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0	Offerpal hits more than 160 million consumers with special offers Offerpal has quietly built a special offer empire. On its two-year anniversary, the company is announcing that it has issued more than 730 billion... Source: venturebeat.com Date: Oct 29, 2009 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Apple to allow purchase of virtual goods from within free iPhone apps Apple told its developers today that it will allow the purchase of virtual goods in its free apps on the iPhone and iPod Touch. That’s a big deal that... Source: venturebeat.com Date: Oct 15, 2009 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Latest judges for DEMO’s $1M media prize: Omar Hamoui, Mark Pincus, Larry Augustin and Anu Shukla Here’s the latest batch of judges who will be at the DEMO conference next month in San Diego. They’ll help award the $1 million media prize (see... Source: venturebeat.com Date: Aug 28, 2009 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Scoreloop scores $2.8 million for socializing iPhone games Scoreloop, which develops infrastructure to make iPhone games more social and addictive, has raised a $2.8 million second round of funding. By... Source: venturebeat.com Date: Aug 18, 2009 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Social game companies light the way for old-guard casual game makers [This is part two of a two-part story on how new platforms and social game companies are changing the casual gaming market. See the first part here.]... Source: venturebeat.com Date: Jul 29, 2009 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Party crashers! iPhone/social games make old-guard casual game companies envious [This is part one of a two-part story on how the casual game market is evolving. See the second part here.] A year ago, the iPhone and social games... Source: venturebeat.com Date: Jul 29, 2009 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Thanks for coming to MobileBeat2009! Thanks to all of you who made it to MobileBeat2009 yesterday! We had a wide-ranging discussion of the biggest trends of the day. One conclusion from... Source: venturebeat.com Date: Jul 17, 2009 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	MobileBeat2009 on marketing: Velti CEO Alex Moukas, former iPhone marketer Bob Borchers, and more Our MobileBeat2009 conference next Thursday in San Francisco will feature speakers from the entire ecosystem: The top carriers, device-makers, mobile... Source: venturebeat.com Date: Jul 9, 2009 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Doom Resurrection brings hardcore gaming to the iPhone For hardcore gamers, the iPhone hasn’t had much to offer. The games are mostly light-hearted, casual games that you play when you need a short... Source: venturebeat.com Date: Jul 3, 2009 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	F.A.S.T. brings cool 3-D aerial dogfights to the iPhone The 3-D air combat game F.A.S.T. debuted a couple of weeks ago on the iPhone and iPod Touch. It’s a very difficult game to play, but it’s been growing... Source: venturebeat.com Date: Jun 30, 2009 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	In recession, social gaming comes of age Like a new mafia clan in the formative Facebook game Mob Wars, the social gaming industry has carved out its territory, flexed its muscles, earned... Source: venturebeat.com Date: Jun 24, 2009 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Electronic Arts says it chose to replace No. 2 executive The game industry took notice yesterday when John Pleasants left the No. 2 job at Electronic Arts to join a small social gaming startup, Playdom. It... Source: venturebeat.com Date: Jun 19, 2009 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	SGN’s CEO Talks About F.A.S.T. Going Free And The Realities Of A Changing App Store Last week Apple surprised the iPhone's developer community with the annoucement that it was finally allowing free apps to offer in-app purchases. The... Source: techcrunch.com Date: Oct 23, 2009 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Inside the Nerd Mansions of San Francisco San Francisco's renaissance men are supposed to be clever enough to make millions on internet startups and cultured enough to make home design... Source: gawker.com Date: Oct 7, 2009 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	SGN Snags Former EA And LucasArts Exec To Join Gaming Company Social Gaming Network (SGN), the startup that creates popular games for iPhones and social platforms like Facebook, has been seeing significant... Source: techcrunch.com Date: Sep 23, 2009 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Is ToyBots Dreaming Big Enough? One of my favorite startups at TechCrunch50 earlier this week was ToyBots, a spinoff of the popular Facebook/iPhone game developer Social Gaming... Source: techcrunch.com Date: Sep 17, 2009 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Zynga Settles Mob Wars Litigation As It Settles In To Playdom Fight Social game startup Zynga sure does get into a lot of legal fights. Just as they settle down to business with the Playdom you-stole-our-playbook... Source: techcrunch.com Date: Sep 13, 2009 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Building on top of social media can be risky Several companies which leverage the social graph ponder upon risk of not truly owning their users There's a wealth of open API's on the Web now that... Source: vator.tv Date: Jul 30, 2009 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Another Killer Data Point For iPhone Apps: F.A.S.T. Pulls In $1 Million In Six Weeks Another data point that profitable businesses can be built on the back of the iPhone/iPod Touch app store: Social Gaming Network's F.A.S.T. dogfight... Source: techcrunch.com Date: Jul 24, 2009 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	SuperFan Combines Social Gaming With Fan Worship There has never been a better time to be a "fan" online. Whether it be via Facebook, MySpace, or even through fan-based social networks like TopFans,... Source: techcrunch.com Date: Jul 9, 2009 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0