International Game Technology confirmed that it has reached a definitive agreement to acquire Double Down Interactive LLC, a leading online social gaming company and developer of the popular Facebook’s DoubleDown casino. DoubleDown Casino currently has 4.7 million monthly active users, up from 3.3 million it is having in October 2011. It is considered as world’s...
A professional life or a 9 to 5 life, you often think that where my social and love life gone. Do I have to just only work, work and work? Is this is really something I am looking for whole of my life. Wait; there is one dating website that is made for the professionals. Yes, there is, the name is Hitch.me. The site lets users browse through profiles of hundreds...
Zygna, social network game development company, announced that it hired Barry Cottle as EVP, Business and Corporate Development. Before joining Zynga, Barry works with Electronic Arts interactive where he works on the position of EVP and led the EA’s mobile, social and casual online games strategy. Zynga, already hired quite a few senior leaders out of its rival...
Google’s new social search feature, “Search Plus You World”, will potentially results in make it to face the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) over its integration of Google+ in its search. The EPIC group, Electronic Privacy Information Center, may be filling a complaint with U.S. FTC. Google introduced big changes to its search engine in the start if this...
Facebook, the world’s largest social networking website consisting of 800 million+ members, today made an announcement of its launch of comment box plugin for mobile. With facebook’s such move, it would be easier for media sites to engage more people across the web and the mobile devices. The comment box for mobile is the latest plugin add-on the company made...
Rumors all around are flying about the World’s largest social network “Facebook” going public this year with its upcoming IPO. The question here is how much the Facebook is worth about? According to Accounting Degree Online, the company’s projected valuation is of $100 billion breaks down into the people who all owe it. The IPO going to be the biggest of any tech company in history, as earlier only three companies was able to reach that mark – AT&T (in 2000), GM (in 2008) and VISA (in 2010). If Facebook raises $100 billion...
Twitter announced a new pilot program through which it will distributes verified account and public profile metadata to developers, media and content services, and consumer device manufacturers. Developers in the Twitter ecosystem can now work together with its first partner in the program – The Echo Nest, Gracenote and Rovi. These initial partners will scale the distribution of Twitter account data for integration in consumer-facing apps. The Echo Nest will connect Twitter Verified Accounts to its Rosetta Stone service to give developers...
With the next Olympics 2012 around the corner, the organizers restrict the volunteers for the use of social media during the games. The London Olympic 2012 is going to held from July 27 till August 12. Organizers are in the process to recruit around 70,000 volunteers for the games. The game committee announced on Friday that volunteers are not allowed to post locations, details, about their roles, details about athletes or other VIPs online through the social medium websites like Facebook and Twitter. Britain government is even providing...
Wits between the biggest search engine, Google and the biggest microblogging website, Twitter takes a new turn on Wednesday, when Google officially commented back on Twitter’s on its criticization that they day is “bad day for the internet”. Twitter on Tuesday (PST) fall out on Google for pushing its Google+ in search for its feature – Google, Search Plus...
Groupon announced its new way for getting more discounts on deals for the people, through Clicky, the Clickable Value Wheel. The wheel gives users the opportunity to potentially score a discount by simply spinning a wheel. The feature was designed in such a way to provide momentary distraction and meet the minimum threshold of amusement, required for users to share the wheel through social media channels, increasing its number of active customers virally. According to the company, the wheel is one of the potential marketing instruments....
