Pocket Gems Inc

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Name: Pocket Gems Inc
First reported Apr 08 2013 - Updated Apr 08 2013 - 1 reports
Publishing
Publishing

Dipping Deeper Into Publishing, Kabam Launches $50M Fund To Bring Japanese Games West

With Japan’s Puzzle & Dragons pulling in an astonishing $62 to 86 million in just the Japanese market last month, it’s no surprise that Western game developers are looking to cherry pick more hits to bring back to West. Kabam, which is on track ... [Published TechCrunch - Apr 08 2013]
First reported Apr 02 2013 - Updated Apr 02 2013 - 1 reports
Nanosolar Inc
Nanosolar Inc

The Daily Startup: Solar Manufacturers Plan Layoffs

Top stories in today’s VentureWire: Art by Mike Lucas Two solar manufacturing companies, Nanosolar and SoloPower, plan major layoffs this month in California, according to filings the companies made with state regulators. Nanosolar plans to let go ... [Published WSJ.com: Venture Capital Dispatch - Apr 02 2013]
First reported Mar 21 2013 - Updated Mar 21 2013 - 1 reports
iPhone
iPhone

Study: Higher resolution smartphone screens mean more in-app purchases

p> The results of the study discussed in this post seem obvious when you think about it, but at least there's some empirical data to back it the findings. A study conducted by Pocket Gems suggests that people whose smartphones (including iPhones) ... [Published The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) - Mar 21 2013]
First reported Mar 21 2013 - Updated Mar 21 2013 - 1 reports
iPad
iPad

Mobile Gamers With Better Phone Screens Spend More on In-App Purchases

Mobile game developers looking to climb the “Top Grossing” charts, take heed: The better your players’ phone screens are, the more they’re likely to spend on in-app purchases. At least that’s the conclusion of a new study run by mobile games studio ... [Published All Things Digital - Mar 21 2013]
First reported Mar 11 2013 - Updated Mar 11 2013 - 1 reports

Pocket Gems clears 100M game downloads and 150 employees (exclusive)

With more than 100 million downloads to date, Pocket Gems has made it into the top ranks of mobile game companies. The San Francisco-based mobile game publisher is only a few years old, but it has built itself up to more than 150 employees on ... [Published Venturebeat - Mar 11 2013]
First reported Mar 09 2013 - Updated Mar 09 2013 - 2 reports

With 26.5M Daily Users, Denmark’s Kiloo Pioneers New Ways of Producing Mobile Games

One of the sleeper hits on the charts over the last year has been a tiny game out of Denmark called Subway Surfers. It’s a runner game like Imangi’s Temple Run that has a character named Jake riding train tracks and dodging trains. That single title ... [Published TechCrunch - Mar 09 2013]
First reported Jan 18 2013 - Updated Jan 18 2013 - 2 reports
Walt Disney Company
Walt Disney Company

Another Former Zynga GM, Andy Kleinman, Lands At Scopely As Chief Business Officer

With mid- and senior-level managers trickling out of Zynga over the past year, other startups — both inside and outside of the gaming world — have become beneficiaries. Scopely , a Los Angeles-based startup that’s trying to build a mobile gaming ... [Published TechCrunch - Jan 18 2013]
First reported Jan 15 2013 - Updated Jan 16 2013 - 1 reports

The top iPhone and iPad apps on App Store

App Store Official Charts for the week ending Jan. 14, 2013:Top Paid iPhone Apps:1. Angry Birds Star Wars (Rovio Entertainment Ltd)2. WhatsApp Messenger (WhatsApp Inc.)3. Minecraft - Pocket Edition (Mojang)4. Scribblenauts Remix (Warner Bros.)5. Plague ... [Published Philadelphia Inquirer - Jan 15 2013]
First reported Jan 14 2013 - Updated Jan 14 2013 - 1 reports

Women In Video Games Look For A Seat At The Industry's Boys Table

By Malathi Nayak SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - When video game developer Brenda Brathwaite Romero started her career in the 1980s, she could count the number of female developers in the industry on one hand.Today, many "Women in Games" roundtables she attends ... [Published The Huffington Post | Full News Feed - Jan 14 2013]

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Bill Gross, CEO of UberMedia, comments: "We're excited to announce our partnership with TapSense. We look forward to using TapSense's great conversion tracking and analytics solution tool to help us improve the value of campaigns that run on UberMedia. The M3 Cloud platform combined with UberAds' optimization technology will allow our customers to maximize campaign performance."
TapSense's M3 Cloud Platform Crosses 10 Billion Events this Year, Aims for 50 Billion by Next Year [Published FinanzNachrichten.de - Jun 05 2013]
Pocket Gems found that "...the iPhone 5 monetizes nearly 4 times that of the older generation iPhone 3GS." Likewise, the study found that those using Android devices with high-resolution screens were "nearly 10 times as likely to make an in-app purchases"...
Study: Higher resolution smartphone screens mean more in-app purchases [Published The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) - Mar 21 2013]
"I've worked at other, different game companies and I've been on floors where it's only guys," Liu said. "Our aspiration is to create games that are mass market and accessible to all people, and having that representative base of employees helps us keep true to that."
Women In Video Games Look For A Seat At The Industry's Boys Table [Published The Huffington Post | Full News Feed - Jan 14 2013]

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Zynga's Wake: Does The Venture Model Make Sense... [Published TechCrunch - Jun 11 2013]
Zynga's Wake: Does The Venture Model Make Sense... [Published TechCrunch Europe - Jun 11 2013]
The Zen of Entrepreneurship [Published TechCrunch - Jun 08 2013]
The Zen of Entrepreneurship [Published TechCrunch - Jun 08 2013]
AdMob Founder Omar Hamoui Joins Sequoia Capital [Published TechCrunch - Jun 07 2013]
AdMob Founder Omar Hamoui Joins Sequoia Capital [Published TechCrunch - Jun 07 2013]
TapSense's M3 Cloud Platform Crosses 10 Billion... [Published FinanzNachrichten.de - Jun 05 2013]
Viddy Co-Founder Chris Ovitz Lands At Mobile Ga... [Published TechCrunch - May 01 2013]
GamesBeat weekly roundup: Supercell raises $130... [Published Venturebeat - Apr 19 2013]
Patent Troll Lodsys Attacks Another 10 iOS Deve... [Published Cult of Mac - Apr 08 2013]
Dipping Deeper Into Publishing, Kabam Launches ... [Published TechCrunch - Apr 08 2013]
The Daily Startup: Solar Manufacturers Plan Lay... [Published WSJ.com: Venture Capital Dispatch - Apr 02 2013]
Pocket Gems: The New Game You Might Be Playing Now [Published Bloomberg - YouTube - Mar 26 2013]
Study: Higher resolution smartphone screens mea... [Published The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) - Mar 21 2013]
Mobile Gamers With Better Phone Screens Spend M... [Published All Things Digital - Mar 21 2013]
Announcing our next round of Mobile Summit part... [Published Venturebeat - Mar 19 2013]
Pocket Gems clears 100M game downloads and 150 ... [Published Venturebeat - Mar 11 2013]
With 26.5M Daily Users, Denmark’s Kiloo Pioneer... [Published TechCrunch - Mar 09 2013]
With 26.5M Daily Users, Denmark’s Kiloo Pioneer... [Published TechCrunch Europe - Mar 09 2013]
Another Former Zynga GM, Andy Kleinman, Lands A... [Published TechCrunch - Jan 18 2013]
Another Former Zynga GM, Andy Kleinman, Lands A... [Published TechCrunch Europe - Jan 18 2013]
The top iPhone and iPad apps on App Store [Published Philadelphia Inquirer - Jan 15 2013]
Women In Video Games Look For A Seat At The Ind... [Published The Huffington Post | Full News Feed - Jan 14 2013]
Chartboost Raises $19 Million From Sequoia And ... [Published TechCrunch - Jan 08 2013]
Chartboost Raises $19 Million From Sequoia And ... [Published TechCrunch Europe - Jan 08 2013]
Chartboost raises $19m from Sequoia, TransLink ... [Published The Next Web - Jan 08 2013]
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Zynga's Wake: Does The Venture Model Make Sense... [Published TechCrunch - Jun 11 2013]
Just about eight weeks ago or so, I was on a call with Zynga’s COO David Ko following the company’s first quarter earnings report . Zynga was trying to manage expectations for the coming two quarters by saying it had paused its game slate to re-evaluate ...
Zynga's Wake: Does The Venture Model Make Sense... [Published TechCrunch Europe - Jun 11 2013]
Just about eight weeks ago or so, I was on a call with Zynga’s COO David Ko following the company’s first quarter earnings report . Zynga was trying to manage expectations for the coming two quarters by saying it had paused its game slate to re-evaluate ...
The Zen of Entrepreneurship [Published TechCrunch - Jun 08 2013]
Rizwan Virk is an entrepreneur, author, investor, and film-maker. He was co founder of Gameview Studios, maker of the popular Tap Fish mobile game, which was downloaded over 30 million times, and was an angel investor in Tapjoy , Pocket Gems , Funzio ...
The Zen of Entrepreneurship [Published TechCrunch - Jun 08 2013]
Rizwan Virk is an entrepreneur, author, investor, and film-maker. He was co founder of Gameview Studios, maker of the popular Tap Fish mobile game, which was downloaded over 30 million times, and was an angel investor in Tapjoy , Pocket Gems , Funzio ...
AdMob Founder Omar Hamoui Joins Sequoia Capital [Published TechCrunch - Jun 07 2013]
AdMob founder Omar Hamoui is joining Sequoia Capital , we’ve learned. Sequoia confirmed that Hamoui is joining the firm as an investment partner and will be starting in a few weeks.Hamoui’s mobile ad platform AdMob was sold to Google in 2009 for $750 ...
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Pocket Gems: The New Game You Might Be Playing Now [Published Bloomberg - YouTube - Mar 26 2013]
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