China’s KTplay mobile social network drives 60M game downloads in 4 months
KTplay, spun out of Yodo1 and funded in part by Alibaba, now has 4 million daily active users.
Japan’s DeNA cuts mobile gaming deals with Chinese carriers that have a billion users
Japanese mobile social gaming network firm DeNA has announced it has signed deals with China’s three largest mobile carriers, enabling DeNA’s games to get...
PlayPhone buys mobile marketing firm SocialHour for $51.5M (exclusive)
PlayPhone has acquired mobile social marketing firm SocialHour for $51.5 million in stock, VentureBeat has learned. Ron Czerny, chief executive of PlayPhone, confirmed the...
Mig33 launches Twitter-like Miniblog for emerging mobile markets
Mig33, which operates mobile social networks in emerging markets, is launching a new Twitter-like social communication service called the “Mig33 miniblog.” The move represents...
Japanese firms battle for mobile social game supremacy
The Japanese are coming. In the wide open field of mobile social gaming, two large-scale Japanese companies, both of which have made major acquisitions...
OpenFeint launches Game Channel to discover Android games
OpenFeint, the mobile social network division of Japan’s Gree, is announcing a Game Channel today that will help users discover new game apps on Android mobile devices. Amid...
Mobile social games firm Ngmoco hires chief marketing officer
Mobile social games firm Ngmoco has hired a former Mattel executive, Michael Staskin, as its chief marketing officer. His job will be to ensure that...
DeNA and Ngmoco launch Mobage mobile social network across globe
DeNA and its American subsidiary Ngmoco announced today they have launched the Mobage mobile social network in English-speaking territories around the globe. The Mobage...
Ngmoco prepares for Mobage mobile social game network launch
Ngmoco, the mobile gaming startup that was acquired by Japan’s DeNA last year, is preparing to launch its social network for mobile games in...
Heyzap scores 4.6M users in two months for mobile game check-ins
Heyzap launched a way for gamers to “check in” to mobile games on Android a couple of months ago and has already reached 4.6...