Sentences with phrase «own social game company»

Earlier today, Zynga, a San Francisco - based social games company, raised a whopping $ 180 million in fresh funding from Digital Sky Technologies (DST), a Russian investment firm that first made a splash with a $ 200 million investment in Facebook this summer.

NEW YORK (Reuters)- Zynga, the social games company, has poached the chief operating officer of Electronic Arts Inc, sources familiar with the matter said on Tuesday.

The San Francisco social games company has not disclosed its earnings, but has confirmed it has been profitable.

Teatime Games, the Icelandic social games company, has announced a $ 7.5 million Series A funding round and a prior $ 1.6 million Seed round, both led by Index Ventures, a venture capital firm that has backed some of the world's most successful games companies including King, Roblox and Supercell.

He later was Director of Engineering and CTO at mobile / social game companies and shipped projects including CastleVille and Dungeon Boss.

Since 2008, Adrian Crook & Associates has worked with over 100 clients, including many of the leading mobile and social game companies.

Austin - based Portalarium, a mobile and social game company co-founded by renowned game designer Richard Garriott de Cayeux, announced today that it closed a $ 7 million round of series A financing.

Kōtarō Hayashida is now president and CEO of his own social game company, Liber Entertainment Inc. (founded in 2006), he still has SEGA as a client and other companies such as Gumi, Cygames, and Bandai Namco on the mobile front.

London - headquartered Playfish is one of the world's largest and fastest growing social games companies, with hit microtransaction - powered titles such as Who Has The Biggest Brain?

Mattrick joined social games company Zynga in a surprise defection yesterday that has commentators scrambling to figure out what it means for the companies.

It got so bad that Facebook almost entirely shut off these viral channels to avoid ruining the feed for everyone, and social game companies were hit hard by their diminished ability to recruit new users.

Not exact matches

For game developers, Facebook and Zynga's breakup last week was much - welcomed news: Now that the two company's official relationship has been severed (and Zynga will be free to develop its own gaming platform on Zynga.com), the social network will also no longer play favorites — giving other independent game developers a fair shake at the exposure and growth the Facebook platform can offer.

Gaming companies, in particular, have discovered that they can use Kickstarter, in conjunction with their other social media tools, to generate sales of a game before they even develop it.

With the possible exception of social media company Snap, these companies — a carmaker, a phone maker and a music streaming app — have little to do with WeChat and video games, all part of Tencent's core businesses.

The games are mostly on Wednesday afternoons but stand as another foray into live sports for the social media company.»

Some viewers had reacted on social media ahead of the game by lashing out at the car company and criticizing it for allegedly not practicing what was being advocated in the ad.

Although Facebook (fb) doesn't operate a web browser like other tech companies, many developers and companies have built video games for the social network that use Flash.

Those games will be available in China to stream for free on Tencent's variety of platforms, including Tencent Sports and the company's flagship social network WeChat, which touts roughly 960 monthly active users and accounts for almost 30 % of China's mobile apps usage.

They run the gamut, from a company that makes customizable condoms, to another that sells moonshine - based liqueurs, to yet another that bills itself as a social network for gamers.

The problems facing each company are unique — Groupon is suffering from high marketing costs, while the popularity of Zynga's games is waning — but it became painfully apparent this year that social - media hype isn't selling like it once did.

Microsoft's head of interactive entertainment, Don Mattrick, has left the software company to take the top job at social games maker Zynga, leaving his former division potentially vulnerable in the months before a major new product launch.

Zynga was initially successful thanks to a lucrative strategy of making social games for Facebook's desktop platform, going public in a 2011 IPO that raised $ 1 billion for the company.

Twitter said on Wednesday it would carry instant - replay footage from National Football League games as part of a new advertising partnership that could boost the social media company's revenue before its highly anticipated initial public offering.

The social gaming company based in San Francisco, known for its popular games like FarmVille and Mafia Wars, will file for its IPO with the SEC as early as this week, or next week at the latest.

Twitter plans to carry instant - replay footage from National Football League games as part of a new advertising partnership that could boost the social media company's revenue.

Later this year, the company will launch a third commercial and a print campaign, while its social media game plan will see continued collaborations with the buzziest influencers in home decor and lifestyle blogging.

#OptOutside is the name of the sticky social game and it's catching fire fast on Twitter and Facebook, keeping pace with a steady gush of media coverage surrounding the company's «shocking» jab at over-the-top Black Friday consumerism.

Pincus helped create Zynga in 2007 and the company soon gained millions of monthly active users through popular social games played on mobile devices and networks such as Facebook (FB), including FarmVille and Zynga Poker.

Before Lemon, he co-founded Bling Nation, a social rewards company, Lemon Bank, a Brazilian retail bank for the poor, Wanako Games, a video game company, and an online brokerage, Patagon, which was sold to Spanish bank Santander for $ 750 million.

Almost immediately, Zynga, the creator of social games like Farmville, as well as other companies with offices outside the special tax zone, tried to broaden the terms of the tax break so that it would include them.

Twitter (TWTR) has for years struggled to grow its user base, but the social media company's push into live video could turn into a game - changing move.

Developers, in turn, created apps that became emblematic of the Facebook experience — apps such as Farmville, a farming simulation game played with friends on the social network, which was made by the gaming company Zynga.

They drastically changed the games of music distribution, social interaction and communications... but their companies didn't thrive in the long run.

What started as a self - proclaimed «part friend - finder, part social city - guide, part social - game» has become a $ 600 million company.

Brent Dusing is a Christian, but Hexify is not a Christian company, and this is not its first foray into the lucrative sea of Facebook - style social adventure games.

Mayborn Group was named «Business Game Changer» in the Global Angels Awards 2013 in recognition of the company's outstanding work to embed Social Responsibility and Sustainability across its Global business.

Dr Jonathan Delafield - Butt, of Strathclyde's Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, and colleagues at start - up company Harimata, used fun iPad games to track players» hand movements — gathering information that can help identify autism.

The company is getting traction in places such as dating sites, casual games and social networks, where virtual goods are used as gifts, incentives and add - ons to user profiles.

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She's just another person who works for a video game company and has publicly supported feminism and social justice.

Yesterday it was announced that Don Mattrick, president of Microsoft's Interactive Entertainment Business division, would be leaving the company to pursue a career as CEO of social games giant... Read More

A sports game's social component, however, is just one piece of a larger, entertaining puzzle, and companies continue to serve challenging single player modes to keep gamers hooked while living out their fantasies as an athlete, manager, or athlete - turned - manager.

Greg McLean's The Belko Experiment, written by Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn (also writer of Dawn of the Dead and director of SLiTHER), is clearly inspired by the 2000 Japanese adaptation; it takes place during a twisted social experiment in which a group of 80 Americans are locked in their high - rise corporate office in Bogata, Colombia and ordered by an unknown voice coming from the company's intercom system to participate in a deadly game of kill or be killed.

French companies» favorite tools are customized courses, online surveys, virtual courses, serious games, social networks for work, and mobile learning.

Poker might not be what you think of when you think about Zynga, a company that is best known for family friendly titles like FarmVille and online social games.

The company provides its online social games under the Zynga Poker, Words With Friends, Scramble With Friends, Gems with Friends, Draw Something, FarmVille, FarmVille2, ChefVille, CityVille, Bubble Safari and Ruby Blast.

«For retailers, social media can be a game changing tool,» says Frank Hon, director of operations at Canidae Natural Pet Food Company.

That has proved to be a bad bet for the company, as social internet networks have given way to a whole new genre of causal games.

«There's been a social political trend that we're seeing in the games,» says Stephanie Barish, the chief executive of Indiecade, the a company that promotes independent developers, much like a film festival.

Raphael van Lierop, an industry veteran behind the launch of such games as Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War and Company of Heroes has teamed with other professional game designers, artists, and technicians to create Hinterland Studios, a new game company focused on creating «story - driven gameplay experiences that feature mature themes and... social awareness.Company of Heroes has teamed with other professional game designers, artists, and technicians to create Hinterland Studios, a new game company focused on creating «story - driven gameplay experiences that feature mature themes and... social awareness.company focused on creating «story - driven gameplay experiences that feature mature themes and... social awareness.»