Goplay launches portal for social games on the web (exclusive)
Goplay is launching a web portal for social games in the hopes of luring disaffected publishers away from Facebook. With Goplay, developers can make...
Bejeweled maker PopCap bets on Facebook casino-game gold rush
Ever since the Justice Department opened the door to the legalization of online gambling, the leading creators of social games are feeling increasingly lucky....
Mobile ad startup Kiip hires Zynga’s advertising chief as COO
Kiip is announcing today that it has hired Zynga’s ad boss Manny Anekal as chief operating officer. San Francisco-based Kiip is a fast-growing startup...
Small companies can do quick market research with Peanut Labs’ Crowdvibe (exclusive)
Peanut Labs is launching its Crowdvibe site today to allow anyone to create quick polls or market research surveys with large numbers of respondents...
Kabam looks beyond Facebook for its growth in hardcore social games (exclusive)
Kabam made its mark in social games on Facebook, but the company is rapidly diversifying away from the social network as it pursues fans...
Google+ scores Digital Chocolate’s Gangs of Boomtown as an exclusive social game
Digital Chocolate is launching its new social game Gangs of Boomtown as an exclusive title for Google+. The title is the third that Digital...
Zynga’s hybrid zCloud lets it get rid of two out of every three servers
Social game maker Zynga has shifted 80 percent of its game traffic to its own private data center servers, known as the zCloud, the company revealed yesterday...
Looking beyond Facebook, Zynga hits 15M daily mobile game users
Zynga chief executive Mark Pincus said the social game company now has more than 15 million daily active users for its mobile games, compared...
Zynga beats earnings estimates for its first-ever quarterly report as a public company
Social game maker Zynga reported a modest profit for the fourth-quarter in its first-ever quarter financial report today. The non-GAAP earnings per share were five...
Love connection: 1 in 10 Words With Friends score in real life
Perhaps it’s time to start calling it Words With Friends With Benefits. Fans of Zynga‘s Words With Friends social game on Facebook are making...