social gaming
RockYou Cofounder Lance Tokuda Keeps It Old School With New Classmates Competitor SchoolFeed
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Lance Tokuda was one of the masterminds behind viral apps on Facebook back at the end of last decade. He cofounded and led RockYou as its chief executive through the evolution of the Facebook platform, all the while inundating users with hugs, horoscopes, birthday cards and other lightweight social app...
Marketo Buys Social Marketing App Developer Crowd Factory
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Marketo, a company that provides an on-demand marketing software that allows businesses to optimize their sales and marketing efforts has acquired Crowd Factory, a startup that creates white-label social marketing applications. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Crowd Factory’s social marketing applications allows marketers to amplify and optimize...
Freemium Game Dev Addmired Rebrands As Machine Zone, Lands $8M From Menlo Ventures
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Oh, how times have changed for Addmired team. The Y Combinator startup first debuted in 2008 with an Hot or Not-esque social network plugin, but eventually found their footing after pivoting to become a developer of freemium multiplayer mobile games like iMob and its recently released sequel. Now they’re looking...
Tencent’s mobile gaming platform hits 200 million registered users
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Tencent this week revealed some impressive statistics around the success of its mobile gaming platform, Mobile QQ Game Hall, which has surpassed 200 million registered users. According to a report from Marbridge Consulting which cites a Chinese news report, Tencent is seeing 13 million users on the platform every day, with...
Social Gaming Goes Offline: Zynga Signs Deal With Hasbro For Real-World Toys and Games
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Rovio has famously turned its Angry Birds games into a giant toy franchise, but most other new gaming companies haven’t spent much energy going this route. But now Zynga is, per a big licensing deal with long-time toy and board game maker Hasbro. Per the deal, Hasbro is paying Zynga...
What ever happened to the American arcade?
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In North America, gamers are now generally divided into two distinct generations: those that grew up in the midst of the vibrant video arcade culture of the '70s and '80s; and those born since. The latter group's experience with arcades is primarily through redemption-machine-filled restaurants like Dave & Busters...
Dear game developers: Zynga’s got $1.8 billion in cash and is aggressively looking for the next OMGPOP
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Good news for all you mobile game developers out there. Zynga, now a public company, has a big chunk of available cash on hand, and says its aggressively looking for the next big thing to spend part of its $1.8 billion on. Zynga CEO Mark Pincus, along with M&A chief...
Dear game developers: Zynga’s got $1.8 billion in cash and is aggressively looking for the next OMGPOP
Ziften secures $5.5 million Series B funding, launches BLISS to make enterprise PCs super efficient
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Austin-based enterprise efficiency specialist Ziften announced today it has has closed $5.5 million in Series B round of funding, led by Apple-investor Fayez Sarofim & Co. Founded in 2010, Ziften’s Behavioural Lightweight Intelligence for Stressed Systems (BLISS) solution helps companies run their PCs faster and with greater efficiency, by closing down...
HMTL5 Mobile Gaming Site Cellufun Is Now Tylted, Eyes Up “Substantial” Facebook Play, Virtual Goods, Ads
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Facebook is banking a lot on the future of HTML5 and the idea of people going web-first instead of native-apps for their mobile content fixes, and today mobile gaming company Cellufun taking one step in its strategy to position itself as a key player in that space, too: it’s announcing...
HMTL5 Mobile Gaming Site Cellufun Is Now Tylted, Eyes Up “Substantial” Facebook Play, Virtual Goods, Ads
Another Crowdfunding Player Enters The Fray: Apps Genius Launches GetFunded.com
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This may not have been the U.S. government’s exact intention when when it passed the crowdfunding-friendly JOBS Act, but you have to wonder if it has also jumpstarted the number of crowdfunding sites out there competing for entrepreneurs’ and consumers’ attention. The latest comes from the social and mobile games...
Zynga unleashes new social network, partner programme and Farmville 2
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Social games giant reveals Zynga With Friends network, The Ville simulation and a Farmville sequel for its 300m usersThis is it – Zynga, the next generation. At its second annual Zynga Unleashed event, held on Tuesday at its ultra-hip San Francisco office, the company unveiled Zynga With Friends, a social...
SchoolFeed Turns High School Reunions into a Facebook Social Game
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SchoolFeed, which is building a sort of Facebook social gaming version of Classmates.com, already has six million monthly users. Now, it has raised $1.75 million in funding. SchoolFeed helps users find out whatever happened to their freshman crush, of course — as well as plan reunions, scan their yearbooks and...
Social Gaming Startup Mob Science Raises $1M To Make A Bet On Zynga’s New Platform
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While Zynga may have won the early social gaming wars, investments in Facebook gaming haven’t totally dried up. In fact, some startups are hoping that Zynga will end up being more of a friend than foe. That’s exactly what Mob Science is doing in taking $1 million in seed funding...
The Hong Kong Firm Behind Those Quirky Animated News Shorts Bets $5M On Red Robot Labs
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The Yakuza, Chinese Triads and more. There’s just so many more mafias for Benchmark-backed mobile gaming studio Red Robot Labs to infiltrate. So the gaming company, which has made a huge bet on location, said it’s partnering with Next Media to enter Asian markets. (Yes, Next Media is the owner of...
Desperate For Revenue, Facebook Turns To The Gambling Business... (FB)
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Facebook is going into the gambling business. Starting today, report Christopher Thompson and April Dembosky of the FT, Facebook will allow users in the UK to play bingo for real money. Real-money slot machines will soon follow. Gambling is much more socially and legally acceptable in the UK than in...
Droidsclusive: Japanese mobile gaming firm GREE releases its first Android-only title
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Japanese mobile social gaming firm GREE has released its first Android-only title with the launch of free-to-play Dino Life, which was developed in its newly opened San Francisco-based games studio. The title is exclusive to GREE and sees the firm broaden its appeal to Android owners, having solely catered for...
Mobile Social Gaming Company Dragonplay Raises $14M From Accel To Expand To iOS
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Dragonplay, a free-to-play social games developer for Android and Facebook, has raised $14 million Series A funding from Accel Partners, Founder Collective and Entrée Capital. The Israeli company was founded in 2010 by Sharon Tal. Dragonplay specializes in multi-platform social game experiences in the cards, casino and board game category...
Facebook’s Mobile Viral Channels Are Working For Wooga, Europe’s Biggest Social Gaming Company
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Viral channels are slowly and inevitably starting to matter for mobile game developers. For ages, many top developers would try and climb up the charts through a combination of mobile advertising, offer walls, free app promotions or more nefariously, download bots. But as the charts have been become crowded with...
Japan’s GREE acquires Korean social gaming company Paprika Lab
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Japanese mobile gaming company GREE has extended its recent run of acquisitions, today announcing that it has bought Korean social game developer Paprika Lab, acquiring all of the company’s shares for an undisclosed amount. Having worked with the company in the past, GREE has said it will incorporate Paprika Lab’s social...
Berlin startup Crowdpark bets on Euro 2012 with the launch of 90Live game
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Germany to win? Torres to be top scorer? Greece to repeat their 2004 heroics? With less than two days to go to the big Euro 2012 kickoff, football fans across Europe are arguing over how the next three weeks of drama will unfold. And what better way to spice things...
Habbo exposed as paedophile haven
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Balderton Capital will return its 13 per cent stake in social gaming company Sulake at zero value after learning that one of the company's products, Habbo, is to be engulfed in a child sex scandal by Channel 4....
Led By Social, Gaming Investment, M&A More Than Doubled In 2011; Consolidation Looms
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Yesterday, we took a look at the growing comfort consumers, specifically gamers, have with purchasing virtual goods and currency on the Web and mobile devices. Virtual goods are becoming a booming market thanks to the growing maturity of gaming platforms, free-to-play models, and the profusion of mobile devices. Today, international...
Forget reward points: AmEx gives users Farmville cash
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American Express is teaming with Zynga on a reward program that will link offline spending on its Serve pre-paid cards to in-game rewards in Farmville. It’s a pretty ambitious attempt at boosting the reach of American Express’ nascent Serve product and tying real-world spending to online virtual rewards for millions of social...
Why Zynga is Shedding Users
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Social gaming company Zynga had an outstanding 2011, leading to a well-hyped IPO in December. But Zynga's biggest risk was always an over-reliance on Facebook, with most of its revenue and users coming from the social network. It's now six months after Zynga's IPO and its stock price has halved,...
Can Tech Companies Continue To Innovate With No Women At The Table?
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Women dominate social networks, according to the latest Nielsen report. This is not news. Women have been ruling social networks like Facebook, Twitter, and social gaming platforms for the past few years. Women also bring in half or more of the income in 55% of U.S. households. And women ages...
Developers say Facebook Credits converts fewer paying users than hoped
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Facebook’s top developers say the company’s payments infrastructure and virtual currency Credits is converting fewer paying users than they had hoped a year ago. Facebook made it mandatory for developers to use its payments platform in canvas games in July. That meant developers on the platform had to start handing...
The Inside Story of The OMGPOP-Zynga Deal From The CEO, Investors & More!
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We caught up with OMGPOP chief executive Dan Porter, Zynga’s chief mobile officer David Ko and board member and Spark Capital partner Bijan Sabet to get the inside story of how OMGPOP’s sale went down. It’s been a whirlwind six weeks for OMGPOP, which transformed from an also-ran social gaming...
After Zynga Settlement, Layoffs Hit Brazilian Social Gaming Company Vostu
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Brazilian social gaming giant Vostu is laying off an undisclosed number of employees, we’ve learned. Vostu, which has raised $46 million from Intel Capital, Accel Partners, General Catalyst, and Tiger Technology Global Management; is one largest social gaming companies in Latin America. The gaming company was founded in 2007 by...
GREE May Have Missed OMGPOP, But It Has Another Way To Expand: A Deal With Ad Giant Dentsu
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When Kim first broke the news that Zynga was in talks to buy Draw Something developer OMGPOP, she noted that one other suitor was the Japanese social gaming giant GREE, which had already made a name for itself in buying U.S. gaming companies, picking up OpenFeint in April 2011 for...
OMG Stop! Why Zynga is considering $200M purchase of DrawSomething creator OMGPOP
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Welcome to the wild world of mobile gaming, where a new king can be crowned in the span of three weeks, and a struggling company can become the most sought after acquisition on the market. OMGPOP knew it had to try something drastic with DrawSomething, as it was getting beaten...
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