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| Nov 15, 2016 | CrowdStar launches Design Home in pursuit of female mobile gamers | CrowdStar scored a rare and major hit with Covet Fashion, a mobile game geared toward women and fashion fans, four years ago. That game is still being played today, and now CrowdStar is launching another free-to-play title aimed at women: D... |
| Nov 15, 2016 | CrowdStar launches Design Home in pursuit of female mobile gamers | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
CrowdStar scored a rare and major hit with Covet Fashion, a mobile game geared toward women and fashion fans, four years ago. That game... |
| Nov 5, 2016 | M&A roundup - week ending 11/5/16 | Spotify acquired Preact; Intel bought VOKE and NAVinci; Broadcom purchased Brocade
Spotify acquired customer success company Preact. No financial terms of the deal were disclosed.
Preact will be shutting down. Registration is already disabl... |
| Dec 3, 2015 | CrowdStar’s Covet Fashion taps actress Emma Roberts to engage fashion fans | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
CrowdStar‘s Covet Fashion is a game where fashion fans can vote on their favorite virtual outfits and then purchase them in the real wo... |
| Feb 26, 2015 | CrowdStar is all-in on mobile gaming for women with Covet Fashion | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
CrowdStar chief executive Jeff Tseng is dressing better these days. And that’s no accident. His company’s game, a fashion-oriented titl... |
| Feb 26, 2015 | CrowdStar is all-in on mobile gaming for women with Covet Fashion | CrowdStar chief executive Jeff Tseng is dressing better these days. And that’s no accident. His company’s game, a fashion-oriented title for women called Covet Fashion, is all about changing real lives for the better.
CrowdStar launched Cov... |
| Jul 10, 2013 | CrowdStar enlists real brands for its Covet Fashion mobile game | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Targeting women as its main audience, CrowdStar is launching its Covet Fashion mobile game on the iPhone and iPad today.
The game blurs... |
| Jul 10, 2013 | CrowdStar enlists real brands for its Covet Fashion mobile game | Targeting women as its main audience, CrowdStar is launching its Covet Fashion mobile game on the iPhone and iPad today.
The game blurs the line between real-world shopping and fashion games since CrowdStar has formed alliances with existin... |
| Jun 25, 2013 | In A Shift, Crowdstar Launches A Lush Fashion App That’s More A Catalogue Than A Game | Crowdstar, the social and mobile gaming startup that made a name by targeting younger women with fashion-focused titles, is veering further away from pure gaming with a new app that’s more like an interactive clothing catalogue.
Called Cove... |
| Jun 1, 2013 | Crowdstar Picks Up An Extra $12M To Fuel Its Move Onto Tablets, Mobile | Crowdstar, the social and mobile gaming company that has built several fashion-focused titles, just picked up another $12 million from existing investors to bring two products to market later this year.
As you might expect, both are mobile ... |
| Dec 27, 2012 | How Canada has become America’s mobile app guinea pig | Doug Renert is a co-founding partner of Silicon Valley’s Tandem Capital.
Canada has many reasons to be proud.
For starters, the country has mostly dodged the economic crisis that continues to rattle the rest of North America. Canadian busin... |
| Dec 27, 2012 | How Canada has become America’s mobile app guinea pig | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Doug Renert is a co-founding partner of Silicon Valley’s Tandem Capital.
Canada has many reasons to be proud.
For starters, the country... |
| Oct 3, 2012 | Mobile gaming firm CrowdStar names co-founder as its chief executive | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Jeff Tseng, co-founder of CrowdStar, has been named as the chief executive of the mobile gaming company.
In an interview, Tseng said th... |
| May 15, 2012 | CrowdStar expands into China and South Korea with mobile game partners | CrowdStar is announcing today that it is partnering with China’s Tencent and South Korea’s Gamevil to expand its mobile gaming business into Asia.
Burlingame, Calif.-based CrowdStar recently scaled back its investments in Facebook games, bu... |
| May 15, 2012 | CrowdStar expands into China and South Korea with mobile game partners | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
CrowdStar is announcing today that it is partnering with China’s Tencent and South Korea’s Gamevil to expand its mobile gaming business... |
| May 2, 2012 | Crowdstar Raises $11.5M To Double Down On Mobile Gaming, Has Layoffs As It Leaves Facebook Behind | It’s a sign of the times. Crowdstar is through with making games for Facebook and the company has just raised another $11.5 million to double-down on their move toward mobile gaming. The company’s existing investors including Time Warner, I... |
| May 2, 2012 | CrowdStar raises $11.5M for mobile games but will lay off Facebook developers | CrowdStar, which is shifting from social to mobile games, has raised $11.5 million in a recent round of funding. At the same time, the company will lay off a couple dozen of its Facebook game developers.
These changes are a sign of the time... |
| May 2, 2012 | CrowdStar raises $11.5M for mobile games but will lay off Facebook developers | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
CrowdStar, which is shifting from social to mobile games, has raised $11.5 million in a recent round of funding. At the same time, the ... |
| Mar 16, 2012 | Peter Relan on how to get two iPhone games into the top 25 | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Peter Relan wants to build a mobile gaming empire, one app at a time. The chief executive of CrowdStar and chairman of game incubator Y... |
| Mar 16, 2012 | Peter Relan on how to get two iPhone games into the top 25 | Peter Relan wants to build a mobile gaming empire, one app at a time. The chief executive of CrowdStar and chairman of game incubator YouWeb has pivoted from Facebook games to mobile games in a big way. His company formed a mobile game stud... |
| Dec 20, 2011 | Interview: CrowdStar’s Peter Relan, On Building Social Games For Mobile (And Making Social Girl An iOS Hit) | CrowdStar, a social gaming company that got its start on Facebook, has been steadily pushing into mobile over the last year, with improving results. Today, it’s trying to drive that point home by announcing that its latest game, Social Girl... |
| Dec 20, 2011 | CrowdStar’s mobile game Social Girl snags a million downloads in a week | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
CrowdStar is turning out to be quite popular with the girls. The social gaming company proved that again this week with the launch of S... |
| Dec 1, 2011 | Amazon App Store snags an Android exclusive with CrowdStar’s Top Girl mobile game | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
CrowdStar‘s Top Girl mobile game is one of the top-grossing titles on Apple’s iOS platform. Now it is moving over to Google’s Android p... |
| Oct 21, 2011 | CrowdStar finally makes a game for hardcore strategy fans (er, dudes) | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
CrowdStar has built its reputation on Facebook by making casual games that appeal to females, from Happy Aquarium to It Girl. But the c... |
| Oct 20, 2011 | CrowdStar takes a stab at a global gaming audience | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Game maker CrowdStar is unveiling a new business strategy today to grow its game business into a multiplatform empire.
The new strategy... |
| Oct 20, 2011 | CrowdStar takes a stab at a global gaming audience | Game maker CrowdStar is unveiling a new business strategy today to grow its game business into a multiplatform empire.
The new strategy, which the company is calling “Project Trident” is a three-pronged approach to take a hit franchise and ... |
| Oct 20, 2011 | 'Project Trident' to take CrowdStar mobile, global | Gaming company to take three-pronged expansion in online and mobile platforms, and global markets
CrowdStar announced Thursday its three-pronged business strategy, called "Project Trident," enabling the company to broaden its reac... |
| Oct 10, 2011 | CrowdStar’s Starfund targets mobile game developers with $250K investments (exclusive) | CrowdStar‘s $10 million StarFund investment fund has made investments in six new mobile game startups for about $250,000 each.
The first fruits from that investment program will appear as mobile games in the near future, Jim Mills, a former... |
| Oct 10, 2011 | CrowdStar’s Starfund targets mobile game developers with $250K investments (exclusive) | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
CrowdStar‘s $10 million StarFund investment fund has made investments in six new mobile game startups for about $250,000 each.
The firs... |
| Aug 23, 2011 | OpenFeint And CrowdStar Incubator YouWeb Raises $2 Million | YouWeb, the social incubator behind OpenFeint, CrowdStar, Sibblingz and iSwifter, has raised another $2 million in funding from a number of angel investors including Dave Roux (the co-founder and chairman of Silver Lake Partners, Dave Whort... |
| Aug 23, 2011 | Social incubator YouWeb raises $2M | Technology company incubator YouWeb has spawned incredibly successful social and mobile game companies. Now the Burlingame, Calif.-based incubator has raised $2 million in funding for itself.
YouWeb is raising the money from existing invest... |
| Aug 23, 2011 | Social incubator YouWeb raises $2M | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Technology company incubator YouWeb has spawned incredibly successful social and mobile game companies. Now the Burlingame, Calif.-base... |
| Aug 5, 2011 | Social gaming firm CrowdStar moves into Russian market | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
CrowdStar is living up to its strategic expansion plan as it announces today that it will launch its hit game It Girl on three differen... |
| Jul 17, 2011 | CrowdStar Launches $10M Venture Capital Fund | CrowdStar, a Burlingame, CA-based developer of social games on Facebook and mobile, has launched a $10m venture capital fund that will invest in innovative game creators.
The StarFund will invest in developers providing up to $250,000 in fu... |
| Jul 15, 2011 | CrowdStar and YouWeb launch $10M fund to invest in mobile developers | CrowdStar and YouWeb have launched a $10 million fund to invest in mobile social game developers. The fund is an acknowledgement that game maker CrowdStar can’t make all of the best games itself.
It is also yet another sign that winning ove... |
| Jul 15, 2011 | CrowdStar and YouWeb launch $10M fund to invest in mobile developers | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
CrowdStar and YouWeb have launched a $10 million fund to invest in mobile social game developers. The fund is an acknowledgement that g... |
| Jul 15, 2011 | CrowdStar & YouWeb launch $10 million StarFund | Focused exclusively on the cross-section of three explosive industries: mobile, social and gaming
Social gaming company CrowdStar and YouWeb, its former incubator, have jointly launched a $10 million venture fund dedicated to investing in s... |
| Jun 27, 2011 | CrowdStar's New iOS Game Top Girl Sees One Million Downloads in 10 Days | Social gaming company CrowdStar has hit a milestone today, passing one million downloads of its recently launched iOS game Top Girl in 10 days.
Top Girl is a female-focused mobile role-playing game that allows players to create a fashionabl... |
| Jun 27, 2011 | Top Girl is top app in App Store | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Let’s see… what shall Top Girl wear to announce her game has surpassed one million downloads after only 10 days in the App Store?
Perha... |
| Jun 16, 2011 | Social game firm CrowdStar moves into mobile with Top Girl | Already a big player in Facebook games, social game maker CrowdStar is expanding into mobile today with the launch of an iPhone game called Top Girl.
The title is the first one built by CrowdStar’s new mobile game studio, headed by Blair Ha... |
| Jun 16, 2011 | Social game firm CrowdStar moves into mobile with Top Girl | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Already a big player in Facebook games, social game maker CrowdStar is expanding into mobile today with the launch of an iPhone game ca... |
| May 27, 2011 | CrowdStar Collects $23M | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Burlingame, CA-based CrowdStar has raised $23 million in first-round funding, a May 26 regulatory filing confirms. The social gaming company, known for Facebook games such as ... |
| May 24, 2011 | Intel Capital Unveils $24.5M in Investments | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Intel Capital, the venture investing wing of the giant Santa Clara, CA-based chipmaker Intel (NASDAQ: INTC), announced yesterday at an event in New York that it has invested $... |
| May 24, 2011 | CrowdStar Closes $23M First Round of Funding | CrowdStar, a Burlingame, CA-based developer of social games on Facebook and mobile, has closed its $23m first round of funding.
The round was co-led by Intel Capital, and Time Warner, with participation from China’s The9 and NVInvestments.
... |
| May 23, 2011 | Social game leader CrowdStar raises $23M | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Social game leader CrowdStar has raised $23 million in a first round of funding led by Intel Capital and Time Warner Investments. The c... |
| May 23, 2011 | Crowdstar raises first round, led by Intel | First round of capital for profitable social gaming startup: ready to overtake EA, Zynga next?
Intel Capital announced Monday that it has invested in social and mobile gaming studio Crowdstar. The venture arm actually invested a total of $2... |
| May 23, 2011 | Social game leader CrowdStar raises $23M | Social game leader CrowdStar has raised $23 million in a first round of funding led by Intel Capital and Time Warner Investments. The company plans to use the money to double its headcount and expand on a global scale.
The deal shows that s... |
| Feb 20, 2011 | Peter Relan On How CrowdStar Plans To Take On Zynga, EA And Playdom In 2011 | With 45 million monthly active users on Facebook, CrowdStar is now the second largest social gaming network behind Zynga (which has 275 million monthly active users). Second in line in the social gaming race isn’t bad for a startup that has... |
| Jan 14, 2011 | Peter Relan takes over as CEO of social game firm CrowdStar (exclusive) | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
There’s some shuffling in the management suite at CrowdStar, a social game company with 47 million monthly active users on Facebook.
Ni... |
| Jan 14, 2011 | Peter Relan takes over as CEO of social game firm CrowdStar (exclusive) | There’s some shuffling in the management suite at CrowdStar, a social game company with 47 million monthly active users on Facebook.
Niren Hiro is stepping down as chief executive after less than a year in the job. Executive Chairman Peter ... |
| Nov 15, 2010 | Microsoft moves into social games, allies with CrowdStar | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Hoping to become a bigger player in social games, Microsoft announced today it revamped its MSN Games casual online games web site and ... |
| Nov 15, 2010 | Not So Casual: Microsoft To Revitalize MSN Games, Live Messenger And Bing Games | Microsoft this morning announced several new efforts to gain some ground in the booming social/casual gaming market. The company will be debuting an all-new version of MSN Games (see preview here), bring new social games to instant messagin... |
| Nov 15, 2010 | Microsoft moves into social games, allies with CrowdStar | Hoping to become a bigger player in social games, Microsoft announced today it revamped its MSN Games casual online games web site and that it will team up with social game publisher CrowdStar, which has more than 50 million users on Facebo... |
| Nov 4, 2010 | Raising $3.5M, Rocket Ninja will blast onto Facebook with 3D games (exclusive) | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Social game maker Rocket Ninja is coming out of stealth mode today, showing it’s still possible to create social game startups even as ... |
| Nov 4, 2010 | Raising $3.5M, Rocket Ninja will blast onto Facebook with 3D games (exclusive) | Social game maker Rocket Ninja is coming out of stealth mode today, showing it’s still possible to create social game startups even as Zynga becomes dominant in the space with its Facebook games.
San Francisco-based Rocket Ninja has raised ... |
| Oct 18, 2010 | CrowdStar says It Girl social game is raking in the revenues | CrowdStar, a fast-growing social game company, believes it has created a next-generation Facebook game with its successful It Girl title. The game makes at least three times more money per player than any other game CrowdStar has released o... |
| Oct 18, 2010 | CrowdStar says It Girl social game is raking in the revenues | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
CrowdStar, a fast-growing social game company, believes it has created a next-generation Facebook game with its successful It Girl titl... |
| Oct 7, 2010 | CrowdStar gets big in Japan and hits No. 2 in Facebook apps | CrowdStar is in the midst of a growth spurt as it expands its presence in the Japanese social games market and keeps growing on Facebook.
The social game company today launched two games (Happy Aquarium and Happy Island) on Japan’s Yahoo Mo... |
| Oct 7, 2010 | CrowdStar gets big in Japan and hits No. 2 in Facebook apps | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
CrowdStar is in the midst of a growth spurt as it expands its presence in the Japanese social games market and keeps growing on Faceboo... |
| Sep 8, 2010 | Coming Oct. 18: DiscoveryBeat 2010 speakers to explain the secret recipe for getting content noticed | VentureBeat is gearing up for our second annual DiscoveryBeat 2010 conference and are pleased to announce our first speakers.
Our conference on Oct. 18 — expanded to a full day of proceedings — will highlight the evolving landscape of disco... |
| Sep 8, 2010 | Coming Oct. 18: DiscoveryBeat 2010 speakers to explain the secret recipe for getting content noticed | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
VentureBeat is gearing up for our second annual DiscoveryBeat 2010 conference and are pleased to announce our first speakers.
Our confe... |
| Sep 6, 2010 | LOLapps thrives as under-the-radar Facebook social game maker | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
You probably haven’t heard of LOLapps, the maker of social games on Facebook. But the company has quietly become one of the leaders of ... |
| Sep 6, 2010 | LOLapps thrives as under-the-radar Facebook social game maker | You probably haven’t heard of LOLapps, the maker of social games on Facebook. But the company has quietly become one of the leaders of the pack among hot social game companies that are still independent.
The San Francisco company has more t... |
| Aug 25, 2010 | Social game maker CrowdStar battles Zynga in Japan with Drecom deal | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Japan mobile social network market is becoming a new battleground where American social game companies will slug it out.
Social gaming ... |
| Jun 29, 2010 | Social game firm Crowdstar embraces Facebook Credits in five-year agreement | 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!
Crowdstar is giving a big endorsement to Facebook... |
| Jun 29, 2010 | Social game firm Crowdstar embraces Facebook Credits in five-year agreement | Crowdstar is giving a big endorsement to Facebook Credits. The social gaming company has made a five-year commitment to using Facebook’s virtual currency.
The introduction of Facebook Credits this summer is a big step for the social network... |
| May 17, 2010 | Hot social game firm Crowdstar hires AdMob executive as CEO (exclusive) | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
CrowdStar, the hot social gaming company, will announce Monday that it has hired AdMob executive Niren Hiro as its chief executive, Ven... |
| May 17, 2010 | Hot social game firm Crowdstar hires AdMob executive as CEO (exclusive) | CrowdStar, the hot social gaming company, will announce Monday that it has hired AdMob executive Niren Hiro as its chief executive, VentureBeat has learned.
Crowdstar is the creator of popular social games on Facebook such as Happy Aquarium... |
| Apr 2, 2010 | Aurora Feint Debuts Social Gaming App For The iPad | 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.
Un... |
| Mar 5, 2010 | Crowdstar launches rapid expansion to gain ground in Facebook games | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Crowdstar came out of nowhere last fall to become one of the biggest game publishers on Facebook. Now it plans on holding onto that pos... |
| Mar 5, 2010 | Crowdstar launches rapid expansion to gain ground in Facebook games | Crowdstar came out of nowhere last fall to become one of the biggest game publishers on Facebook. Now it plans on holding onto that position with a rapid expansion.
Jeff Tseng, co-founder of the Burlingame, Calif.-based startup, said in an ... |
| Feb 17, 2010 | OpenFeint X Debuts To Help Developers Create The Next FarmVille For The iPhone | Aurora Feint started out as a puzzle game developer for the iPhone platform but has since evolved into the maker of a comprehensive social gaming platform dubbed OpenFeint that continues to attract independent iPhone game developers to join... |
| Nov 16, 2009 | Crowdstar comes on strong in the social gaming scene | The social game companies are fashionable now that Electronic Arts bought Playfish for as much as $400 million. One of the newest challengers enjoying attention is Crowdstar International, which last week launched its second successful Face... |
| Nov 16, 2009 | Crowdstar comes on strong in the social gaming scene | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
The social game companies are fashionable now that Electronic Arts bought Playfish for as much as $400 million. One of the newest chall... |
