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Candy Crush Spurs $1.8 Billion Gaming-Revenue Boom in Africa


Africa’s gaming industry grew almost six times faster than the global average last year, spurred by demand for entertainment on mobile phones, research showed.

Africa’s gaming industry grew almost six times faster than the global average last year, spurred by demand for entertainment on mobile phones, research showed. The market expanded 12% to $1.8 billion in revenue from a year earlier, outpacing the 2.1% worldwide increase, ADG Technology Inc., a New York-based mobile-gaming publisher known as Carry1st, and San Francisco-based Newzoo LLC said in an annual analysis published Wednesday.

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