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Imagine Publishing has announced it has given every member of staff a free iPad. The company is celebrating the end of its first full year of publishing iPhone and iPad digital editions of its magazines. It is one of the first publishing firms in the world to make its entire …

Ray Sharma, founder of Canadian mobile developer XMG Studio, had some stern words of criticism for EA Mobile and Apple at the Mobile Games Forum in London today. "I think Electronic Arts really screwed the industry at Christmas time," said the former investment banker, speaking on a VC and research …

Just two and a half years after its debut in July 2008, over the weekend the Apple App Store saw its ten billionth app downloaded. Free game Paper Glider was actually the app in question, and was downloaded by Kent resident Gail Davis who won a $10,000 iTunes gift card …

Around seventy per cent of transactions were made in the last year

Landmark likely to be passed this month

Almost 10 billion apps have been downloaded through the App Store worldwide. To celebrate this milestone, Apple is holding a competition to reward whoever downloads the 10 billionth app. The contest is only open to the firm’s US customers, with the winner receiving an iTunes Gift Card worth a whopping …

Apple posts a record $6bn profit, way above city expectations

Apple’s quarterly profit reached $6bn in the three months ending December 25th – a year-on-year rise of 77 per cent. The record profit was backed by record revenue of $26.74bn – up from $15.68bn made in the same period the year prior. Apple sold almost 50m products during the quarter. …

Analyst group estimates 30 million apps sold each day

Steve Jobs is to take medical leave from the company, the Apple CEO told colleagues in an email. Jobs will take the time off to focus on his personal health. In 2008 he began a six-month absence at Apple to undergo and recover from a liver transplant, as part of …