SkimLinks helps publishers nail affiliate marketing, no wooing required

Skimlinks has raised a round of growth financing from Greycroft Partners for its suite of solutions that automatically turn digital content into affiliate links.

YC-backed Hipset’s YouTube network makes celebrities more rich and famous

Today, Y Combinator company Hipset introduced a multichannel YouTube network that helps musicians grow and monetize their online audience.

The new, more amazing Foursquare is about the money — not the mayorships

Over the past year or so Foursquare has become the best local search app that you're probably not using. And that's all Foursquare's fault.

The 21 ways Google makes money from mobile (infographic)

Google had its first $50 billion year in 2012. With its massive investments in mobile, someday it might make that much just on the little plastic and metal devices we carry in our pockets. Here's how.

Scopely announces marquee game developers as mobile-platform partners

Scopely is working with a small number of high-end mobile developers to make their games more successful.

Facebook updates SDK for iOS to help developers know what’s going on (and make more money)

With tracking capabilities like these, the new SDK is almost starting to impinge on dedicated app analytics solutions like App Annie and Flurry, but of course in a purely Facebook-focused manner.

Playnomics launches PlayRM monetization and analytics for mobile

PlayRM lets game companies optimize monetization for specific users across platforms.

With 20M unique visitors in 2012, Polyvore brings on new CRO

Fashion startup Polyvore is in an enviable position: it has an army of dedicated users importing 2 million items to the site each month, a new iPhone app, and the site pulled in 20 million unique visitors in 2012.

Apple’s app store revenue is 4X Google Play’s … but Google Play is growing 24X faster

Apple's App Store is still the king of mobile apps stores, with the four times the revenue of Google Play, but Google Play is growing much, much faster than the App Store.

Here’s how you become an app store millionaire (interview)

While the average app store developer might make under $10K a year from his or her apps, Joe Kaufman has managed to generate millions of downloads to his hit Lost City and Secret of Grisly Manor apps, generating massive revenue and making him a self-made millionaire.

More dirt on the Facebook IPO: Facebook tried to hide mobile risks

Will this Facebook IPO mess never be behind us?

Case study: How Cleeng can help set up paywalls and registration gateways

Many content publishers looking for new revenue streams have experimented with paywalls, with mixed success. But if you've got content that people are willing to pay for, paywalls can work very well indeed.

Twitter API updates: more authentication, fewer tweets, more rules, certification, and … talk to the hand

Twitter just announced the anticipated changes to its API, intended to "deliver a consistent Twitter experience." Or to tighten Twitter's grip even more on how Twitter users' tweets are used off the social networking site.