Allan Leinwand, the CTO of infrastructure and lead force behind Zynga's hybrid cloud efforts, has left the struggling games company to become the CTO of ServiceNow.
Social gaming pioneer Blake Commagere has created MediaSpike to enable large-scale product placement in social games. That could generate an alternative source of revenue at a time when social gaming growth is flattening.
Tonight, Game Closure's 27-year-old chief executive took the stage at StartX's demo day to inspire fellow entrepreneurs with the company's founding story.