You can learn a lot at just one school. It would be extremely inconvenient if you had to go to separate institutions for communications, business, gastronomy, and cartography. Thankfully, there’s just OneSchool for all of that. OneSchool, a TriplePoint client you could learn from, just closed a $750,000 seed round and launched the OneSchool app [...]
Continue reading...21. September 2010
PerBlue, a mobile and social gaming company, announced today a new round of funding per the Golden Angels of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. This comes along with additional investment from groups out of Seattle and San Francisco. “PerBlue has differentiated itself by making deeper and more innovative games than many of our competitors,” PerBlue CEO Justin Beck [...]
Continue reading...11. July 2010
Yesterday heralded the arrival of an unconfirmed (at least by the parties in question) rumor that Google has invested at least $100 million in social gaming giant Zynga. This investment would bring the total amount of venture capital raised by Zynga in the past year to around half a billion dollars. According to TechCrunch, the [...]
Continue reading...10. July 2010
On Wednesday, mobile game publisher Glu Mobile announced that it has entered into an agreement for the sale of common stock, resulting in a substantial chunk of money via private placement of its shares: $13.5 million. The money is coming from ten existing and ten new investors, including Greenway Capital, GGV Capital, and New Enterprise [...]
Continue reading...8. July 2010
You may not have heard of Coveroo, a mobile phone accessory company, but they’re what’s left of Wallop, a now-defunct social network, that, once dissolved, triggered CEO Karl Jacob to put his money into a new aspect of personalization – that being to personalize the devices we all carry around everyday. From that came Coveroo, [...]
Continue reading...13. June 2010
Sony Online Entertainment’s Gamers In Real Life (G.I.R.L.) competition has been won by student Sylvia Liu. She has been awarded a $10,000 scholarship and a 10-week paid internship. G.I.R.L. aims to bring more women into the industry and overall encourage the creation of more women-friendly games. Liu, who is a student at Art Center College [...]
Continue reading...12. June 2010
TriplePoint client Social Gold has partnered with international payment networks GASH and MyCard, expanding its reach into Southeast Asia. Partnerships with GASH and MyCard allow the virtual goods monetization platform to support local currency payments from users in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia and Macau. Social Gold will now support more Asian currencies, including the [...]
Continue reading...27. May 2010
Industry Gamers is reporting that DFC Intelligence announced the release of reports that covers the interactive entertainment industry as a whole. The DFC firm has forecasted that overall revenue for the entire video game industry is expected to hit $70.1 billion dollars by 2015. 2009 had a record breaking $60.4 billion in revenue across the [...]
Continue reading...15. May 2010
The Mother’s Day gift giving market is second only to the winter holiday market, and this year social game publishers decided to invest in the season. I’m sure you saw all of your social games receive some sort of attention; free gifts, new themes, new purchasable items all swamped games preceding and during the holiday. [...]
Continue reading...8. May 2010
Going to school and need some extra cash? Headed into the game industry when you graduate? Apply now for the Official Penny Arcade Scholarship and you could get $10,000 to use on rent, food, books, tuition, you name it. The scholarship is good for the 2010-2011 academic school year and the winner will be announced [...]
Continue reading...28. April 2010
Zong, which provides mobile payments for many Facebook app developers and the partner for the upcoming Credits system has raised $15 million according to Inside Social Games. Echovox, the parent company has been supporting the venture for three years and this is the furst time the company has had investment funding. Zong’s rival, Boku raised [...]
Continue reading...25. April 2010
Three months ago, players of Zynga’s social games raised $1.5 million for Haiti aid. Now, over the course of two five day events, Mafia Wars and Fishville players have raised $130,000 for Water.org and the Huntington’s Disease Society of America (HDSA). As reported by Mashable, Fishville players bought 70,000 limited edition virtual fish for the [...]
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24. January 2012
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