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Aurora Feint the comprehensive social gaming platform behind OpenFeint, is getting into the iPad game today with the launch of release of Aurora Feint 3, a free-to-play massively multi-player social gaming app based around virtual goods.
Unsurprisingly, the game leverages OpenFeint X, which allows game developers to create Zynga-like free-to-play games including microtransactions and virtual [...]
Fri, April 2 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Mobile advertising company AdMarvel, fresh off the heels of being acquired by Opera Software for a reported $8 million plus earn-out, has teamed up with Gannett subsidiary PointRoll to launch an advertising platform for Apple’s iPad.
Dubbed the iPad Advertising Platform, the companies aim to combine PointRoll’s rich media technology with AdMarvel’s mobile advertising capabilities.
The launch [...]
Tue, March 23 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Pixelpipe, the service that lets you syndicate text, audio, video and image files to 120 different social networks, blogs and sites, is adding geolocation functionality to its site with a Foursquare integration. The true virtue of Pixelpipe’s service is the fact that it lets you publish all types of files to various social networks and [...]
Sun, March 14 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
SeaWell Networks, a fledgling Canadian provider of Internet video delivery products designed for use by content producers and their delivery partners, has secured $7 million in first-round funding led by BDC Venture Capital and joined by Northwater Intellectual Property Fund and Ontario Centres of Excellence.
The round includes the conversion of prior seed funding.
Founded in 2008, [...]
Mon, March 8 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Facebook has been doing background checks, known as due diligence, on the location-based social network Loopt, a source with knowledge of the talks tells us. Generally speaking, due diligence of this kind is only performed when a company is in acquisition or fundraising talks.
Loopt won’t comment on this story, and a Facebook spokesperson says “As [...]
Thu, February 25 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Apple thinks of itself as a mobile device company. In January at the iPad launch event, Steve Jobs noted that “Apple is the largest mobile devices company in the world now.” And responding to a direct question today at a Goldman Sachs conference, liveblogged by the WSJ, COO Tim Cook reiterated: “Yes, you should [...]
Tue, February 23 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
HipLogic’s smartphone interface for non-smartphones recently made news when the startup rolled out a consumer version of its downloadable application that delivers content—including Facebook, Twitter, CBS news, CBS sports, and weather—to select Windows Mobile or Symbian devices. HipLogic is centered around the promise to bring the feel of an iPhone interface and app store [...]
Fri, February 12 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
