a partnership with analytics firm Flurry to create a third-party publishing platform that would allow outside developers to elease games under the Activision Mobile brand. The developers retain control over their intellectual property and Flurry provides …

Learn the ins and outs of running your app biz at MobileBeat 2012

There’s more to running an app business than just building a cool app. Join us at MobileBeat 2012, where some of the minds behind popular apps like ESPN Mobile, Z2Live, and CBS Interactive discuss what it takes to create a …

Meet our all-star GamesBeat 2012 moderators

We’re pleased to announce the all-star moderators for our annual GamesBeat 2012 conference next week, July 10-11 in San Francisco.

Here’s the list in order of appearance and the session they’re moderating.

Day one

Dean Takahashi, the lead writer …

Meet our MobileBeat 2012 speakers: Designer Yves Béhar, Pandora’s Tom Conrad, & more

We’re just over two weeks away from MobileBeat 2012, VentureBeat’s annual mobile conference, and we’ve lined up some of the biggest names in the industry to delve into the event’s core theme: “Design is the new battleground.”

We’ve snagged Yves …

Activision Publishing teams up with Flurry to release third-party mobile games

Activision Publishing is about to make some big investments in mobile games. One of the ways it will do so is through a third-party publishing platform via a partnership with analytics firm Flurry.

Under the partnership, Activision Publishing will release …

Report: Amazon pulling ahead of iTunes in average revenue per user

TinyCo's report on how well its game Tiny Village is doing across multiple mobile platforms reveals that fragmentation might be to blame in the loss of revenue from Google Play releases.

Flurry releases new analytics features to improve monetization

Flurry launched new analytics features today that allows customers to take better control of how they measure and access the metrics for their apps. The features will help app developers make more money from their apps.

Customers can now create …

Mobile menace: China just passed U.S. in smartphone activations

China now leads the world in smartphone activations.

Until last month or so, the U.S. was the leader, claiming around 22 percent of the world’s Android and iOS activations. But between February and March 2012, China eclipsed the U.S. and …

A roundup of stories from the Game Developers Conference

Our GamesBeat team is exhausted after five days of covering the biggest show for game developers in San Francisco. Here’s a day-by-day roundup of the major stories that we wrote from the Game Developers Conference this week. We’ve also thrown …

Flurry launches AppSpot mobile app ad platform

Mobile analytics firm Flurry announced a new mobile app advertising platform called Flurry AppSpot.

Peter Farago, vice president of marketing at Flurry, said the platform  combines Flurry’s analytics with a new ad platform aimed at unlocking the full potential of …

PlayHaven launches “Zynga in a box” mobile-game monetization platform

PlayHaven, a real-time mobile marketing startup that has enabled a four-fold increase in in-app purchases for its game developer customers, is adding new monetization features that will help developers make even more money.

PlayHaven’s new monetization features use analytics and …