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Daily Update for February 1, 2012

by Steven Sande (Feb 1st, 2012)

It's the TUAW Daily Update, your source for Apple news in a convenient audio format. You'll get all the top Apple stories of the day in three to five minutes for a quick review of what's happening in the Apple world. You can listen to today's Apple stories by clicking the inline player (requires ...

Neil Young: Steve Jobs's death hindered Apple's high-def music efforts

by Steven Sande (Feb 1st, 2012)

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame honoree Neil Young has been focusing on high-definition music for some time. At the News Corp. D: Dive Into Media event yesterday, Young said that he had been in discussions with Apple personnel -- including the late Steve Jobs -- about ways to improve digital music ...

We Rule hits a million sessions in 24 hours

by Mike Schramm (Mar 26th, 2010)

Ngmoco CEO Neil Young tweeted on the official account that We Rule has reached a million app sessions in a 24 hour period, which means we can probably call their big freemium experiment an early success. We've seen quite a few people talking about We Rule and their accounts in our comments and on ...

Ngmoco's We Rule is live, but buggy

by Mike Schramm (Mar 22nd, 2010)

Ngmoco's We Rule is now available for download worldwide in the App Store -- it's the first ground-up game developed for their big freemium experiment, in which they give away a game and then support it with periodic updates, bringing in revenue with in-app purchases driven by social interaction ...

GDC 2010: Ngmoco's Neil Young on how freemium will change the App Store world

by Mike Schramm (Mar 15th, 2010)

On the third day of GDC 2010, Ngmoco's Neil Young took the stage in one of the largest rooms at the conference to talk about what his company had "unlearned" in its time in the App Store. Ngmoco has become a large and polarizing figure in the world of App Store development -- after starting out ...

Ngmoco picks up $25 million in funding, buys Freeverse

by Mike Schramm (Feb 22nd, 2010)

TechCrunch is reporting that iPhone game company Ngmoco has just picked up $25 million in another round of fundraising, which they used to buy out Freeverse, one of the most storied Mac game developers (and recently, iPhone game developers) on the block. The two companies were already close -- ...