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Announcing DiscoveryBeat: an event on how to get your apps noticed in an age of noise
VentureBeat is throwing a new mini-conference and networking event, DiscoveryBeat.
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FishVille Launches on Facebook; It’s Like Underwater FarmVille
We were sort of surprised to discover how many of you proclaim your love for FarmVille, the social farming sim game from Zynga. We reported that the...
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Spore Islands launches on Facebook as EA tries social games expansion
Rumors persist that Electronic Arts plans to buy social gaming startup PlayFish to break into the fast-growing market of Facebook games.
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Offers controversy stirs reactions across social networking industry
A relatively obscure part of the social networking business has come into the limelight. It’s about special ads known as “offers” that are used to...
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Scamville: The Social Gaming Ecosystem Of Hell
Last weekend I wrote about how the big social gaming companies are making hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue on Facebook and MySpace through...
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China’s I Got Game to launch first of many Facebook games
Chinese game company I Got Game has built an audience of 15 million users with 14 massively multiplayer games launched since 2005. Now it is trying...
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For Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, failure is an option
Silicon Valley is known the world over for its acceptance of failure as a rite of passage. Technology legends from Netscape founder Marc Andreessen to...
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Facebook tinkering with changes that may weaken app virality
Facebook is having one-on-one meetings with some of its larger developers detailing a series of changes that could significantly affect the way...
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Norwest’s Tim Chang explains why virtual goods are so hot in social games
Tim Chang, principal at Norwest Venture Partners, has immersed himself in the online games sector for some time and he says that the hottest business...
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Social Games: How The Big Three Make Millions
So much for the first generation of big Facebook/MySpace social application startups. Slide and RockYou both got huge valuations in venture rounds....
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Watercooler raises $5.5M to expand social fantasy sports game business
Drawing attention to a relatively unnoticed segment of social games, Watercooler has raised $5.5 million to expand its business of making...
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Top 10 Games You Can Play on Facebook
Without a doubt, social gaming is on the rise — and big business for some. With the Facebook application platform, game developers have an...
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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...
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The making of Zynga’s Cafe World, the fastest growing social game in history
When Cafe World debuted on Facebook on Sept. 30, it lit up the social network immediately. The title, a simple simulation where you make food and run...
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Electronic Arts exec says social gaming bubble resembles mobile games hype
The social gaming bubble is getting bigger and it resembles all of the hype that used to envelop the mobile phone games and virtual world markets a...
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RUMOR: EA Acquires Facebook Game Maker Playfish for $250 Million
This is in the rumor stages right now: video game mega-corporation Electronic Arts may have already bought social gaming company Playfish a few weeks...
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Virtual goods sales to hit $1 billion in 2009 as social games pay off big
Thanks to the astonishing growth of games on social networks such as Facebook and MySpace, the U.S. virtual goods market is poised to clear $1 billion...
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peHUB First Read
* Does private equity need a new name?
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3rd annual Virtual Goods Summit brings together global leaders in the virtual goods ecosystem
Editor’s note: This post is sponsored by Virtual Goods Summit.
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Zynga’s Cafe World game hits 10 million users in just a week
Zynga is starting to accelerate its momentum in social games on Facebook. The latest proof is Cafe World, a Facebook game that has grown to 10 million...
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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...
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PopCap Games raises $22.5 million to fund expansion into social games
For almost 10 years, PopCap Games has shown it can come up with one hit after another in the casual downloadable games business. One of its titles,...
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Playdom raising a significant round of capital
Playdom, the hot social gaming company that dominates games on MySpace and is moving into Facebook and iPhone games, is raising a significant round of...
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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...
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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...
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Jambool Raises $5 Million For Its Social Gold Micropayments Platform
Jambool, the startup behind the Social Gold micropayments platform, has closed a $5 million funding round led by Madrona Venture Group, with Bay...
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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.]...
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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.]
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Why Zynga Is Worried about Playfish
When I wrote my BusinessWeek column on Zygna a while back, every venture capitalist in the Valley told me that Playdom was the company’s biggest...
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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...
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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...
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How Apple can improve the iPhone as a game platform
Apple has come a long way with games on the iPhone. There are 12,403 games among the 59,073 apps, according to Mobclix. The iPhone 3.0 software and...
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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.
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Playdom nabs EA executive, social gaming growing up fast
Playdom is one of the larger game developers on social networks, and it’s making lots of money from virtual goods. Unlike older, more established...
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XPOGames: A Portal and Social Network for Gamers and Developers [Invites]
As we highlighted last week, social gaming is on the rise. A big reason for this is because playing video games is often a social activity that...
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Disciple Is A Real-Time Player-To-Player Fantasy Battlefield For Adults
Casual head to head games, also known as synchronous or real-time games, are becoming increasingly popular on the web. Geewa, Zynga, and Playfish all...
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Watch Out Nintendo! Social Gaming is Rapidly on the Rise
Ever since the launch of social networking application platforms on Facebook, MySpace, and others, gaming has taken a sharp turn towards social media....
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Ex-Employee Sues Zynga For Discrimination, Wrongful Termination
Zynga's social gaming network is going gangbusters right now, reportedly pushing nine figures in revenue. But the company's legal woes continue. A...
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iPhone game developers rejoice at Apple’s latest update plans
There were a lot of happy game developers among the 200 or so people who attended Thursday’s iGames Summit in San Francisco, which was devoted to...
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Some Indie Facebook Developers Pulling In Over $700,000 A Month
The mass media may be enamored of the rags-to-riches stories of developers on Apple's App Store, but it isn't the only game in town for indie...
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This Week Inside Social Games for December 22, 2008
Check out the latest news & insights this week from Inside Social Games:
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Play Poker with Your iPhone, Turns iPhone into a Social Gaming Platform
Zynga, the largest social gaming network, launches “Live Poker,” the first truly live game on the iPhone. This mobile version of Zynga’s popular Texas...
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Zynga’s Full House Puts Its Online iPhone Poker On Top
Zynga, a social gaming network whose backers include Kleiner Perkins, has released a new multiplayer Poker game on the iPhone that will likely leave...
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Zynga Launches the Ultimate Time Waster: Live Poker for the iPhone
Luckily, I don’t play poker. It’s one in the long list of addictions I’ve been lucky not to get infected with over the years. But if I did, I’d be all...
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What’s Your Favorite Social Networking Application?
This article is part of the Open Web Awards, an open, international contest for the best websites and services.
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Top Facebook Game Developer Playfish Raises $17 Million
Top social game developer Playfish announced today that it has raised a $17 million round of financing from Accel Partners and Index Ventures. Along...
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Playfish Gets $17 Million More For Social Games
Over the past year video games have begun invading every computing platform, from social networks to mobile devices. They've also been picked up in...
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Who's shameless enough to go to The Lobby this year? [Meltdowns]
Silicon Valley venture capitalist David Hornik's invite-only dealmaking conference, The Lobby, takes place again next week at a plush resort in...
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One More Place You’ll Find Google: Games
Throughout last year, Stan and Pete both reported the acquisition by Google of an in-game ad provider called AdScape. AdScape’s assimilation was...
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RockYou diving deeper into social games [Widgets]
Slide and RockYou, the two largest developers of Facebook apps, have long had a serious rivalry over the most frivolous Web software. But the two may...
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Facebook Games and Their Blood Money
I’m like you: I get a little tired of the Facebook messages asking me to sign up for a new application. For the most part, Facebook applications are...
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Facebook virtual pet game maker ‘(fluff)Friends’ acquired by ‘Social Gaming Network’
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Social Gaming Network acquires (fluff)Friends virtual pet game
Social Gaming Network has acquired (fluff)Friends, a Facebook virtual pet game maker. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
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