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0 Sulake CEO discusses Niko, Habbo Hotel and the drive to move audiences across platforms

With over 10 million unique visitors a month, Habbo Hotel is the world’s largest game and online community for teenagers, with users in over 150...

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0 Mopay: Mobile payment interest doubled in North America last year

Mobile payment system Mopay announced today that people charging online merchandise directly to their cell phones or landlines has nearly doubled over...

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0 Virtual world Habbo hits more than 200M registered users

If you’re a teen, chances are you’ve checked into the Habbo Hotel. Sulake, the parent company of the cartoon-style virtual world, said today that more...

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0 Applifier’s “rebel alliance” raises money to cross-promote social games

In Facebook games, a small pack of companies has most of the users. Applifier wants to change that, creating a new marketing vehicle so that...

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0 Sulake’s Habbo virtual world for kids keeps growing at fast clip

Virtual worlds aren’t fashionable in the age of social networks. But Finnish virtual world operator Sulake reported strong growth in the first quarter...

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0 Vacancies at the Habbo hotel? Sulake laying off 20 percent

The company that created the popular Habbo virtual world plans to lay off 20 percent of its employees, according to published reports.

Sulake is...

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0 Sulake names Disney exec CEO in social gaming push

HELSINKI (Reuters) - Finnish Internet company Sulake said it was naming Paul LaFontaine as its new chief executive in a move aimed at shifting the...

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0 Finnish Gaming Startup Supercell Bags $12M from Accel, Others

(Reuters) - Finnish online startup Supercell, which merges social games with elements from traditional console titles, has raised $12 million from...

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0 Habbo Hotel Turns 10

Habbo Hotel, one of the world's largest virtual communities, turned 10 today. Starting as "Mobile Disco," an interactive chat for a friend's band, it...

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0 Never Mind the Valley: Here's Finland

Finland is quite a paradox. One would not think that a country with only 5 million people, plunged into darkness for a greater part of the year, would...

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1 NEW STAFF!

welcome, we have a new staff on the block, Skillcape He has the correct ability to help others and shown us he can take on new things!

GoodLuck,...

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0 Spring full of Nouvelle Star in Habbo FR

While we’ve lately been
blogging
about the American Idol currently ongoing in the US, we’re pleased to say that we recently also
entered into an...

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  • Date: Apr 29, 2009
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0 Sulake Named AlwaysOn OnHollywood 100 Winner

Again some good news on
the competition front: Sulake was just recently selected to the
2009 OnHollywood 100
List. The OnHollywood 100 Award is given...

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  • Date: Apr 21, 2009
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0 Sulake Opens Mobile Virtual World Bobba

Sulake, the Finnish company behind the successful Habbo Hotel, has opened up Bobba to public beta. Bobba is a mobile only virtual world and is in very...

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0 American Idol stirring up Habbo

During the
past couple of weeks we at
habbo.com have had the pleasure of welcoming
several
American Idol 8th season contestants for
a visit in...

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  • Date: Apr 7, 2009
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0 Habbo Pulled In $74 Million In Real Revenues Last Year From Virtual Goods And Advertising

Convincing people to pay for nothing, or rather for things with zero marginal cost to produce, is a great business model—in theory. In practice,...

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0 HPV’s Habbo campaign wins at MEGA awards

We are extremely proud to tell you that the advertising campaign “
HPV Vaccine – Virtual Surgery in Habbo
Hotel” has won the most Innovative Launch...

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  • Date: Mar 27, 2009
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0 Romance isn’t dead; it’s online say teens

To celebrate Valentine’s Day last week we did an extensive global poll in Habbo already a few
weeks back. The subject was very popular among our...

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  • Date: Feb 18, 2009
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0 Habbo fansite wins award in The Netherlands

As we always say, it is the users who make Habbo what it is. One excellent example of this
user-generatedness is the amount and quality of fan pages...

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  • Date: Feb 16, 2009
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0 Talking about some serious *bobba* in Habbo

For us in Habbo, user safety has always been a top priority and our teams work hard every day
to keep the virtual world as safe and fun as possible....

  • Source: sulake.com (Company Blog)
  • Date: Jan 15, 2009
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