Categories Posted inin Development The top 25 technology books of all time Posted byby Dean Takahashi April 20, 2012 14 min Technology teaches us to forget the past. Last year’s tech news seems like it has no use whatsoever. Thankfully, historians beg to differ, and... Continue Reading 14 min
Categories Posted inin Development Bluega takes web-based HTML5 touchscreen interface across platforms Posted byby Dean Takahashi April 18, 2012 2 min Touchscreen user interfaces look pretty cool, but why does every device have to come with a different one? With Bluega’s pieOS, you can get... Continue Reading 2 min
Categories Posted inin Development The DeanBeat: How developers can avoid a bloodbath in fighting for new users Posted byby Dean Takahashi April 6, 2012 5 min In the past month, what app makers have to spend to get the attention of Apple device users has risen out of control. That’s... Continue Reading 5 min
Categories Posted inin Development Zynga confirms engineering head on Zynga.com has departed Posted byby Dean Takahashi March 31, 2012 1 min Zynga has confirmed that one of its key technologists, Neil Roseman, has resigned from the company. Roseman served most recently as vice president of engineering... Continue Reading 1 min
Categories Posted inin Development Seismic Games paves new game category on Facebook with CelebrityMe Posted byby Dean Takahashi March 28, 2012 4 min Social game startup Seismic Games is launching CelebrityMe, a new Facebook title that lets players live out the fantasy of being a celebrity. The... Continue Reading 4 min
Categories Posted inin Development Meet the one OMGPOP employee who turned down a new job at Zynga Posted byby GamesBeat March 27, 2012 2 min In the torrent of coverage about Zynga’s purchase of OMGPOP last week, most of the focus was on the price, eventually revealed to be... Continue Reading 2 min
Categories Posted inin Development Mobile search ad StartApp raises $4M in first round of funding Posted byby Jeff Grubb March 27, 2012 2 min StartApp, a startup in the mobile-ad space on Android, raises $4 million in its initial round of funding. StartApp got the money so that... Continue Reading 2 min
Categories Posted inin Development Gree launches second U.S. social mobile game, Alien Family Posted byby Dean Takahashi March 26, 2012 2 min Gree made a splash last week with the launch of its first mobile social game for the U.S. market, Zombie Jombie. Now the Japanese... Continue Reading 2 min
Categories Posted inin Development The Daily doubles down on custom app development, hints about move to iPhone Posted byby GamesBeat March 21, 2012 2 min The Daily, which began life as Rupert Murdoch’s first stab at a tablet only newspaper, has found a new life as a custom app... Continue Reading 2 min
Categories Posted inin Development Game startups: Get ready for the Who’s Got Game startup competition Posted byby Dean Takahashi March 20, 2012 1 min We’d like to formally kick off our Who’s Got Game contest for the industry’s best game startup. The event will take place during our... Continue Reading 1 min