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Facebook Hires Sean Ryan from News Corp to Head Games Partnerships
The small Facebook team that interfaces directly with game developers is growing, with the addition today of Sean Ryan as director of games partnerships, according to All Things D. Ryan had just joined...
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CoinWhale Kicks Off Combo Deals for Virtual Currency in Social Games
Cross-promoting games on Facebook has become a big deal for many developers, since Facebook clamped down on its viral channels. We’ve just spoken to CoinWhale, the latest startup aimed at helping to...
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Tapjoy Lures Zynga to AppStrip, Doubles Network Size
Two months ago, Tapjoy acquired a cross-promotion bar called AppStrip from its creator, Broken Bulb Studios. Following the sale AppStrip seemed to have relatively few users compared to its main...
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Facebook Ads and the Rising Cost of User Acquisition
[Editor's note: Hussein Fazal is CEO of AdParlor, an ad management company for Facebook campaigns with social gaming clients including Ubisoft, PlayFirst and Five Minutes.] One of the most frequent...
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Zynga Sets Up RewardVille for Dedicated Players
For several weeks, the small community of domainer blogs (written for people who invest in domain names) have been following a small mystery: Zynga appeared to have bought a site called...
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This Week’s Headlines on Inside Facebook
Check out the top headlines and insights this week from Inside Facebook— tracking Facebook and the Facebook platform for developers and marketers. Sunday, January 23rd, 2011 Facebook Agrees to Change...
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Sibblingz Talks WebGL and Cross-Ported Games
Web and mobile game engineers tend to spend a lot of time speculating how development for their various platforms will converge — Facebook, iOS, Android, and potential future additions. Sibblingz CEO...
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Zynga Picks Up iOS Game Engine Developers Through Partial Acquisition of...
Zynga brought on two major contributors to an open source 2-D game engine for the iPhone today through a partial acquisition of Sapus Media. Ricardo Quesada and Rolando Abarca, two South American...
View ArticleZynga’s Project Z Network No Threat to Facebook for Now
Zynga’s newly-christened “Project Z” (or “Zynga Direct,” to hear CEO Mark Pincus tell it) is a forthcoming social games platform and social network enabled through Facebook Connect. It is also, some...
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zCloud evolution heralds ZLive launch
Zynga’s aggressive development on its private cloud infrastructure, zCloud, shows us just how close the developer is to hosting an independent games platform. Zynga started sharing more details on its...
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