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AlexPham

Nice on-scene photo by @benfritz. Foreground: Call of Duty co-creator Jason West's back. Background: A lot of lawyers. 1:44 PM May 24th via web
Activision / Call of Duty trial delayed to 6/1, according to @benfritz 1:42 PM May 24th via web
Via@AssociatedPress. Silicon Valley tech exec put fake bar codes on 100s of Lego sets at Target so he could buy them cheap, sell them online 1:07 PM May 22nd via web
@NPD Part 2: Kids on average spend just < 1 hour on mobile device each session. 87% of boys play games on those devices vs. 80% of girls. 10:44 AM May 22nd via web
@NPD : There's an average of 12 apps on mobile devices that kids have access to, 88% of those apps free. Over half the apps are games. 10:41 AM May 22nd via web
Great @BenFritz profile of how Megan Ellison, daughter of Larry Ellison, is rocking the indie film world latimes.com/entertainment/… 3:31 PM May 21st via Tweet Button
Bungie working on "Marathon" -- a successor to its 1994 game for the Apple Mac? Story w/ @benfritz lat.ms/KEEEOT 3:19 PM May 21st via web
Bungie's 4-game contract with Activision made public in Call of Duty lawsuit. Story on contract detals w/ @benfritz lat.ms/KEEEOT 3:18 PM May 21st via web
Facebook IPO to investors: "Thanks for your money. Now shut up." newyorker.com/talk/financial… 10:11 AM May 21st via web
@mmaltaisLAT Thanks for the RT love, MiMa! XO 11:54 AM May 19th via web in reply to mmaltaisLAT
Is Facebook a graveyard for games? @pjmcnealy of @digitalworldRes says it's possible. latimes.com/entertainment/… 2:44 PM May 18th via Tweet Button
Documents unsealed in Activision Call of Duty trial re: "Project Icebreaker" reads like spy novel: latimes.com/entertainment/… 6:48 PM May 16th via Tweet Button
Activision settles with EA in Call of Duty case. Judge denies Activision motion to postpone trial vs. West, Zampella, Alderman. Set for 5/29 4:16 PM May 16th via web
Facebook.com received 9% of all US Internet visits in April 2012. Via @experianHitwise 1:54 PM May 16th via Twitter for BlackBerry®
Lucian Grainge+Scooter Braun = Musicmeisters with a forward-thinking strategy latimes.com/business/la-fi… 9:25 AM May 15th via Tweet Button
Cricket signs deals with @TheOrchard, @Tunecore, @CDBaby, doubling catalog on Muve Music. Muve now has 600K paying subscribers. 8:22 AM May 15th via web
dsarno Time's fact check of widely-cited Apple rumormonger DigiTimes. Mostly misses, some hits. techland.time.com/2012/05/14/dig… 9:26 AM May 14th via Safari on iOS Retweeted by AlexPham
nickdemartino LA Times music critic Randall Roberts decries the loss of "my music" in the era of Spotify and its ilk. well argued latimes.com/entertainment/… #FB 9:31 AM May 14th via Tweet Button Retweeted by AlexPham
Blizzard: The # of subscribers to World of Warcraft remained the same at 10.2 mil, halting an 18-month trend of decline. 1:20 PM May 9th via web
The new face of music retail (Hint: It's not Jack Black) latimesblogs.latimes.com/music_blog/201… via @PopHiss 11:56 AM May 9th via Tweet Button