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Gaming Surge Helps China’s Tencent Beat Q1 Earnings Forecasts
Earnings // May 13, 2020

China’s multinational conglomerate Tencent beat earnings forecasts in the first quarter of 2020 with total net revenues of $15.2 billion, up 26 percent from the same period of 2019, according to a press release. The company posted a profit for the quarter of $4 billion,...

App Annie: Mobile Companies Valued 6X Higher Than Those Without Mobile Focus
Mobile // January 15, 2020

Mobile data and analytics company App Annie released its annual report The State of Mobile in 2020, offering a deep dive into the mobile ecosystem in 2019. The annual report offers a perspective of mobile’s impact across industries and the global economy. Consumers downloaded a...

Deep Dive: Online Gaming Struggles With Subscription Competition
Subscription Commerce // August 02, 2019

The video game market was one of the first to move into the subscription economy, even before gaming went online. Companies like GameFly cropped up back in 2002, sending physical discs and cartridges to customers. Gaming subscriptions shifted direction as the world moved online, making...

How Fortnite Turned ‘Free’ Into $3B In Profits
Retail // January 05, 2019

Until extremely recently, the word “fortnight” was a fancy way to say “two weeks” – and it wasn’t likely to come up unless one happened to be studying for the SATs. But in the year 2018, that changed – the word went from being a...

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Gaming Surge Helps China’s Tencent Beat Q1 Earnings Forecasts

May 13, 2020
China’s multinational conglomerate Tencent beat earnings forecasts in the first quarter of 2020 with total net revenues of $15.2 billion, up 26 percent from the same period of 2019, according to a press release. The company posted a profit for the quarter of $4 billion, up 29 percent from last year, thanks in part to […]

App Annie: Mobile Companies Valued 6X Higher Than Those Without Mobile Focus

January 15, 2020
Mobile data and analytics company App Annie released its annual report The State of Mobile in 2020, offering a deep dive into the mobile ecosystem in 2019. The annual report...

Tencent To Increase Investments In Payments

August 17, 2017
Tencent, the Chinese mobile games and social media company, is gearing up to increase its investments in online payments, cloud services and artificial intelligence. According to a news report in Reuters,...

Unity Buy SDK From Shopify Allows Game Developers To Sell Real Goods

April 21, 2017
The launch of the Unity Buy SDK from Shopify will make it easier for developers to build a store with real items right inside a game. According to TechCrunch, players can...