Facebook backer Jim Breyer teams up with Keith Lee’s location-game startup Booyah
Forget Foursquare. Get over Gowalla. Jim Breyer of Accel Partners, a board member of Facebook and Walmart, is backing a different location-based app: Palo...
Nickelodeon’s AddictingGames launches virtual goods platform
Nickelodeon is launching a virtual goods platform today for its AddictingGames casual games web site. AddictingGames has the biggest audience for casual games on...
Sibblingz rolls out social-game platform with Crowdstar
Sibblingz launched a social game platform today that lets publishers release games that players can enjoy on multiple game devices. One of the first...
Offerpal Media launches a virtual money war with Facebook
Offerpal Media is launching a universal virtual currency for games today as part of an effort to expand its reach and revenues in the...
Social Gold takes a blast at the tyranny of Facebook Credits
Facebook announced this week that it will be launching its Facebook Credits virtual currency in June so that people can spend real money on...
Social Gaming Summit is right around the corner (VB discount included)
These are very exciting times for the rapidly evolving social-gaming space. The Social Gaming Summit will bring together leaders in free-to-play games, social networking,...
How Facebook plans to fuel the app economy with Facebook Credits
New details emerged today on Facebook Credits, a long-awaited virtual currency on the social network that will likely have a lot of impact on...
Zynga’s Mark Pincus: Time for Facebook to choose
Facebook’s biggest partner had a suggestion for the adolescent social network: figure out what it wants to be when it grows up. “Facebook is...
Kontagent gets 50M users for Facebook analytics tool, raises $1.25M
Kontagent is announcing today that its Facebook viral analytics tool is being used by companies with 50 million users on the social network. It...
CONNECTIONS: The Digital Living Conference and Showcase
Over 40 percent of U.S. broadband households are very positive on TV Everywhere services — offerings that let cable customers view TV programs online...