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Jibe raises $8.3M to build rich, real-time communications for games and apps

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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If you ever tried playing a game in real-time against another human opponent on a mobile device, you might find it difficult to do. The lag in transferring data from one smartphone to another can be pretty bad. Jibe Mobile has built a network to solve that problem and deliver rich communications (such as video chat), real-time games, and other innovations on mobile devices.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.