CrowdStar’s Starfund targets mobile game developers with $250K investments (exclusive)
CrowdStar‘s $10 million StarFund investment fund has made investments in six new mobile game startups for about $250,000 each. The first fruits from that...
Nvidia hides a fifth core in its Kal-El mobile processor
Nvidia revealed today that its quad-core next-generation Tegra mobile processor has a surprise in it: a fifth core, or computing brain. The processor, code-named...
MindJolt gets a third of its revenues from social mobile games
MindJolt got a lot of goodness with its acquisition of mobile game maker SGN back in April. Mobile game revenues now account for a...
Emerging markets will spend billions on games this year
Gamers are expected to spend billions of dollars in emerging markets this year such as Brazil, Mexico and Russia, according to market researcher Newzoo, based in...
Virtual goods purchases vary by ethnicity
White and black mobile social gamers spend more on virtual goods purchases than Hispanics spend less, according to a survey by mobile gaming firm...
After three pivots, Playhaven finds a niche in monetizing mobile apps
Playhaven started life as a gamer’s social network. Then it morphed into making communities for mobile games. Now, after its third pivot, the company...
China’s PapayaMobile reveals strong growth stats for mobile games
PapayaMobile, China-based maker of a mobile social networking platform for Android phones, now has more than 25 million users, up 940 percent since January...
Claritics expands into mobile analytics for Android apps
Social analytics firm Claritics said today it has launched a new analytics platform for games and apps on Android mobile devices. Back in May,...
Zynga acquiring Astro Ape? Key executives change LinkedIn company to “Zynga”
Gaming company Zynga may be acquiring mobile gaming studio Astro Ape. Business Insider reported that Astro Ape employees have been changing their LinkedIn employment...
iQU launches marketing and analytics service for online games
Gamer-profiling company iQU is launching an analytics and marketing platform to help online games find more users through mobile and social networks. The Haarlem,...