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| 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... |
| 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 | 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... |
| 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... |
| Jun 30, 2011 | Lolapps acquires a Flash game engine that makes Facebook games run fast | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Aiming to deliver better graphics in social games, Lolapps has acquired the Fliso graphics engine from Sean Cooper Games and hired its ... |
| Apr 20, 2011 | LOLapps launches Ravenstone Mine expansion for Facebook game | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
In February, LOLapps announced an expansion of its hit Facebook game Ravenwood Fair, called Ravenstone Mine. But just before the launch... |
| Apr 20, 2011 | LOLapps launches Ravenstone Mine expansion for Facebook game | In February, LOLapps announced an expansion of its hit Facebook game Ravenwood Fair, called Ravenstone Mine. But just before the launch date, the company decided to delay the release. Now Ravenstone Mine is launching today, for real.
The fi... |
| Mar 3, 2011 | Loot Drop banks on talented game designers as it takes on social gaming’s giants (exclusive) | Getting the best talent together is a good strategy in any market. Loot Drop, a new social game developer, is banking on that idea as it takes on the likes of Zynga, Disney, and Electronic Arts in Facebook games.
The San Mateo, Calif.-based... |
| Mar 3, 2011 | Loot Drop banks on talented game designers as it takes on social gaming’s giants (exclusive) | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Getting the best talent together is a good strategy in any market. Loot Drop, a new social game developer, is banking on that idea as i... |
| Feb 25, 2011 | Ravenwood Fair passes 10M users and keeps growing (exclusive) | The shelf life of a video game in stores is measured in days or weeks these days. But online, games can live — and grow sales — longer. LOLapps‘ Ravenwood Fair social game on Facebook is a good example. Launched on October 19, the game has ... |
| Feb 22, 2011 | LOLapps launches a novel expansion for Ravenwood Fair Facebook game | 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!
LOLapps has had a big hit with its social game Ra... |
| Feb 22, 2011 | LOLapps launches a novel expansion for Ravenwood Fair Facebook game | LOLapps has had a big hit with its social game Ravenwood Fair, which has grown to 10 million monthly active users since its launch in October. So the company has done what game publishers always do with a hit: launch an expansion game.
[Upd... |
| Dec 1, 2010 | LOLapps gives an inside look at the success of social game Ravenwood Fair | In a useful case study for Facebook developers, LOLapps is unveiling the stellar results it has gotten with Ravenwood Fair, a social game launched on Facebook on October 19.
In six weeks, the game has grown to 4.4 million users, according t... |
| Nov 3, 2010 | Following in FarmVille’s footsteps, LOLapps takes a game beyond Facebook | 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!
LOLapps got knocked for a loop last month when Fa... |
| Nov 3, 2010 | Following in FarmVille’s footsteps, LOLapps takes a game beyond Facebook | LOLapps got knocked for a loop last month when Facebook abruptly shut down all of the company’s apps, which collectively draw more than 100 million monthly active users. So perhaps its no surprise to see today that the company is moving bey... |
| Oct 19, 2010 | Creator of the fierce Doom and Quake games tries his hand at a cute Facebook app | John Romero is the creator of the Doom and Quake games that have haunted the memories of a generation of gamers with over-the-top shoot-em-up violence. Now he is trying his hand at making a cute Facebook game called Ravenwood Fair.
As a con... |
| Oct 19, 2010 | Creator of the fierce Doom and Quake games tries his hand at a cute Facebook app | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
John Romero is the creator of the Doom and Quake games that have haunted the memories of a generation of gamers with over-the-top shoot... |
| Oct 18, 2010 | LOLApps Back On Facebook After UID Issues | This weekend Facebook shut down some applications that were found by the WSJ to have been sharing Facebook User IDs (a unique profile identifier Facebook uses in its APIs) to independent ad networks and internet tracking services such as Ra... |
| Oct 18, 2010 | Facebook restores LOLapps apps after a two-day ban | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
After giving LOLapps the death penalty, Facebook is granting a reprieve. The social network allowed LOLapps to begin operating its apps... |
| Oct 18, 2010 | Facebook restores LOLapps apps after a two-day ban | After giving LOLapps the death penalty, Facebook is granting a reprieve. The social network allowed LOLapps to begin operating its apps on Facebook late Monday night after taking them down for a couple of days.
Facebook made all of LOLapps’... |
| Oct 16, 2010 | LOLapps games disappear from Facebook for violating terms of service | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
LOLapps is one of the biggest app makers on Facebook with more than 150 million users playing its games, quizzes, and gift apps every m... |
| Oct 16, 2010 | LOLapps games disappear from Facebook for violating terms of service | LOLapps is one of the biggest app makers on Facebook with more than 150 million users playing its games, quizzes, and gift apps every month. But in the past 24 hours, the company’s games have mysteriously disappeared from Facebook.
To those... |
| 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... |
| Jul 30, 2010 | Playdom commits to using Facebook Credits exclusively for five years | 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!
Playdom, the largest social gaming company on MyS... |
| Jul 30, 2010 | Playdom commits to using Facebook Credits exclusively for five years | Playdom, the largest social gaming company on MySpace and the third-largest on Facebook, has signed a five-year contract to exclusively use Facebook’s Credits as in-game currency across all of its titles, reports Inside Social Games.
The ne... |
| Apr 16, 2010 | Twitter developers: Don’t be scared, be smart | 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!
I just returned home from Chirp, Twitter’s develo... |
| Apr 16, 2010 | Twitter developers: Don’t be scared, be smart | I just returned home from Chirp, Twitter’s developer conference in San Francisco, where I had the chance to participate on a panel about investing in the Twitter ecosystem. Between the panel, the rest of the conference, and some 1:1 convers... |
| Aug 2, 2009 | Polaris Ventures Makes A Hire To Bolster Its Dog Patch Labs | Dog Patch Labs is the name of Polaris Ventures‘ San Francisco-based startup incubator, that it launched a little over a year ago. So far, it has helped launch LOLapps and Thing Labs, the startup behind Brizzly, a new Twitter app that was fi... |
| May 8, 2009 | Facebook platform developers could see $500M in revenue this year | A growing number of game makers on Facebook are making money from virtual goods — from poker chips to virtual clothes that users can buy or earn while playing gaming applications with their friends on Facebook. The combined ecosystem of the... |
| Sep 7, 2008 | Roundup: MyHeritage raises funding, news feed psychology, Bell drops “basic research,” and more | Here’s the latest action:
Genealogy site MyHeritage raises $15 million — The Israel-based company has grown from 17 million to 25 million registered users over the past year. Investors include Index Ventures and Accel.
High-imaging satellit... |
