Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba rumored to be working on its own game console for China Posted byby Dean Takahashi December 22, 2014 2 min The new machine would compete with Sony and Microsoft in China. Continue Reading 2 min
Kabam’s No. 2 exec explores the ins-and-outs of monetizing mobile games Posted byby Dean Takahashi December 15, 2014 16 min Kabam's Kent Wakeford dissects how to think about the complicated matrix of mobile monetization. Continue Reading 16 min
China’s KTplay mobile social network drives 60M game downloads in 4 months Posted byby Dean Takahashi December 9, 2014 3 min KTplay, spun out of Yodo1 and funded in part by Alibaba, now has 4 million daily active users. Continue Reading 3 min
The Tech Rapture? Why Tuesday Sept. 9 is the nexus of all things high-tech Posted byby Dean Takahashi September 7, 2014 4 min Tech titans and startups alike will be competing for the spotlight on 9/9/14. A bunch of folks just didn't get the memo about Apple's event. Continue Reading 4 min
Papaya Mobile's Appflood helps Chinese game makers succeed outside their homeland (interview) Posted byby Dean Takahashi August 12, 2014 6 min With Appflood, PapayaMobile is promoting itself as having the only transparent global mobile ad network. Continue Reading 6 min
How Tencent sees the worldwide opportunity in gaming investments (interview) Posted byby Dean Takahashi August 5, 2014 10 min Bo Wang, vice president of Tencent Games at the Chinese entertainment, talks about the worldwide vision for games. Continue Reading 10 min
East meets West in mobile games as Kabam raises $120M from China's Alibaba Group Posted byby Dean Takahashi July 31, 2014 2 min China's giant Internet firm Alibaba makes its move into Western games via a strategic deal with Kabam. Continue Reading 2 min
Hoping to ignite a mobile messaging wildfire, Tango snares Zynga's Words with Friends Posted byby Dean Takahashi April 3, 2014 2 min With Alibaba's investment, Tango is starting to sign bigger games for its network. Continue Reading 2 min
Chasing Facebook, Alibaba leads an astounding $280M round in mobile messaging network Tango Posted byby Dean Takahashi March 20, 2014 3 min With 200M members, Tango credits mobile games for setting apart its mobile messaging network. Continue Reading 3 min
Tencent faces a new threat to its mobile-gaming biz: Alibaba, the Amazon of China Posted byby Jeff Grubb January 8, 2014 2 min Gaming is the latest part of Alibaba's growing mobile strategy. Continue Reading 2 min