Technology

A relatively obscure part of the social networking business has come into the limelight. It’s about special ads known as “offers” that are used...

Here’s the video we shot on Friday at the Virtual Goods Summit, where we heard how Asia’s virtual goods market is seven times bigger...

Games have been the No. 1 app on Apple’s iPhone for a while. That was true every month from August 2008 to August 2009....

Scarcity — it’s the first concept drilled into any beginning economics major. And economics is about the production, distribution and consumption of scarce resources....

The virtual goods industry in Asia is generating about $7 billion a year in revenue, about seven times the number in the U.S. The...

Social farm games now dominate all major Chinese social networking sites--RenRen, Kaixin001, 51.com and QQ's massive QZone. Happy Farm, the first and largest social farm game, now exceeds 23 million daily active users. Including QQ Farm's rumored 100 million total users, China may already be the largest market for social farm games in the world.

Online payments firm Jambool said today it is bringing its in-game payments system to games based on Adobe Flash. That means it will be...

Layar, which has forged early leadership in the nascent but inspiring field of “augmented reality,” is about to finish raising a round of more...

Nvidia saw a steep loss in market share even as graphics chip sales soared 21 percent in the third quarter. The strong overall market...