Tag Archives: Zynga

Catwang and the Rise Of The Digital Sticker Economy

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Franky Aguilar was tired of drawing family-friendly cartoons. The young designer was pulling down $90,000 a year at gaming giant Zynga when, in early 2012, he started hanging out at a Starbucks in...

Why It’s Scary When 0.15% Mobile Gamers Bring In 50% Of The Revenue

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There’s a new report out from Swrve which says 0.15% of mobile players account for 50% of mobile games revenue. The general idea isn’t exactly groundbreaking news, but those specific numbers seem...

Snapchat Poaches Google Engineer, Because…. Private Cloud

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An interesting piece of news the other day that Peter Magnusson, one of the tzars of Google's Google App Engine (GAE) platform has left Google. Not only that but he’s gone to work for one of GAE’s...

‘Candy’ Crush Saga’ maker King Digital plans IPO

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NEW YORK (AP) — The maker of the blockbuster mobile game "Candy Crush Saga" will attempt to raise as much as $500 million in an initial public offering. King Digital Entertainment PLC, which also...

App Market Globalization The Big Theme of 2014

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According to App Annie, Japan became the biggest app market in the world last October, surpassing the United States and continuing to grow at a far faster clip. Many app vendors started reacting to...

Week Ahead: Jobs, Earnings, Emerging Markets, Debt Ceiling & Twitter

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Stocks in the Dow Jones have lost about 5% so far this year already – and in the next week U.S. shares will have to navigate another storm of big company earnings, data on job creation and other...