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- Amid Merger, Game Ad Firm NeoEdge Gets EA Vet Mansford As New CEO
- NeoEdge, the casual and online game advertising platform, is getting into the game development business. The company has merged with Offspring, a startup founded by a team of four EA vets, and will start creating casual and social games, as well as the ad platforms to support them. Offspring...
- External links 2009-11-19
- Gamestop Preps For Digital Distribution, But Used Games Still Drive Most Profits
- Despite a slump in game sales industry-wide, GameStop delivered strong Q3 numbers—performing much better than it did in the previous quarter, and vs. Q308. The company delivered a 31-cent share profit on $1.83 billion in revenues, up 8.2 percent year-over-year; net profit was up nearly 12 percent. As has...
- External links 2009-11-19
- Morgan Freeman-Backed Digiboo Launching Movie Download Kiosks
- Maybe letting people download, transport and then play movies using a USB drive will be the ticket to busting Hollywood’s DVD sales slump. That’s the logic behind studio-backed initiatives from DivX, CinemaNow and Widevine, and now, Digiboo, an L.A.-based startup that just got a cash injection from Revelations Entertainment,...
- External links 2009-11-19
- Sony Prepping A Pay-To-Play Service For The PlayStation Network
- Functionality aside, one of the biggest differences between Microsoft’s Xbox LIVE gamer network, and Sony’s PlayStation Network PSN has been the cost: If you want to play against other gamers on Xbox LIVE, you need to pay around $50 annually for Gold service though various retailers offer discount cards;...
- External links 2009-11-19
- eBay Successfully Sells Skype?Gets $1.9 Billion Cash Up Front
- eBay (NSDQ: EBAY) has closed its deal to sell VoIP service Skype for roughly $2.75 billion. The group of buyers—including Joltid Limited, Andreessen Horowitz and others—are paying $1.9 billion in cash up front, with $125 million in principal notes. eBay is retaining a 30 percent stake in Skype, as...
- External links 2009-11-19
- Why Sony's Planned Music Store Won't Start Out As A Serious iTunes Challenger
- Sony keeps flip-flopping over adding music downloads to the PlayStation Network PSN. After scrapping plans to add a music store to the gaming network—complete with the ability for gamers to port tracks to the handheld PSP—comes news that the company will indeed expand the PSN into a full digital...
- External links 2009-11-20
- Socialware Raises $1.5 Million For Social Networking Tech
- Stealthy social networking tech development firm Socialware has raised $1.5 million worth of a proposed $1.7 million round of funding, according to an SEC filing. The Austin-based startup initially raised $300,000 in June. Silverton Partners principal Morgan Flager is listed as one of the company’s board members now; we’ve...
- External links 2009-08-18
- MLG Acquires Gameplay Data Firm Agora Games
- Professional video game league Major League Gaming MLG has acquired Agora Games, a game tech company that powers the publisher-owned online communities for games like Guitar Hero and Call of Duty. Agora Games will operate as a wholly-owned subsidiary of MLG. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed,...
- External links 2009-08-18
- More Employers Scanning Facebook For New Hires Than LinkedIn
- Facebook may be the stickiest social network here in the U.S.—but LinkedIn is thought to be the default network for a “professional” profile and job history. So why are more employers using Facebook to do background checks on potential new hires than LinkedIn? Almost 30 percent of hiring managers...
- External links 2009-08-19
- Ustream Gets Sued For Streaming Pirated Roy Jones, Jr. Fight
- Anyone with a camera and a computer can pump out their own web show using a live-streaming service like Ustream—the problem is, that also makes it easy for people to stream pirated content. That leaves the site liable, in some cases, for copyright infringement litigation. Case in point: Ustream...
- External links 2009-08-17
- Ad Targeter [x + 1] Adds $2 Million In Funding
- Online ad targeting firm x+1 has raised $2 million in a second round of funding, per an SEC filing. The NY-based company bundles behavioral targeting and ad analytics for marketers and media-buying agencies. It raised $16 million in a round led by Advanced Technology Ventures last year; we've put...
- External links 2009-08-17
- JanRain Raises $1 Million In Funding For OpenID Products
- Online identity management tech firm JanRain has raised $1 million worth in a first round of funding, according to an SEC filing—part of a $3 million round. JanRain's products integrate OpenID, a universal profile that lets people use one screen name to access content and accounts on multiple sites....
- External links 2009-08-13
- Earnings: Blockbuster's Revs Slip Amid Tough Competition, Lowers Guidance
- *Blockbuster* is trying to do everything it can to stay relevant—from brokering deals to get its OnDemand streaming service in Samsung TVs, to rolling out rental kiosks, to renting films through *TiVo*—but judging from its Q2 earnings performance, rivals like *Netflix* and Redbox continue to chip away at its...
- External links 2009-08-13
- Warner Bros. Throws DVD Rental Gauntlet Down At Redbox?And Netflix
- The battle between the movie studios and new movie rental services (like Redbox and *Netflix*—but not Blockbuster) is quickly evolving into a full-blown war. Warner Bros. has joined Universal and Fox in trying to keep movies out of Redbox kiosks until about a month after their release date—but it...
- External links 2009-08-14
- Kid-Friendly Online Gamer Roblox Raises $2.2 Million
- Roblox has raised roughly $2.2 million in funding for its virtual world/casual game hybrid, according to an SEC filing. Altos Ventures and First Round Capital participated in the round, per VentureWire. Roblox lets kids socialize, play games and build their own virtual environments; many of the games on the...
- External links 2009-08-14
- Interactive Agency BigBad Raises Over $360,000 In Funding
- Boston-based digital marketing agency BigBad has picked up over $360,000 in funding; part of a $600,000 overall round, per an SEC filing. The agency did not immediately respond to a request for further info.BigBad mostly develops websites and corporate extranets for institutions like the JFK Presidential Library & Museum...
- External links 2009-08-14
- Report: Sony Aims For iPhone Crowd With PSP Game Pricing
- *Sony* launched its new PSPgo handheld amid a ton of hype at E3, but most of the buzz swirled around how expensive it was. (Its $250 price tag is almost $100 higher than the best-selling Nintendo DSi). But Sony (NYSE: SNE) is trying rectify that by luring gamers—and more...
- External links 2009-08-14
- TheStreet.com Misses Earnings, Citing Discrepancies From Promotions.com Deal
- TheStreet.com (NSDQ: TSCM) missed is Q209 earnings report—and has been cited by Nasdaq for the deficiency. What's holding up the numbers? The financial services media company says there's an "issue" related to the way it has been recording revenues from its Promotions.com business (which TheStreet.com acquired as part of...
- External links 2009-08-14
- myYearbook Turns A Profit By Getting Users To Pay
- While pure-play media sites try to figure out how to offset ad sales declines by charging readers, it seems that social networks—surprisingly—are making faster progress at getting their users to pay up. The latest example is teen-friendly social net myYearbook, which says it's now profitable because of a subscription...
- External links 2009-08-17
- BREAKING: A&E Television To Acquire Lifetime
- A&E Television Networks AETN, the NBCU/Disney/Hearst JV that produces shows like Intervention and runs networks like The History Channel, is acquiring Lifetime Entertainment. Financial terms were not disclosed, but Lifetime will operate as a subsidiary of A&E, with both companies retaining their separate branding.AETN President and CEO Abbe Raven...
- External links 2009-08-27
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