Facebook confirms plans to make Credits the mandatory “universal currency”
Updated with analyst comments. Facebook is announcing the next phase in the rollout of its virtual currency, Facebook Credits, which is leaving beta testing...
Week in review: Eighth grader tops Angry Birds in the App Store
Here’s our roundup of the week’s top tech business news. First, the most popular stories published by VentureBeat in the last seven days: Eighth...
Badgeville’s gamification rewards snare dozens of customers
Badgeville creates reward systems that make web sites more engaging for users. Since unveiling its business in October, the company has rounded up 25...
Will the old Dating Game brand work on Facebook?
Old brands don’t necessarily do that well on Facebook and other social media. But 3G Studios is betting that it has the right brand...
Peter Relan takes over as CEO of social game firm CrowdStar (exclusive)
There’s some shuffling in the management suite at CrowdStar, a social game company with 47 million monthly active users on Facebook. Niren Hiro is...
Zynga buys social browser Flock … or maybe just its engineering team
Social Web browser Flock just announced that it has been acquired by social gaming giant Zynga, confirming an earlier report in TechCrunch. Chief executive...
Week in review: Apple increases 2011 iPhone shipments
Here’s our roundup of the week’s tech business news (shorter than usual since there’s not exactly a flood of news between Christmas and New...
Week in review: Skype outage affects tens of millions
Here’s our roundup of the of the week’s tech business news. (It’s shorter than usual, owing to the fact that there’s less going on...
A million people have pulled out their virtual wallets in Nexon’s MapleStory online game
When Nexon brought its free-to-play MapleStory online game to the U.S. in 2005, everyone shook their heads. Everybody was skeptical that American gamers would...
Zynga launches Mafia Wars Atlantic City for mobile phones
Zynga launched a mobile version of its Mafia Wars Atlantic City game today. The game is the social game company’s first designed for the...