Mobile Summit Archives

Start-up rags to riches: Super-successful Gabe Leydon was unemployed before starting Machine Zone

Posted byby GamesBeat
April 5, 2016
2 min

There’s a mythology to successful startup leaders, and part of it is that they can’t fail. We lionize successful entrepreneurs, and elevate those with...

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Facebook’s Parse could ‘gobble up’ a bigger role in VR and next-gen app development

Posted byby GamesBeat
February 25, 2015
2 min

The CEO of Parse, a leading development platform for mobile apps, said at VentureBeat's Mobile Summit that the platform can also be used to build apps for Oculus and other next-gen systems.

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2 min

Mobile Summit: Top-tier speaker line-up announced

Posted byby GamesBeat
January 28, 2015
1 min

As the world becomes more mobile by the minute, those businesses at the bleeding edge of innovation will succeed in leveraging customers -- and their devices -- wherever they are.

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HTML5 apps can be just as speedy as native apps with the new Famo.us Javascript framework

Posted byby GamesBeat
April 9, 2014
3 min

"We have a Ferrari engine. ... People who understand JavaScript adopt Famo.us within twenty minutes."

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3 min

VentureBeat hosts 6 industry-leading events in 2014 — here’s the lineup

Posted byby GamesBeat
February 11, 2014
2 min

VentureBeat is proud to announce that we’re hosting six industry-leading events in 2014. The lineup includes long-standing events like our Mobile Summit, MobileBeat, and...

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How all app publishers can benefit from the mobile gaming industry’s best practices

Posted byby GamesBeat
April 4, 2013
3 min

Free-to-play has revolutionized the monetization model in gaming by charging players based on their willingness to pay, instead of displaying one set price for all. Indeed, through a dynamic pricing scheme for in-app purchase items, free-to-play has enabled game publishers to monetize the whole of the price/demand curve.

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3 min

3 things the mobile industry can learn about advertising from gaming

Posted byby GamesBeat
March 29, 2013
4 min

Mobile gaming apps have been quietly reinventing mobile advertising and out-monetizing even the large, well-established publishers. Here are a few things the mobile games companies have worked out along the way.

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4 min

Crossing the ‘uncanny valley’: Nvidia’s Faceworks renders realistic human faces

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
March 19, 2013
2 min

Technology might be used to cross the "uncanny valley."

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