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| Aug 27, 2013 | King sues 6waves for allegedly copying two social games (exclusive) | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
King, the highly successful maker of casual mobile and social games, is suing rival 6waves for allegedly copying significant portions o... |
| May 13, 2013 | Pixel People Hits $700K In Three Months After Distributing With Chillingo | Pixel People, an iOS game, has raked in $700,000 over 2 million downloads in the span of three months, said the game’s maker, Lambdamu. The key to their success, according to a company spokesperson, was a distribution deal with Chillingo.
T... |
| Jul 16, 2012 | Mandala adds French touch to social casino games | Social casino games are hot this year. Mandala, a startup based in Nantes, France, hopes to add the French touch to them. The company just partnered with Hong Kong-based social gaming firm 6waves to publish Mandala’s upcoming La Riviera on ... |
| Jul 16, 2012 | Mandala adds French touch to social casino games | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Social casino games are hot this year. Mandala, a startup based in Nantes, France, hopes to add the French touch to them. The company j... |
| Jul 6, 2012 | Mobile Gaming Startup Zipline Games Raises $750,000 More From Seattle Angels | So can we all agree that the future of gaming is mobile, and if you’re not building fun apps for your game studio, you’re missing out on a huge potential audience and huge monetization opportunity? If there’s any lesson from the success of ... |
| May 4, 2012 | How six Lolapps developers saved their last big game, Ravenshire Castle | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Ravenshire Castle is launching today on Facebook. It is the final chapter in the Raven World series created by a team of developers at ... |
| Apr 30, 2012 | Why Casual Games Won’t Kill Hard-Core Gaming | Mass Effect. Grand Theft Auto. Halo. Farmville?
The gaming industry has long been dominated by franchises with hardware-crushing graphics, hundreds of hours of tightly scripted gameplay, and multiyear development budgets of $50 million or m... |
| Mar 19, 2012 | 6L cuts its development team as it focuses on third-party game publishing | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
6L, the social-gaming company formerly known as 6waves Lolapps, said today that it has laid off much of its development staff.
Instead ... |
| Mar 19, 2012 | 6waves Lolapps Sheds Most Of Its Development Team To Focus on Publishing Games | 6waves Lolapps, the social gaming company that was formed out of a merger just half a year ago, shed most of its employees on the development side today to focus on publishing other studios’ titles.
The decision today seems to undo some of ... |
| Mar 5, 2012 | 6L teams up with 16 mobile game developers and plans big marketing spend per title | 6L, the social game company formerly known as 6waves Lolapps,is shifting its weight toward mobile games. The company has signed up 16 new independent developers as third-party partners and it plans to spend as much as $100,000 to market eac... |
| Mar 5, 2012 | 6L teams up with 16 mobile game developers and plans big marketing spend per title | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
6L, the social game company formerly known as 6waves Lolapps,is shifting its weight toward mobile games. The company has signed up 16 n... |
| Jan 18, 2012 | 6waves Lolapps acquires mobile game maker Escalation Studios | 6waves Lolapps said today it has acquired Dallas-based mobile game maker Escalation Studios. The move is part of a concerted effort by the social game publisher to get big in mobile. Terms of the deal were not announced.
San Francisco-based... |
| Jan 18, 2012 | 6waves Lolapps acquires mobile game maker Escalation Studios | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
6waves Lolapps said today it has acquired Dallas-based mobile game maker Escalation Studios. The move is part of a concerted effort by ... |
| Dec 21, 2011 | 6waves Lolapps’ first mobile game Yeti Town shoots to the top of the charts | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Just in time for Winter, a Yeti game has sprung to the top of Apple’s most downloaded iOS games chart. 6waves Lolapps published its fir... |
| Oct 28, 2011 | 6Waves Lolapps Acquires Chinese Social Gaming Company Smartron5 | Social and mobile game developer 6waves Lolapps has acquired Beijing-based social gaming company Smartron5. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Smartron5, which is backed by Origo Partners, has been developing social games with ... |
| Oct 24, 2011 | The Hackathon: Your Ticket To Disrupt Beijing, Great Prizes, And More | Hackers, are you ready? The Disrupt Beijing Hackathon is almost here. Not only is this our fifth time hosting the Hackathon at TechCrunch Disrupt, but it is our very first time hosting it overseas. The Hackathon has become an incredibly pop... |
| Oct 7, 2011 | 6waves Lolapps launches Ravenskye City social game (exclusive) | Hoping to extend a social game franchise, 6waves Lolapps is launching its new Ravenskye City game today.
The game is an expansion of the existing Raven series of games that have been a major hit for 6waves Lolapps. If it takes off, then 6wa... |
| Oct 7, 2011 | 6waves Lolapps launches Ravenskye City social game (exclusive) | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Hoping to extend a social game franchise, 6waves Lolapps is launching its new Ravenskye City game today.
The game is an expansion of th... |
| Sep 21, 2011 | 6waves Lolapps launches $10M fund for social and mobile game developers | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
The Gold Rush for talented app makers continues. ... |
| Sep 21, 2011 | Ning, Rearden, Adchemy, ArcSoft & More: The Bay Area Deals Roundup, By the Numbers | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
The venture funding and merger & acquisition news flies so fast in Silicon Valley that we have a bit of trouble keeping up, to be frank. We’re experimenting with different... |
| Sep 21, 2011 | 6waves Lolapps launches $10M fund for social and mobile game developers | The Gold Rush for talented app makers continues. 6waves Lolapps is announcing it has created a $10 million fund to invest in mobile and social game developers. The so-called 6L Fund will help the company find talented developers, fund their... |
| Sep 21, 2011 | 6waves Lolapps Launches $10M Fund | 6waves Lolapps, a global developer and publisher of social games, has launched a $10m fund.
The 6L Fund will focus on investing in mobile and social game developers. Participants will also gain access to 6waves Lolapps’ suite of publishing ... |
| Aug 5, 2011 | 6waves Lolapps Raise $35M | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
6waves Lolapps—the entity formed from the July merger of San Francisco-based social game developer Lolapps and Hong Kong-based game publisher Six Waves—has raised $35 million ... |
| Aug 4, 2011 | 6waves Lolapps Receives Equity Investment | 6waves Lolapps, a recently formed group between a merger of global social games publisher Six Waves Inc. and social game developer Lolapps, has received an equity investment of undisclosed amount.
Investors included worldwide leader in micr... |
| Aug 1, 2011 | 6Waves raises $35 million post-Lolapps merger | Insight Venture Partners is the primary participant, based on SEC filing
Social games publisher 6Waves has raised $35 million in new funding, according to this SEC filing published Monday. Listed on the filing are two representatives from I... |
| Jul 18, 2011 | Social Gaming Startup Lolapps Merges With Publisher 6Waves | Social gaming companies Lolapps and 6waves have agreed to merge operations to create a larger network of social gaming applications on Facebook and the web. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Together, Lolapps and Hong Kong-bas... |
| Jul 18, 2011 | Lolapps merges with 6waves to build social gaming powerhouse | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Two leading social game companies — 6waves and Lolapps — are merging today in order to form a more powerful challenger to market leader... |
| Jul 18, 2011 | Lolapps merges with 6waves to build social gaming powerhouse | Two leading social game companies — 6waves and Lolapps — are merging today in order to form a more powerful challenger to market leaders such as Zynga and Electronic Arts.
It’s a sign of the inevitable consolidation in social games, where t... |
| Dec 17, 2010 | An old video game fad returns? Celebrities want to cash in on Facebook games | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Zynga teamed up with recording artist Dr. Dre today to debut his new music video in its Facebook game Mafia Wars. And Facebook game pub... |
| Dec 17, 2010 | An old video game fad returns? Celebrities want to cash in on Facebook games | Zynga teamed up with recording artist Dr. Dre today to debut his new music video in its Facebook game Mafia Wars. And Facebook game publisher 6waves and TV production firm Endemol USA teamed up to produce a game around basketball icon Kobe ... |
| Aug 4, 2010 | India goes for Facebook games with Zapak-6waves deal | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
India’s largest online game portal, Zapak, announced today that it is partnering with 6waves to move into social games on Facebook.
Mum... |
| Jan 21, 2010 | Hong Kong’s 6 Waves raises $17.5M for Facebook games | 6 Waves has shown that new entrants can still break into the Facebook apps market. And because of that, the Hong Kong company has been able to raise $17.5 million in a round of funding from Insight Venture Partners.
The company has more tha... |
| Jan 21, 2010 | Hong Kong’s 6 Waves raises $17.5M for Facebook games | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
6 Waves has shown that new entrants can still break into the Facebook apps market. And because of that, the Hong Kong company has been ... |
| Jan 21, 2010 | 6 waves Receives $17.5m investment from Insight Venture Partners | Six Waves Inc., a Hong Kong-based publisher and developer of gaming applications on the Facebook platform, raised $17.5m in equity financing.
The investment was made by Insight Venture Partners.
The capital infusion will be used to build in... |
| Jan 21, 2010 | 6 Waves scores $17.5 million | As more money gets poured into social gaming, the race for Facebook dominance isn't over
6 Waves, a social gaming company which builds apps for Facebook, has raised $17.5 million from Insight Venture Partners. The Hong Kong-based company sa... |
| Nov 30, 2009 | Serious Business looks for life beyond Friends For Sale! | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Friends For Sale!, the game where people can “buy” other people as if they are pets, has had tremendous staying power as a popular app ... |
| Nov 30, 2009 | Serious Business looks for life beyond Friends For Sale! | Friends For Sale!, the game where people can “buy” other people as if they are pets, has had tremendous staying power as a popular app on Facebook.
Launched in November 2007, the social game has attracted more than 25 million registered use... |
| Nov 19, 2009 | Four New Approaches to Mobile Payment | It’s official, money transfer and mobile payment are among the most popular and lucrative mobile applications. In a report released earlier this week, Gartner identified the top 10 consumer mobile applications based on revenue, loyalty, con... |
