Zynga buys Bonfire Studios, Gizmodo says no iPhone on Verizon, and an app giveaway in this weeks mobile news.

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On October 8, 2010

Halfbrick’s CEO, Shaniel Deo, talks about his company’s app development success.

Zynga acquired Bonfire Studios on Tuesday, October 5th. Bonfire Studios is the developer of a game called ‘We Farm’ a Farmville clone.

Vijay Thakkar, technical director at Newtoy (Words with Friends) praises the iPhone’s short development time and speedy bug fixes.

Intel is developing a conversion tool in hopes of getting iPhone developers to port their apps to Intel based devices.

Gizmodo tells those hopeful for a Verizon iPhone early next year to keep holding their breath, it will be a couple of years before that happens.

This isn’t news but something I am sure will interest many of our readers. Sitepoint has an article on tips to get you started in iPhone development.

App Giveaway

This week we have a small app giveaway. If you would like to win a promo code for iPhone App ‘World Weather‘ please leave a comment telling us your favorite iPhone or iPad app. Make sure to use a valid email address so we can send you your promo code. We will select five comments at random to receive the World Weather promo code on October 11th.