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| Apr 16, 2013 | How Digital Chocolate teamed with Betable to launch a real-money gambling game in the U.K. | In a partnership with Betable, mobile gaming firm Digital Chocolate is launching a social casino game that gives you the option of turning it into a real-money gambling game in the United Kingdom.
The move is Digital Chocolate’s first step ... |
| Apr 16, 2013 | How Digital Chocolate teamed with Betable to launch a real-money gambling game in the U.K. | 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!
In a partnership with Betable, mobile gaming firm... |
| Mar 28, 2013 | Hot Gaming Startup Supercell Is Closing A Round Above $100M At Valuation Around $800M | Supercell is a very quiet, humble mobile gaming company out of the very quiet and humble city of Helsinki, Finland. Unlike their brasher, Angry Birds-making brethren a 15-minute drive away in Espoo, they don’t like to talk much about anythi... |
| Dec 17, 2012 | Digital Chocolate launches web racing game exclusively on Spil Games | Digital Chocolate has designated its latest social racing game as an exclusive release on Spil Games, which has a collection of gaming sites with more than 200 million monthly active users combined.
Digital Chocolate is promoting Race Track... |
| Oct 31, 2012 | Startup News: NASA Images of Sandy Sold for Charity and Boxee Comes to a Walmart Near You | Fancy’s fanciest fan. (Photo: wikipedia.org)
Ceci N’est Pas Une Sandy The affordable-art-dealing website 20 x 200 is now selling a print of a NASA satellite image of Hurricane Sandy. All proceeds from the sale will go to the Red Cross to he... |
| May 31, 2012 | Game pioneer Trip Hawkins was forming a “rebel alliance” among indie game developers (exclusive) | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Trip Hawkins, who resigned on Sunday as chief executive of mobile and social game maker Digital Chocolate, was trying to form an allian... |
| May 29, 2012 | Gaming pioneer Trip Hawkins resigns from Digital Chocolate | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Trip Hawkins, a pioneer of video games, has resigned from Digital Chocolate, the mobile and social game company that he founded.
Hawkin... |
| May 27, 2012 | Digital Chocolate Downsizing? Founder Trip Hawkins Out As CEO; Reports Of Layoffs, Marc Metis As Interim CEO | Some significant changes afoot at social and mobile games company Digital Chocolate: founder Trip Hawkins has stepped down as the CEO of the company. And we have also heard a report — yet to be confirmed directly by the company — that presi... |
| Aug 15, 2011 | Digital Chocolate finds a sweet deal, gobbles up Sandlot Games | There’s been quite a bit of M&A activity in recent weeks in the casual gaming industry, highlighted by Electronic Arts’ blockbuster buy of PopCap Games. But now a smaller Seattle area gaming company has found a good match. Sandlot Games... |
| Aug 15, 2011 | Digital Chocolate Scoops Up Game Publisher Sandlot Games | Social gaming contender Digital Chocolate has just announced the acquisition of Sandlot Games. The Washington-based games publisher is responsible for titles such as Cake Mania and Super Granny and claims over 300 million downloads of its g... |
| Mar 27, 2011 | The IRS isn’t playing games with Trip Hawkins | Trip Hawkins, the chief executive of mobile gaming firm Digital Chocolate and founder of Electronic Arts, may be on the hook for $20 million in back taxes after a judge rejected his attempt to use personal bankruptcy to cancel the debt, acc... |
| Mar 27, 2011 | The IRS isn’t playing games with Trip Hawkins | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Trip Hawkins, the chief executive of mobile gaming firm Digital Chocolate and founder of Electronic Arts, may be on the hook for $20 mi... |
| Feb 22, 2011 | Digital Chocolate Closes $12M in Series D Financing | Digital Chocolate Inc., a San Mateo, CA-based social games publisher across different platforms, has closed $12m in Series D financing.
The round was led by Intel Capital, with participation from existing investors Sutter Hill Ventures and ... |
| Feb 22, 2011 | Social games maker Digital Chocolate raises $12M | Digital Chocolate, a developer of social games that appear on sites like Facebook, announced today that it has raised $12 million in its fourth round of funding from Intel Capital.
While social gaming is still dominated by the likes of Zyng... |
| Feb 22, 2011 | Intel Leads $12 Million Round In Game Developer Digital Chocolate | Game developer Digital Chocolate has just announced a $12 million Series D funding round led by Intel Capital, with prior investors Sutter Hill Ventures and Bridgescale Partners participating in the round. This brings the gaming company’s t... |
| Feb 22, 2011 | Digital Chocolate raises $12M in Series D | The company is backed by Intel Capital with help from existing investors
Social game developer Digital Chocolate announced Tuesday that it has secured $12 million in a Series D round of funding led by Intel Capital, with help from existing ... |
| Nov 24, 2010 | Zynga and Playdom settle 14-month-old suit | Settlement for undisclosed amount stops the lawyers, but not the confusion to game players
Zynga and Playdom settled Tuesday a 14-month lawsuit for alleged trade-secret theft. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Zynga sued Playdom in Sept... |
| Nov 18, 2010 | CityVille: Zynga still knows how to clone | Facebook's most successful gaming developer announces a city-building Ville
In Hello City (Crowdstar), you build a city. In Millionaire City (Digital Chocolate), you’re a rich businessperson that purchases land and constructs buildings, for... |
| Oct 6, 2010 | Following scandal, Offerpal changes name to Tapjoy | When a startup changes its name, there is something good about the new name and something bad about the old one. That’s the case with Offerpal Media, the social monetization company, which is changing its name to Tapjoy today.
Offerpal boug... |
| Oct 6, 2010 | Following scandal, Offerpal changes name to Tapjoy | 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!
When a startup changes its name, there is somethi... |
| Aug 26, 2010 | The Wars over Mafia Wars: Dissecting Digital Chocolate’s Case Against Zynga | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
If we all lived inside a digital game, Digital Chocolate might be sending a guy over to Zynga right about now to break a few kneecaps.
Fortunately, we live in a world of law a... |
| Aug 25, 2010 | Digital Chocolate sues Zynga over Mafia Wars | Claims the name game is intentional
(Updated with Zynga comment)
Zynga, the maker of one of the most popular Facebook games,Mafia Wars is being sued by Digital Chocolate, a mobile game company.
The court documents reveal that, Digital Choco... |
| Aug 25, 2010 | Digital Chocolate claims in Zynga lawsuit it owns Mafia Wars name | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Casual gaming company Digital Chocolate has sued social gaming market leader Zynga, alleging that Digital Chocolate has the exclusive r... |
| Aug 25, 2010 | Digital Chocolate claims in Zynga lawsuit it owns Mafia Wars name | Casual gaming company Digital Chocolate has sued social gaming market leader Zynga, alleging that Digital Chocolate has the exclusive rights to the name Mafia Wars.
Mafia Wars is one of Zynga’s biggest hits on Facebook, with more than 27.8 ... |
| Aug 25, 2010 | Games Developer Digital Chocolate Takes Zynga To Court Over 'Mafia Wars' Name | Digital Chocolate, a leading publisher of casual games for the iPhone (and a bunch of other mobile phones), the Web, Facebook and Xbox LIVE, has apparently filed suit against its high-profile rival Zynga.
We don’t have any details on the sp... |
| Apr 15, 2010 | Roundup: Demand Media preps for IPO, Gmail drags-and-drops | Here’s the latest action:
Reviled and closely-watched Demand Media enlists Goldman for an IPO: The Financial Times reported that the media company, which uses algorithms to study search patterns and automatically assign stories and which ma... |
| Mar 24, 2010 | Sixteen years in the making, Trip Hawkins’ latest game for Facebook is “best idea I’ve ever had” | Trip Hawkins, chief executive of Digital Chocolate, isn’t shy about describing his company’s latest Facebook game, NanoStar Castles. He first conceived the game, which you could summarize as Pokemon for grown-ups, more than 16 years ago. He... |
| Mar 24, 2010 | Sixteen years in the making, Trip Hawkins’ latest game for Facebook is “best idea I’ve ever had” | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Trip Hawkins, chief executive of Digital Chocolate, isn’t shy about describing his company’s latest Facebook game, NanoStar Castles. He... |
| Jul 8, 2009 | iPhone owners may be upgrading fast to 3.0 software | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
The developers of iPhone apps face tricky questions about when they should release applications that takes advantage of the latest soft... |
| Jul 8, 2009 | iPhone owners may be upgrading fast to 3.0 software | The developers of iPhone apps face tricky questions about when they should release applications that takes advantage of the latest software or hardware from Apple.
Trip Hawkins, chief executive of Digital Chocolate, says that iPhone owners ... |
| Jun 26, 2009 | Digital Chocolate rolls out three iPhone games in a day | It may have been late to the iPhone, but video game company Digital Chocolate is trying to make up for lost time. Today, it’s launching three new titles for the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch.
The games include 3D Rollercoaster Rush, Californi... |
| Dec 16, 2008 | Mochi Media’s top 10 most popular Flash games of 2008 | Mochi Media is in a unique place to measure the popularity of Flash-based web games. That’s because it measures usage and inserts ads into the most popular games in its network of more than 75 million monthly game players. Based on Mochi Me... |
| Mar 18, 2008 | iSkoot promises carrier-friendly VOIP | Mobile operators can no longer avoid the free voice calling that comes with voice-on-the-Internet (VOIP) protocol. They might as well embrace it. And the start-up iSkoot says it has a version of mobile VOIP service that could even make wire... |
| Aug 28, 2007 | The Return of Frankenphone | In 2003 Nokia launched the N-Gage, a taco-shaped video game and mobile phone hybrid. The device was so poorly designed that it got the nickname Frankenphone. The battery actually had to be removed to insert a game cartridge. To make a call,... |
| Aug 7, 2007 | Digital Chocolate Rolls out D Choc Café Series | This week Digital Chocolate announced the launch of their D Choc Café Series of casual games, and are currently available for AT&T, T-Mobile and 3, and in the coming weeks will be released for Alltel, Nokia (including the N-Game platfor... |
| Jul 24, 2007 | Digital Chocolate to Publish for N-Gage… Wait, the N-Gage is Still Around? | The surprise news isn’t that California based mobile game developer Digital Chocolate would publish titles for the N-Gage platform, but rather that the N-Gage was around. The hybrid gaming device, mobile phone launched what seems like ages ... |
| Jul 18, 2006 | Eight start-ups & tech ideas….the latest action | Bix, to offer online performance contests, raises $7 million — The start-up, previously known as 900 Seconds, wants to let companies (and others) tap into the American Idol craze — giving them a way to create their own performance competiti... |
| Nov 11, 2005 | Scott Sassa, and the “Kleiner Shuffle” | Scott Sassa, by nndb
The latest board changes at Silicon Valley game publishing company, Digital Chocolate, provides insight into the central role venture capital firms play here.
Last year, well-known venture firm Kleiner Perkins helped re... |
