It became one of the top app developers with apps like Super Wall, Hug Me, Likeness, Vampires, Slideshows, and Birthdays.
Most recently, the company purchased one of the top iPhone game developers, ngmoco.
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Of the top 25 grossing developers, all bar one (popular music service Pandora with its Pandora Radio app) are game developers.
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The Xbox 360 shoot-em-up took the top game prize at the Game Developers Choice Awards which form part of the week-long GDC show.
This risk aversion will cause the majority of top developers to double down on their existing franchises, causing a sizable ramp up in sequels to existing hits.
Now, the CrunchBase team has started to demonstrate what top developers using the CrunchBase API do with the data.
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HTML5 is rapidly becoming the top choice among app developers.
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This is a big leap forward for the Windows ecosystem as not only is one of the top game engines now available for developers to begin working with, it is also the full PC implementation.
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But in the time since then, Twitter has really dropped the hammer on developers who have built businesses on top of the platform.
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Anxious to win a spot on at least the top 100 lists, some developers are resorting to tricks.
Getting into the top ten apps on iTunes is something developers aspire to, but figures from Distimo show the huge disparity between iTunes markets around the world and across the week.
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Vaitsos and his partners became consumed with finding new ways to sculpt the terrain and integrate the architecture into it, an obsession that even led to a modification in Greek building regulations, which were recently overhauled with an eye to conservation and sustainability: The government now awards bonuses to developers who top their buildings with earth.
Uhrman said some top developers will be reworking popular titles for the Ouya.
Having started as a basic, over-the-top (OTT) messaging service, the company has evolved itself into a social platform where third-party developers can sell apps and take a 20% cut of revenues.
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The Singhs are willing to pay the top price at any land auction and team up with local developers in cities where DLF is a newcomer.
On top of that, there are occasional moments where the developers pull a few surprises and push the images out of the screen, introducing a cinema-like effect that is very impressive.
At the top of that list is fixing iCloud, which as been especially vexing for developers whose apps depend on its somewhat flawed infrastructure.
Demand Equal Pay for Women is just a page of data, though its developers have done some of their own calculations on top of the public data, and the site has some good statistics: closing the gender pay gap, they say, would add half a trillion dollars to the consumer economy.
Since for now the Zii EGG is aimed at developers and OEMs, it runs fairly vanilla Android on top of Creative's ZMS-05 chip.
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In other words, the Farmville developers of the world deserve their share of the credit for hoisting Facebook to the top of its class.
Johnson, a history buff, wanted to give the company a name that would sound stable, important, trustworthy and would enable him to attract top developers.
"Android developers can really build apps that feel like part of the phone, not just something glossed on top, " says Espelien.
The companies, such as Heroku, EngineYard and Dotcloud, provide services on top of Amazon EC2 for web developers to more easily launch and maintain websites.
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