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  • Avatar has made a billion dollars. Twice.

    Avatar has made a billion dollars. Twice.

    Prepare yourself for motion picture history. Seems that Avatar is the first movie in the history of ever to pull in 2 billion USD worldwide. Uncork the champagne people. It only took three weeks to hit $1,000,000,000. It’s been sitting at the number one box office spot for the past seven weekends, pulling in $30 million. [...]

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  • Has Tapjoy solved monetization of free apps on the iPhone and Android?

    Has Tapjoy solved monetization of free apps on the iPhone and Android?

    Tapjoy, the small development shop that brought us the incredible TapDefense for the iPhone [iTunes link], has quietly built out an extremely strong toolset to provide monetization options for app developers. Through two strong offerings, they claim to increase ad revenue for free apps by more than 250%. I first met them at the TechCrunch50 [...]

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