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Android games have notched up more than 2.5 billion downloads since the launch of Google’s Android Market store, taking a 25.6 percent share of the store’s first 10 billion downloads.

Google (NSDQ: GOOG) revealed the 10 billion milestone on 6 December, adding that the Market is currently generating 1 billion new downloads a month. That followed an announcement in November that more than 200m Android devices had been activated, with 550,000 more coming online every day.

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The company has now published an infographic on its Android Developers blog digging into the Android Market data, including the claim that the most popular time to download apps from the store is 9pm on Sundays.

There is also a chart for the “Top 10 Most App-crazed countries” ranked by downloads per capita. South K

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NEW YORK – Verizon Wireless plans to pay a $10 billion dividend early next year to its parents, Vodafone Group Plc and Verizon Communications .

Vodafone will receive $4.5 billion, or $1 billion less than the amount the British company’s chief financial officer, Andy Halford, had said he expected as recently as June 30.

Verizon Wireless, the largest U.S. wireless service, said it would make the payout based on the stake held by each parent company.

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