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Why hasn’t Digg made any progress? It’s worth only $164M now

Posted byby GamesBeat
November 6, 2008
2 min

Has the news site Digg really made no progress in two years? That’s what you’d have to conclude from the value investors are placing...

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Web 2.0 Summit: a conversation with venture capitalist John Doerr

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
November 6, 2008
2 min

Journalist John Heileman is interviewing John Doerr on stage at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco today. His first question: Who should Barack...

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Wild Tangent’s chief Alex St. John talks about elevating COO, shutting game studio

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
November 4, 2008
3 min

Alex St. John was one of the renegades at Microsoft back in the day. He cut an imposing figure as he wandered the halls...

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Mytopia shifts from games to cross-platform technology

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
November 4, 2008
2 min

Mytopia started as an online games company. But that business is now a sideshow. The company’s real business will now revolve around its technology...

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Updated: KingsIsle adds new pricing model for teen-focused online game Wizard101

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
November 2, 2008
3 min

Teens don’t carry a lot of credit cards with them. That’s why KingsIsle Entertainment is expected to announce on Monday an alternative payment system...

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Electronics Arts reports loss, will lay off more than 500 workers

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
October 31, 2008
3 min

Electronic Arts reported a big loss today and said it would lay off 6 percent of its 9,000-person work force, or roughly 540 people....

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Nintendo dishes out another stellar earnings report: DS has now outsold the GameBoy

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
October 30, 2008
2 min

Nintendo reported another record for the six-month period from April to September. The record sales, profits and shipments move the company a step closer...