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Ice Age gets a new freemium game for iOS
Gameloft has launched its latest freemium game, but we sense this could be controversial. It’s called Ice Age Village, and is based on the popular series of animated films for kids. It’s the ‘for kids’...
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‘Bait apps’ case against Apple over kids and IAP continues
The days when children were merrily running up hundreds of dollars of in-app purchases on their parents’ iTunes accounts with games like Smurfs’ Village and Tap Fish are pretty much in the past. There...
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1.5m downloads for iPad app Paper in two weeks
Paper made a splash when it launched on iPad two weeks ago: an app for sketching, drawing and writing, where the app itself is free, but the virual brushes and pens are charged for via in-app...
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GREE’s quarterly revenues reach $560m – 93% from IAP
Japanese social mobile games firm GREE has announced its financial results from the first three months of 2012 – its fiscal Q3. The company’s revenues rose 182% year-on-year to $560m, with net income...
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Apple fighting back after Russian hacker cracks IAP security
Cupertino, we have a problem. In-app purchases (IAP) have become one of if not THE most lucrative revenue sources for iOS app developers, yet Friday saw the launch of a service called In-Appstore...
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In-app purchases account for three quarters of iPhone app revenue
In-app purchases accounted for 76% of US App Store revenue for iPhone apps in February 2013, up from 53% in January 2012, Distimo claims in its new report. The top grossing iPhone app in the US App...
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UK games groups defend freemium model, as OFT investigation gets under way
Britain’s two trade bodies for the games industry, TIGA and UKIE, have responded to the news that the OFT is to investigate kids’ apps and IAP with strong defences of the freemium model. Both groups...
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Apple launches IAP guide on App Store
With in-app purchasing something of a contentious issue at the moment, Apple has published a guide to IAP on the App Store. The guide, simply titled Learn More About In-App Purchases, is largely aimed...
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Britain’s kids run up £30m bill through unauthorised in-app purchases
Britain’s children have added £30m to their parents’ bills through unauthorised in-app purchases, according to new research from Windows Phone, with eight year olds adding an average of £59 to...
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