Mobage, the global mobile entertainment network for Android, is now out of beta and fully launched. The development was announced today by ngmoco and its parent company DeNA Co.

Mobile ad network Tapjoy launched its new personal app marketplace, a way of sifting through app clutter by offering individualized recommendations to users. The service uses factors including ratings, previous app usage, and which apps are being used by friends.

Rockstar Games, a publishing label of Take-Two Interactive Software, has released the trailer for its highly anticipated "Grand Theft Auto V." It’s the latest in a top quality, internationally successful and genre-defining franchise that often serves as a bogeyman for anyone with an anti-game agenda.

Yahoo! Inc. launched several new mobile, tablet, and PC products today (Nov. 2) as part of the company’s philosophy of delivering the Internet to each of its users in a personalized digital experience.

Blazingly fast cars! Explosions that register on the Richter scale! Incredibly attractive people of both genders! No, it’s not the new Michael Bay film or the latest game in Electronic Arts’ "Need for Speed" franchise – it’s both. In a logical creative partnership, Bay has directed a spectacular commercial for EA's Nov. 15 U.S. release "Need for Speed: The Run."

Clearspring, the McLean, Va.-based developer of social sharing and analytics platform AddThis, said on Tuesday it has acquired New York-based XGraph, a developer of audience technology designed to organize users by shared connections and interests. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Mobile engagement platform Urban Airship is acquiring SimpleGeo, which is best known for enabling app developers to include location-aware features, in an all-stock deal announced today. Further details on the terms were not made available.

Yahoo may be dealing with scarier things than Halloween, but even so the Yahoo Search Data team took the time to determine this year’s most popular costume searches. The charts, as always, are dominated by movie and television characters – of which “sexy Smurf” might just be the most truly frightening.

Real-time event coverage company Livestream is launching a revamp of its platform that will add new features including multimedia integration, dynamic quality selection and often-requested DVR functionalities like replay.