LinkedIn, the Microsoft-owned social platform, has made a name for itself primarily as a platform for people looking to network and pick up knowledge for professional purposes, and for recruitment 
Chad Hurley is hunting for what comes after fantasy sports. He envisions a new way for fans to play by watching live and cheering for the athletes they love. Beyond a few scraps of info the YouTube co
Some consolidation is afoot in the world of gaming. Today, Space Ape Games — a London social and mobile games studio founded by alums from Playfish, Mind Candy and EA — announced that Supe
Activision Blizzard today announced that it has closed its acquisition of King Digital for $5.9 billion, a deal that it says makes it the largest game network in the world with more than 500 million u
It's been quite a year for Viber, and now the mobile messaging company is seeing out 2014 with arguably its most significant release to date: the launch of a social games platform.
Remember social games? Remember how they supposed to be the future, how they were transforming the games industry and all that? No? Strangely not many people seem to think about social games any more,
Though they receive much less attention than other apps, social casino games are one of the top-grossing categories in mobile gaming, says a new report by Distimo. The report used data from Distimo Ap
<a target="_blank" href="http://www.king.com">King</a>, the European makers of the hit game Candy Crush Saga, today moved one step closer to an IPO in the U.S., filing an <a target="_blank" href="http
Games as a service exist, but are often still tied to the idea of one primary device. At the same time software is moving away from one device into a more pervasive experience that follows you around
A lot of recent moves in the gaming space to ban, investigate or curtail certain aspects of its output can seem egregious. However seen in the light of how shady game makers tend to behave, and the ne
<a target="_blank" href="http://king.com">King.com</a>, the casual social games maker, today is announcing a couple of milestones in its growth: the company's Candy Crush Saga is now the number-one ov
Social gaming giant <a target="_blank" href="http://www.zynga.com">Zynga</a> has now confirmed that it will be closing down its <a target="_blank" href="http://www.zynga.co.jp">Japan operation</a>, as
For retailers and publishers in video games, Christmas is the busiest time of the year. On the digital side, Christmas is often one of the slower periods but, when the dust settles and spring begins,
Mobile and social gaming have exploded in popularity over the last few years and both are quickly becoming multi-billion dollar industries. With an estimated 35 million players in the U.S., <a href="h
Over the last year, we have seen some notable advances in mobile carrier billing -- which lets people pay for services and content on their phones by charging it to their carrier bills: <a target="_bl
Social games come and go but for now the buzz around SongPop continues. Today publisher <a target="_blank" href="http://www.freshplanet.com">FreshPlanet</a> <a target="_blank" href="http://www.prnewsw
<a target="_blank" href="http://www.playdemic.com">Playdemic</a>, a UK-based developer of social games, has announced a $4 million round of funding from a group of investors, with $3 million of that f
Would you like to bet on what may be the next big thing in games? Place a wager on real-money gambling, and you could be in for some good returns. Today, when games developer <a target="_blank" href="
<a target="_blank" href="http://www.facebook.com">Facebook's</a> push for more engagement on its platform, to drive advertising and other monetization efforts (and to counterbalance that <a target="_b
For the last three quarters, Facebook has been <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2012/07/26/facebooks-payments-platform-revenues-barely-budge-for-a-third-quarter/">struggling to move the needle</a> on i
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