King.com takes tournament games into Facebook
King.com, a popular casual gaming site with 25 million unique players a month, is moving into social games in a big way. The company...
Zynga’s new funding values CityVille maker at $10B
It looks like early reports about social gaming giant Zynga’s new funding round were a little conservative. Earlier this week, the Wall Street Journal...
CityVille maker Zynga rumored to be raising $250M round at $7B valuation
Social game maker Zynga is reportedly talking to investors about raising a new $250 million round of funding that values the company at $7 – $9...
Richard Garriott: My plan to beat FarmVille and CityVille (video)
Richard Garriott is known as a video-game pioneer, an undersea diver and an astronaut. Now he wants to outdo Zynga, the creator of FarmVille...
Can Nexon make social games more engaging? (video)
Nexon has proven to be one of the fastest-growing online game companies of the past decade. The Korean company pioneered the microtransactions/free-to-play business model,...
With the social game flood, Kontagent’s analytics track 100 million users
Kontagent, which makes software to help social app makers make sense of user behavior, is announcing today that its analytics tools are tracking more...
Visa approves this transaction: PlaySpan for $190M
Visa has agreed to buy virtual goods company PlaySpan for $190 million in a big move into the market for digital goods. PlaySpan enables...
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...