Sometrics works out a virtual currency exchange with Facebook (exclusive)
Social app platform maker Sometrics is announcing today that its virtual currency can be exchanged into Facebook’s own new virtual currency, Facebook Credits. The...
Kontagent game-analytics to help small developers take on social game leaders
Can Kontagent help David topple Goliath through better analytics? Social game companies such as Zynga consider their analytics — the data they collect about...
Scoreloop delivers social game platform for Samsung phones and TVs
Smartphone games are starting to spread out beyond the Apple iPhone and Google Android platforms. In support of that trend, Scoreloop is announcing today...
Contest winner Infrinity snags a speaking spot at DiscoveryBeat 2010
To Infrinity and beyond! That’s the battle cry for Infrinity, the startup that has won our Needle in the Haystack business contest for DiscoveryBeat...
7 new experts who will share their app secrets at DiscoveryBeat 2010
We’re entering the home stretch in preparations for DiscoveryBeat 2010, our conference about how to get apps noticed. DiscoveryBeat 2010 is an event focused...
33 ways to make your app a hit: VentureBeat’s Discovery Directory
As app stores multiply and the number of publicly released apps — just the ones we can see and count — approaches 1 million,...
A Bit Lucky scores on Facebook with its Lucky Train game
With social gaming consolidating around big startups, people are starting to wonder if there is no more room for Facebook game startups. But the...
Following scandal, Offerpal changes name to Tapjoy
When a startup changes its name, there is something good about the new name and something bad about the old one. That’s the case...
Will Hi5’s new SocioPath game platform lure developers away from Facebook?
Ever since Alex St. John joined Hi5 as president last fall, he has been promising to stick it to Facebook, the social network that...
Media Chaperone’s Piggyback lets parents monitor kid gamers on Facebook
The audience for social networks is getting younger and younger as more children are drawn to the cute social games that have become the...