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| Feb 25, 2014 | The top 25 mobile advertising ecosystems beyond Facebook (report) | This is what happens when you ban a mobile advertising company from Facebook.
Peter Hamilton, the mobile ad executive dumped by Facebook after violating data storage agreements, has released a marketing report of the top 25 other companies ... |
| Feb 18, 2014 | Burned marketing partner makes overtures to Facebook, but this relationship may be toast | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
If you hear howling, look no further than the doghouse, current residence of HasOffers.
The chastened chief executive of this advertisi... |
| Feb 13, 2014 | Banished marketing CEO to Facebook: ‘We deserve a second chance’ | 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!
HasOffers chief Peter Hamilton has a message for ... |
| Feb 12, 2014 | Updated: Facebook drops mobile ad partners HasOffers and Kontagent for holding on to user data too long | Updated 2/13/2014: Added Playhaven/Kontagent comment.
Corrected 2/13/2014: HasOffers provides mobile analytics to its customers, but does not do monetization or sell advertising on its own. Also, we’ve removed a hypothetical example of how ... |
| Feb 12, 2014 | Updated: Facebook drops mobile ad partners HasOffers and Kontagent for holding on to user data too long | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Updated 2/13/2014: Added Playhaven/Kontagent comment.
Corrected 2/13/2014: HasOffers provides mobile analytics to its customers, but do... |
| Jan 13, 2014 | Mobile analytics firm Kontagent raises $5M, gears up for merger with PlayHaven | 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!
Mobile analytics firm Kontagent has secured $4.8 ... |
| Jan 13, 2014 | Funding Daily: January 13, 2014 | 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!
Here are today’s tech funding stories.
VCs raise ... |
| Dec 11, 2013 | Monetization meets analytics as PlayHaven merges with Kontagent | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
In a sign of consolidation for the middlemen of the game business, mobile monetization firm PlayHaven is merging today with analytics f... |
| Dec 11, 2013 | A Merger In Gaming Services: Playhaven, Kontagent Combine In An All-Stock Deal Worth “Hundreds of Millions” | Consolidation ahoy!
Playhaven and Kontagent, two of the bigger gaming services companies that help developers run analytics and retain their players, have decided to merge into a combined company worth “hundreds of millions” of dollars in a... |
| Oct 30, 2013 | The mobile app ‘dating game’: You’ve only got one chance to make a first impression | This sponsored post is produced by Kontagent.
Each month, tens of thousands of mobile apps compete for consumer mind and wallet share. But let’s face it: In the mobile app “dating game,” there are almost as many one-night stands as there ar... |
| Jul 10, 2013 | Why ex-Xbox boss Don Mattrick may be Zynga’s savior | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Josh Williams is chief science officer and president of Kontagent.
By now you’ve already heard the news about Zynga. In the latest turn... |
| Jun 19, 2013 | Creating the perfect customer experience starts and ends with mobile | This sponsored post is produced by Jeff Tseng, the CEO and cofounder of Kontagent.
Think about your best interactions as a customer. What made those experiences so great? Was it the consistency? The way the business knew what you needed wit... |
| Apr 12, 2013 | How to combat online advertising fraud | This is guest post by Francisco Diaz-Mitoma Jr., the CEO of VIRURL.
During the past few months, digital ad companies have been forced to take a hard look in the mirror. Reports from several security companies have pegged that online adverti... |
| Apr 12, 2013 | Mobile businesses: Are your eyes bigger than your stomach? | This sponsored post is produce by Kontagent.
When it comes to mobile, a lot of companies are biting off more than they can chew.
That’s according to the findings of the “2013 Mobile Strategy and Sophistication Study,” report we’ve just rece... |
| Apr 12, 2013 | How to combat online advertising fraud | 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!
This is guest post by Francisco Diaz-Mitoma Jr., ... |
| Feb 21, 2013 | Game Analytics Opens To The Game Developing Masses, Raises $2.5M From Sunstone Capital, CrunchFund, And Others | These days it seems like everyone and their cousin is trying to craft the next smash hit game, but simply bringing a concept to fruition isn’t enough. It’s got to be engaging and well-designed, and that’s exactly what Game Analytics wants t... |
| Dec 20, 2012 | Kontagent Puts Its App Analytics On The iPhone, iPad For Exec Clients | Kontagent, an analytics provider that specializes in mobile and social gaming, just put out iPhone and iPad apps to cater to executives on the go. They found that many studio heads wanted to check basic, key performance indicators continuou... |
| Jul 25, 2012 | Activision taps Swrve for mobile game analytics and A/B testing | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Activision Blizzard is taking mobile games as seriously as major console titles, and it’s proving that today by licensing Swrve’s techn... |
| Jul 25, 2012 | Activision taps Swrve for mobile game analytics and A/B testing | Activision Blizzard is taking mobile games as seriously as major console titles, and it’s proving that today by licensing Swrve’s technology for analytics and A/B testing for mobile apps.
Activision has already integrated Swrve’s technology... |
| Jul 11, 2012 | Mobile industry bigwigs Tapjoy and Kontagent form partnership (exclusive) | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
It’s the Ross and Rachel of mobile partnerships.
Tapjoy, an advertising and monetization platform for mobile devices, is partnering wit... |
| Apr 5, 2012 | Kontagent launches its kSuite DataMine analytics tool for monetizing mobile games | Kontagent is one of the companies that is rich with big data as it provides analytics services to more than 1,000 social and mobile apps with more than 150 million users. As such, it has been able to learn a lot about how to make money from... |
| Apr 5, 2012 | Kontagent launches its kSuite DataMine analytics tool for monetizing mobile games | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Kontagent is one of the companies that is rich with big data as it provides analytics services to more than 1,000 social and mobile app... |
| Mar 27, 2012 | Apsalar Lets You Customize Your Mobile App For Users Based On Their Behavior | Apsalar, a San Francisco-based mobile analytics startup, is giving developers more precision in how they target their users.
The company is launching something called “Advanced User Segments” today. In plain English, that means that develop... |
| Mar 5, 2012 | App Analytics Startup Kontagent Grew 500 Percent Last Year | Kontagent, a startup offering analytics for Facebook, mobile, and Web apps, says that its annual revenue grew 500 percent in 2011, to “just under $10 million.”
The company’s kSuite tools allow developers to track virality, engagement, reten... |
| Nov 15, 2011 | Facecash, Vyatta, Ginzametrics: Bay Area Biztech by the Numbers | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Time for our irregularly scheduled, data-driven roundup of news from the Bay Area technology world, starting with three separate $25 million items:
$25 million—The amount rais... |
| Nov 10, 2011 | Kontagent Closes $12 M |
Enterprise user analytics company, announced that it has closed $12 million in Series B financing. The investment was led by Battery Ventures, with continued participation from Maverick Capital and Altos Ventures.
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| Nov 10, 2011 | Social App Analytics Platform Kontagent Raises $12M From Battery Ventures And Others | Kontagent, an fbFund winner and social analytics platform has raised $12 million in Series B funding led by Battery Ventures, with Maverick Capital and Altos Ventures participating. To date, Kontagent has raised $18 million in funding.
As w... |
| Nov 10, 2011 | Kontagent snags $12M for social app analytics | The company gets support from Battery Ventures, Maverick Capital, and Altos Ventures
Social app analytics startup Kontagent announced Thursday that it has raised $12 million in a Series B round led by Battery Ventures, with participation fr... |
| Nov 10, 2011 | Kontagent raises $12M to expand social analytics into mobile | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Kontagent said today it has raised $12 million in a second round of funding to expand its social analytics business into mobile markets... |
| Nov 10, 2011 | Kontagent Closes $12M Series B Financing | Kontagent, a San Francisco, CA-based enterprise user analytics company, has closed $12m in Series B financing.
The round was led by Battery Ventures, with continued participation from Maverick Capital and Altos Ventures.
The company intends... |
| Aug 16, 2011 | Analytics Platform Kontagent Now Tracking 150M Users; $1 Of Every $4 Spent In Social Gaming | It seems that every day another company in the tech industry hits an important milestone, but the one achieved today by Kontagent, the social analytics platform for app developers, is pretty impressive. The fbFund winner is now tracking ove... |
| Jul 13, 2011 | Kontagent brings social gaming analytics to mobile devices (exclusive) | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Social gaming analytics provider Kontagent is bringing its analytics tools to mobile apps, the company announced Wednesday.
It’s typica... |
| Jul 12, 2011 | Kontagent Expands Beyond Facebook To Offer Analytics To Web And Mobile Apps | For the past few years, Kontagent, an fbFund winner and social analytics platform, has offered user analytics for developers of Facebook apps and games. Today, the company is moving beyond the social network to web and mobile apps that have... |
| Jun 22, 2011 | GameAnalytics.com: The Name Says It All | It’s no secret that game companies like Zynga have many of their mechanics — be it the initial walkthrough or payment process — down to a science. But for the so-called “long tail” of developers, finding or building the requisite tools is f... |
| Feb 28, 2011 | Kontagent Adds Real Time Monitoring To Facebook Analytics Platform | Kontagent, an fbFund winner and social analytics platform, is adding real time functionality to its social application monitoring system.
Kontagent’s platform gives Facebook app developers, game studios and publishers detailed data of demog... |
| Feb 10, 2011 | With the social game flood, Kontagent’s analytics track 100 million users | Kontagent, which makes software to help social app makers make sense of user behavior, is announcing today that its analytics tools are tracking more than 100 million users in social games. That’s triple the number from a year ago.
Albert L... |
| Feb 10, 2011 | With the social game flood, Kontagent’s analytics track 100 million users | 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!
Kontagent, which makes software to help social ap... |
| Feb 10, 2011 | Facebook Analytics Platform Kontagent Now Tracking 100M Users; 15B Messages Per Month | Kontagent, an fbFund winner and social analytics platform, has hit a milestone today. The startup is now tracking over 100 million monthly active users and over 15 billion messages per month. That’s up from 70 million monthly active users i... |
| Oct 12, 2010 | Kontagent Unleashes New Version Of Facebook Analytics Platform | Kontagent, an fbFund winner and social analytics platform, is launching a new version of its social analytics suite, complete with social funnels, social event tracking and other features. Kontagent is now tracking over 70 million monthly a... |
| Oct 12, 2010 | Kontagent game-analytics to help small developers take on social game leaders | 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!
Can Kontagent help David topple Goliath through b... |
| Oct 12, 2010 | Kontagent game-analytics to help small developers take on social game leaders | Can Kontagent help David topple Goliath through better analytics?
Social game companies such as Zynga consider their analytics — the data they collect about user activity in their apps — to be a competitive advantage. They can take the data... |
| Oct 12, 2010 | What you need to know - Tuesday 12/10/10 | Ngmoco buys DeNA for $400 million; SundaySky raises $9M; Ozura World gets $30M
Its official, DeNA acquired ngmoco. The deal, which has been rumored for some time, is that the company will spend $300 million in cash and securities. If the co... |
| Jul 2, 2010 | Funding roundup - week ending 07/02/10 | Two mobile geo-location startups, Foursquare and Geodelic, raise big money
Last week's roundup was clearly dominated by one sector growing by leaps and bounds: social gaming. The news on that front has not slowed down, as evidenced by Disne... |
| Jul 1, 2010 | Mixpanel's Analytics Now Tracking 1 Billion Actions A Month | Mixpanel, an analytics-focused startup whose backers include Y Combinator, Michael Birch, and Max Levchin, has hit a big milestone: it’s now processing over 1 billion actions per month. To put that in perspective, a year ago the company had... |
| Jun 30, 2010 | Kontagent raises $4M for Facebook analytics | Viral analytics platform for social network application developers gets a new boost of funds
Kontagent, a viral analytics platform for social network application developers, has raised over $4 million in a funding round by Altos Ventures an... |
| Jun 30, 2010 | Kontagent Raises Over $4M | Kontagent, a San Francisco, CA-based social web analytics company, has raised over $4m as part of its latest round of funding.
The investment, which was led by Altos Ventures and Maverick Capital, with participation from Larry Braitman, co-... |
| Jun 29, 2010 | Kontagent Raises $4.5 Million For Facebook Analytics Platform | Only a few months after the company raised $1 million in funding, Kontagent, an fbFund winner and social analytics platform, has raised $4.5 million in new funding. We’ve confirmed the funding with Kontagent’s co-founder, Albert Lai. The ro... |
| Jun 29, 2010 | Facebook analytics company Kontagent grabs $5.9M | Update
Kontagent, a company that provides Facebook application analytics, is raising a $5.9 million first round of funding according to a recently filed SEC form. Co-founder Albert Lai confirmed the funding.
Kontagent has developed an analy... |
| Jun 29, 2010 | Facebook analytics company Kontagent grabs $5.9M | 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!
Update
Kontagent, a company that provides Faceboo... |
| Apr 9, 2010 | Kontagent gets 50M users for Facebook analytics tool, raises $1.25M | Kontagent is announcing today that its Facebook viral analytics tool is being used by companies with 50 million users on the social network. It also says it has raised $1.25 million in both institutional and angel funding.
The San Francisco... |
| Apr 9, 2010 | Kontagent Raises $1 Million For Facebook Analytics Platform | Kontagent, an fbFund winner and social analytics platform has raised $1 million from a number of angel investors, including Jameson Hsu, co-founder/CEO of Mochimedia; Greg Thomson, founder of TallTreeGames and creator of YoVille (Acquired b... |
| Mar 17, 2010 | The Death of the Pageview | The Web has hit a point where tracking pageviews is useless for startups.
There was a time when all you needed to succeed on the Internet were lots and lots of eyeballs, and the best way of measuring those eyeballs was by tracking pageviews... |
| Jun 18, 2009 | Offerpal adds analytics service to help game developers make money | Offerpal, a company best known for providing advertising offers within social games, is making its service a little bit more comprehensive today. It’s introducing an analytics tool that lets game developers track a variety of information ab... |
| May 15, 2009 | Naval Ravikant: Venture Hacker (RWS Interview) | With this interview, we are again branching out. Naval Ravikant is not a traditional VC. He is an angel investor, a serial entrepreneur, and he writes the very entertaining and informative Venture Hacks blog, a must-read for entrepreneurs. ... |
| Mar 25, 2009 | The metrics and levers of engagement | Get customers to see your service as the No. 1 source for a given category
I'll be presenting a talk at the Facebook Developer Garage SF Wednesday evening. You can learn more about the event here. It's hosted by Kontagent and sponsored by I... |
| Mar 19, 2009 | Kontagent brings analytics to Facebook Connect for the iPhone | Another piece of the Facebook developer ecosystem has arrived on the iPhone: Advanced analytics software made by Kontagent. Facebook developers moving to the iPhone, as well as existing iPhone developers, can now get the benefit of the comp... |
| Mar 19, 2009 | Kontagent Now Offers Uber Analytics For iPhone And Web Applications Using Facebook Connect | Kontagent, one of last year’s fbFund winners and social analytics platform, has launched measurement tools for iPhone and web applications with Facebook Connect support. Kontagent’s application integrates tightly with platforms such as Face... |
| Dec 9, 2008 | Facebook's fbFund Names Winners of $225,000 Grants | Facebook has just named the five winners of $225,000 cash grants from the second round of its fbFund, a joint venture between Facebook, Accel, and Founders Fund meant to cultivate and reward excellent applications on Facebook Platform. The ... |
| Aug 7, 2008 | Facebook offers more measurements for third-party applications | A number of companies offer ways for Facebook application developers to measure user traffic, advertising effectiveness, and other aspects necessary for building a successful application on Facebook, including Kontagent, Sometrics, Develope... |
| Aug 1, 2008 | Kontagent: Game-changing analytics software for social network applications | Social network analytics company Kontagent is a bit like a machine-tool inventor of the 1800s. Machine tools helped spur massive industrialization: Manufacturers could buy these tools instead of creating their own in order to build producti... |
| Jul 26, 2008 | Techcrunch August Capital Event Wrapup | Thank you to the nearly 1,100 people who flowed through the Quadras Conference Center for our Mobile Web Wars event and the party at August Capital immediately afterwards. We were able to donate $7,500 to Malaria No More, which will protect... |
| Jul 25, 2008 | Details For Tonight's 3rd Annual TechCrunch Meet-Up At August Capital | We look forward to seeing you tonight at the 3rd Annual August Capital Meet-Up (the pictures are from last year’s event). Details on the event are below. If you are attending, things kick off at 5:30, right after the Mobile Wars round table... |
| Jul 23, 2008 | Kontagent Offers Deep Analytics For Facebook Applications | Kontagent is an application that integrates tightly with platforms such as Facebook to offer widget and application developers a high level of analytics data. Current analytics packages for social network applications or widgets offer nothi... |