VentureBeat Week in Review - How an eighth grader dethroned Angry Birds - January 24, 2011

View this email as a webpage | Forward to a friend January 24, 2011 FORWARD THIS EMAIL JOIN US ON TWITTER / FACEBOOK How an eighth grader dethroned Angry Birds Different versions of mobile game sensation Angry Birds have dominated iPhone games for the past year, but a game called Bubble Ball just ousted Angry Birds: Seasons as the free app champion, as covered in our biggest story of the week. Other popular posts looked at the conflict between Google and mobile game maker Kongregate, and at the upcoming release of Call of Duty Black Ops First Strike. - Anthony Ha TOP STORIES Eighth grader knocks Angry Birds out of the top free spot on the App Store January 17, 2010 | Dean Takahashi Does Google get games? Kongregate mobile arcade banned from Android Marketplace January 19, 2010 | Matthew Lynley Black (Ops) Tuesday: Prepare to get nothing done February 1 January 17, 2010 | Dean Takahashi What makes a great entrepreneur? January 17, 2010 | Scott Edward Walker RockYou signs deal with Doom creator John Romero’s social game studio Loot Drop January 20, 2010 | Dean Takahashi UPCOMING EVENTS Mobile World Congress - February 14-17, Barcelona DEMO Spring 2011 - February 27-March 1, Palm Desert, CA Structure Big Data 2011 - March 23, New York City VENTUREBEAT JOB BOARD Senior Software Engineer - Cloudworks San Mateo, CA Appirio Web Infrastructure Engineer San Francisco, CA HearSay Senior Product Manager Redwood Shores, CA MarketShare COMPANIES IN THE NEWS Activision Blizzard, Ansca Mobile, Apple, GameStop, Google, Kingisle Entertainment, Kongregate, Loot Drop , RockYou, Treyarch PEOPLE IN THE NEWS Dan Bunting, Jim Greer, Tom Hall, Jonathan Knight, Kari Nay, Robert Nay, John Romero, Robert Sirotek Follow us on Twitter Friend us on Facebook Join us on LinkedIn Provided by , the leading news source on technology innovation. 50 California Street, Suite 3270, San Francisco, CA 94111 If you would like to no longer receive this newsletter, click here to change your subscription preferences, or click here to unsubscribe. © 2010 VentureBeat