Zynga announced Thursday morning that it has acquired Newtoy, creator of the wildly popular iPhone app “Words With Read More
Newtoy: Zynga’s seventh buy in seven months
Houzz raised $2 million in its Series A round of funding from Oren Zeev, Donald Katz,Gary Ginsberg, Jeff Read More
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What you need to know – Wednesday 11/3/10
The VC firm Andreessen Horowitz has raised $650 million for a fund. The fund will focus solely on Read More
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EA enters five-year deal with Facebook
Electronic Arts (EA) said Tuesday that it has entered a five-year partnership with Facebook that secures the exclusive Read More
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What you need to know – Thursday 9/30/10
Retail Solutions raised $15.2 million, in its C series of funding. The round was led by Investor Growth Capital. Read More
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Virtual goods an active volcano: $2.1B market
Sales of virtual goods, a relatively new and wildly successful business model for mobile and social applications, are Read More
Its Wednesday morning. The middle of the work week, a perfect time to get better informed and make Read More
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Live Gamer to power EA microtransactions
EA on Monday announced that it has agreed to a partnership with Live Gamer, a monetization platform for Read More
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Report: Zynga valuation at $5 billion
If Facebook is the king of social networking, then Zynga is the king of social gaming and, according Read More
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Classic brands vs a new breed of iPhone games
iPhone games have come a ways. Over the past year or so, we’ve seen the rise of Read More
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Virtual goods starting to catch on
You know all those little bits of money you’re spending on games like FarmVille, or maybe those virtual Read More
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6 Waves scores $17.5 million
6 Waves, a social gaming company which builds apps for Facebook, has raised $17.5 million from Insight Venture Read More
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Top 10 biggest social media stories of 2009
Since Friendster’s founding in 2002, social networking sites have changed quite a bit. Through the rise and development Read More
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Social gaming, post-Playfish acquisition
After the tech world nearly imploded Monday morning with news that EA had acquired social gaming startup Playfish Read More
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EA acquires Playfish for at least $275M
Electronic Arts, one of the world’s largest third-party game publishers, announced today the acquisition of social gaming startup Read More