Sentences with phrase «social gaming company»

Kushner is the founder of Thrive Capital, and co-founder of social gaming company Vostu, which he created with Schlosser in 2007.

It has also received funding from Japan's largest social gaming company DeNA through its Incubate Fund, which launched in 2010 and is reported to have invested in other bitcoin companies.

Social gaming company DeNA have released a new TCG onto Android for their Mobage gaming platform called Deity Wars which apparently comes with Raid Bosses.

Shares in social gaming company Zynga continue to sink Thursday after the company announced late Wednesday that cofounder Mark Pincus is rejoining the company as CEO.

Similar to social gaming companies Rovio, Zynga and King Digital, the vast majority of Mojang's revenue comes from a single title.

Zynga cofounder Mark Pincus has rejoined the struggling online social gaming company as CEO less than two years after stepping down from that very position and nearly one year after withdrawing from the company's day - to - day operations.

In the past year or so, Zynga's estimated market capitalization has risen to over $ 5 billion and we've seen traditional media companies like EA and Disney snap up social gaming companies like Playfish and Playdom for...

EA now owns mobile publisher Chillingo, social gaming company PlayFish and PopCap.

James A. Pitaro, vice president of Yahoo Media, and John Pleasants, chief executive of Playdom, a booming social gaming company that Disney bought in July, were named co-presidents of the Disney Interactive Media Group.

In March 2010 I took a job at ngmoco:), a mobile social gaming company.

Software licensing has hurt innovation in the video game industry — with social game maker Zynga being the exception to that rule — thanks to large game companies like Nintendo, said Electronic Arts founder and social gaming company Digital Chocolate founder Trip Hawkins.

We asked a number of analysts to comment on the reasoning behind Nintendo's latest move, with Adam Taylor, in - house analyst at social gaming company Adotomi, telling TechRadar:

The rise of independent development has taken place almost completely outside its halls, as has the ascent of giant social gaming companies.»

With revenue in the $ 38.5 billion casino industry climbing only modestly in the U.S., many operators are looking beyond gambling to spur growth, building sports and entertainment venues, buying social gaming companies and sprucing up their hotel offerings.

But when Vostu, a social gaming company that he started in college, became highly successful in Latin America, his eyes lit up.

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.

In late July, I met up with Chris DeWolfe, co-founder of MySpace and the current CEO of SGN, a social gaming company.

So it comes as no surprise that soon after graduating from Dartmouth, Benartzi, 35, co-founded a social gaming company for smartphones, called Mytopia.

In an unusual move for a Silicon Valley company, Zynga chairman Mark Pincus has given up voting control of the social gaming company he founded more than a decade ago.

The issue is impacting some social gaming companies more than others, including Zynga, which until recently has been a media darling.

It's in the eye of the hurricane, but then it's the biggest (and most aggressive) social gaming company.

The Internet is encouraging a different sort of debt — with Facebook, Social Gaming companies, etc. that track user behavior and run targeted advertising, customers are basically saying they'd rather pay some unknown price down the line than pay upfront.

Earlier this year Playdom, a social gaming company that's owned by Disney, launched Marvel: Avengers Alliance on Facebook.

Zynga hasn't had much to celebrate lately — the social gaming company suffered a huge drop in users last year and it hasn't had a hit title in some time.

Bitcoin originally surfaced on my radar in 2011 when one of my portfolio companies, a social gaming company in Singapore, looked into Bitcoin as a potential payment source.