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Virtual goods an active volcano: $2.1B market
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Social gaming ad spending soaring to $220M
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Funding roundup – week ending 07/30/10
The biggest funding news of the week, perhaps ironically, is over a month old. Zynga, still one of 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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Engagement in social games
On Friday, I moderated a panel at the social gaming summit featuring speakers from Zynga, Playdom, Playfish and 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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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