August 23rd, 2012

Name That Tune: SongPop Has Now Racked Up 25M Users, 4M Of Them Daily

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Social games come and go but for now the buzz around SongPop continues. Today publisher FreshPlanet announced some landmark numbers, which point to how the music game — where users play each other in a kind of “name that tune” face-off in different categories — is still seeing significant growth. Three months after launch, it has 25 million unique players, and has 4 million daily active… → Read More

August 14th, 2012

Facebook Says It Now Has 235M Monthly Gamers, App Center Hits 150M Monthly Visitors

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Facebook’s push for more engagement on its platform, to drive advertising and other monetization efforts (and to counterbalance that drooping stock price), is showing some gains, according to updated figures on both games and app usage released by the company today. Facebook now has 235 million people playing games on Facebook.com, up from 205 million a year ago and up 8.4% since January. And the… → Read More