Tencent’s golden child is undoubtedly Weixin (known to users outside of China as WeChat), but as CEO Tony Ma explained during his keynote at the Global Mobile Internet Conference (GMIC) in Beijing today, he believes that the mobile messaging app will determine the fate of Tencent’s long-term strategy. WeChat has introduced social networking features – a…
Around four years ago, Riccardo Zacconi said he was close to selling King, the arcade gaming company that he had co-founded and bootstrapped six years earlier. The company, which has a destination site at King.com, had lost about 45 percent of its traffic as one of its biggest partners Yahoo! Games cut back. Facebook, the…
One of the sleeper hits on the charts over the last year has been a tiny game out of Denmark called Subway Surfers. It’s a runner game like Imangi’s Temple Run that has a character named Jake riding train tracks and dodging trains. That single title has helped Kiloo and Sybo, the studio it co-produced…
A look at Nasdaq 10 most-active stocks at 1 p.m.:Cisco Systems Inc. rose 1.5 percent to $21.54 with 23,498,000 shares traded.Dell Inc. fell .2 percent to $14.05 with 13,802,600 shares traded.Facebook Inc.
Despite the popularity of the Pictionary-style smartphone application Draw Something, Samsung has taken its time to demonstrate to consumers the capabilities of its Galaxy Note and its S-Pen stylus — until today. The Galaxy Note’s S-Pen allows users to annotate documents, mark and share directions on Google Maps and many other useful little features. However,…
Digital Garage, Inc, the company that creates portals for many western sites in Japan has acquired the Photozou [jp] photo sharing service from Zynga Japan. Photozou, was founded in 2005 and is one of Japan’s largest photo sharing services. It has around 2.4 million members and a cumulative upload of about 130 million photos as of March…
Spammers have been capitalizing on Draw Something’s popularity, targeting unsuspecting users on Twitter, Sophos reports. Prior to its multi-million acquisition by Zynga, Draw Something had netted over 30 million downloads. The app held the top spot for both free and paid apps in the iTunes app store, that is until Angry Birds Space came along,…
53% of Facebook users play social games. Since Facebook’s IPO filing earlier this year, we know that game-maker Zynga accounts for a full 12% of the social network’s revenue. The top five casino games on Facebook – Texas HoldEm Poker, Slotomania, DoubleDown Casino, Bingo Blitz and Best Casino – together draw a whopping 11,240,000 daily…
Blasting out of stealth with a fat wallet, Plumbee is looking to shake up the world of social gaming. Given that some mega-transactions have been occurring at the top of the industry, to see well-funded upstarts launch into the space is hardly surprising. The company, while previously under the radar, has a team of twenty. The company…
In a case of persistence paying off, casual gaming giant Zynga has reportedly snapped up OMGPOP, the six-year-old gaming studio that created the recent smash hit Draw Something, reports All Things D. Zynga has reportedly finalized a deal of $200M to own the number one selling app on Android and iOS. The company was founded…
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