| Date | Title | Description |
| 09.01.2016 | M&A roundup - week ending 1/9/16 | Apple bought Emotient; Intel purchased Ascending Technologies; Apple acquired Emotient
RNTS Media, the parent company of mobile advertising technology platform Fyber, completed itsdeal to acquire Heyzap, a provider of mobile advertising for... |
| 08.01.2016 | RNTS Media completes $45M acquisition of Heyzap | The combined company of Heyzap and Fyber will have 500M monthly active users
(Updated with comment from Jude Gomila)
RNTS Media, the parent company of mobile advertising technology platform Fyber, has completed its deal to acquire Heyzap, a... |
| 08.01.2016 | Fyber Acquires Heyzap for $45M | Rnts Media N.V., the parent company of Fyber GmbH, a Berlin, Germany-based mobile advertising technology platform, closed the acquisition of Heyzap Inc., a San Francisco, CA-based mobile advertising technology company, for up to $45m.
The d... |
| 07.01.2016 | RNTS Media Completes $45M Acquisition Of Mobile Ad Company Heyzap | The deal is done — Germany company RNTS Media says it has completed its acquisition of Heyzap.
The acquisition is worth up to $45 million, specifically $20 million in cash upfront, with cash and stock earn outs of $25 million. It was first ... |
| 26.12.2015 | M&A roundup - week ending 12/26/15 | Microsoft bought Talko; Kik acquired Blynk; Salesforce purchased SteelBrick
Kik, a Canadian mobile messaging app acquired fashion advice bot Blynk. No financial terms of the deal were disclosed.
Blynk, which calls itself "your free per... |
| 23.12.2015 | RNTS Media buys mobile ad network Heyzap for $45M | Heyzap, a provider of mobile advertising for app developers, has been acquired by RNTS Media in a move intended to beef up its own offering in the space. Initially, the deal is for $20 million, but also includes “potential earn-out payments... |
| 23.12.2015 | RNTS Media buys mobile ad network Heyzap for $45M | 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!
Heyzap, a provider of mobile advertising for app ... |
| 20.03.2015 | Kickpay Is A Marketplace For Invoices That Helps SMEs Get Paid Quickly | Cash flow is all important for small businesses — it’s the difference between life or death — so it is frustrating when customers don’t pay invoices up front. Nothing puts a strain on finances quite like waiting 30, 60 or 90 days for your m... |
| 23.10.2014 | Heyzap launches transparent mediation for mobile ad networks | Developers see the value in feeding a lot of different kinds of ads to people playing mobile games. But mobile ad networks don’t always have the developers’ interests at heart. So there has to be a way to ensure that the right ad is shown t... |
| 23.10.2014 | Heyzap launches transparent mediation for mobile ad networks | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Developers see the value in feeding a lot of different kinds of ads to people playing mobile games. But mobile ad networks don’t always... |
| 02.05.2014 | Heyzap Is Killing Its Standalone “Social Discovery” Apps For Gamers | Mobile ad network Heyzap is shutting down its standalone applications, company CEO Immad Akund confirmed to us. The iOS application, which previously served as something of an app discovery service for mobile gamers, is already gone from th... |
| 18.06.2013 | Homejoy Announces A Perks Program, So Companies Can Pay To Clean Their Employees’ Homes | As startups compete for the best talent, Homejoy is announcing a way for companies to offer employees an additional perk — a clean home.
Home cleanings may not be a standard perk yet, but they’re not an entirely new idea, either. Last fall,... |
| 16.04.2013 | Heyzap Launches An AppData-Like Leaderboard For Mobile Games With User Counts | While Apple’s app store and Google Play have long had leaderboards for the most downloaded and lucrative apps, there hasn’t been that much transparency around engagement after the download.
Heyzap, a Union Square Ventures-backed startup tha... |
| 22.03.2013 | Heyzap Introduces Ads To Its Mobile Gaming Network | Heyzap, a Y Combinator-incubated social platform for mobile games, is releasing a software development kit today allowing developers and publishers to introduce Heyzap ads to their games.
Basically, it’s turning Heyzap’s social network into... |
| 27.02.2013 | The PlayStation 4 is copying tablets, and I like it | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Above: Lead system architect Mark Cerny announces the design principles for PlayStation 4 at Sony’s kickoff event last week in New York... |
| 07.01.2013 |
HeyZap Raises $4.3M From Qualcomm, Others
| HeyZap, the developer of mobile applications used to connect people with social games and each other, has scored an investment from Qualcomm Ventures. According to a regulatory filing and multiple sources, HeyZap raised $4.3M in a funding r... |
| 05.01.2013 | Social gaming platform Heyzap raises $4.3 million | With Zynga on the ropes, there is a big opportunity in the social gaming space
(Updated to reflect comment from Heyzap)
Social gaming company Heyzap has raised $4.3 million, according to a regulatory filing with the Securities and Exchange ... |
| 04.01.2013 | Mobile Gaming Platform Heyzap Confirms $4.3M Round From Union Square And Qualcomm | Heyzap, which built a social platform for mobile games, has raised $4.3 million in Series B funding.
The round was revealed in a regulatory filing (first spotted by The Next Web). Co-founder Jude Gomila confirmed the news over email and sai... |
| 28.11.2012 | Heyzap debuts leaderboards to show who dominates mobile games among your friends | Heyzap has launched leaderboards, a much-needed feature to the company’s mobile platform, which started as a check-in service for games and is now evolving into something like a social network. This will pick up where OpenFeint, which is be... |
| 28.11.2012 | Heyzap Expands Its Mobile Gaming Platform With Leaderboards, Where You Can Challenge Other Players | Heyzap continues to build out its social platform with the addition of player leaderboards that developers can add to their mobile games.
Other companies have released their own leaderboard options, most notably OpenFeint — except that the ... |
| 15.10.2012 | Heyzap (YC W09) launches the easiest way for mobile gamers to play with their friends | Heyzap has convinced more than 8.5 million mobile gamers to download its social app for mobile games in the past year. Now, it will enable gamers to go a step further by making it easy for friends to play with each other.
Previously, playe... |
| 11.10.2012 | Heyzap launches a ‘play with friends’ feature for multiplayer mobile games | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Heyzap has convinced more than 8.5 million mobile gamers to download its social app for mobile games in the past year. Now, it will ena... |
| 11.10.2012 | Heyzap’s ‘Play With Friends’ Feature Connects You With Other Players In Any Mobile Multiplayer Game | Heyzap has added a cool new feature to its social platform for mobile games — the ability to actually start playing games with other users.
The app already allowed users to check-in to games that they were playing (either manually in the He... |
| 09.03.2012 | Fun Friday: Mobile Games | It's friday, time to talk about something fun. Today I thought I'd talk about mobile games.
I've never been much of a gamer. I reached adulthood just before videogames went mainstream. But I have found the "quick hit" aspect of mo... |
| 07.03.2012 | Heyzap Launches An API, Uses It To Build A Mobile Gaming Map | Heyzap, a startup that allows users to check in as they play their favorite mobile games, is now releasing its data through an API.
The API focuses on two types of information — games and players. Through the API, a developer can see which ... |
| 05.03.2012 | Heyzap’s Amazing 404 Page, Created In A Day | Gaming startup Heyzap has found a way to take some of the pain out of stumbling on a 404 error message on its website.
Now, Heyzap’s 404 page comes with a little bonus — a simple spaceship combat game, where you move your mouse to shoot off... |
| 20.01.2012 | Heyzap Announces Mobile Gaming Partners: PocketGems And More | Gaming startup Heyzap first launched its social discovery service for mobile games nearly a year ago. Now it’s unveiling the first list of partners who are using the service.
Some of these partnerships weren’t exactly a secret before — you ... |
| 20.01.2012 | Heyzap unveils 12 partners for its social discovery network for mobile games | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Heyzap, operator of a social mobile gaming network, has unveiled a list of 12 mobile gaming leaders that are partnering with it to prom... |
| 22.11.2011 | The top 10 Thanksgiving mobile games | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Heyzap has put together a list of the top 10 Thanksgiving-themed mobile games in case you want to get into the holiday spirit and downl... |
| 12.10.2011 | Heyzap creates game launcher for Android phones | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Heyzap has released version 3 of its game check-in app, adding functions that make it a lot easier for gamers to manage and launch thei... |
| 12.10.2011 | Heyzap creates game launcher for Android phones | Heyzap has released version 3 of its game check-in app, adding functions that make it a lot easier for gamers to manage and launch their games.
The Heyzap app for Android will include a new Play tab (pictured at right, bottom) that makes it... |
| 05.08.2011 | ‘Game For Kittens’ And HeyZap Team Up For A Good Cause | Here’s your chance to let your kitten help other animals, using nothing other than its feline reflexes.
You may be familiar with ‘Game for Kittens‘, an iPhone game developed by Little Hiccup that’s exactly what it sounds like: it’s a game f... |
| 20.07.2011 | Heyzap launches free personalized game recommendations on Android | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Heyzap is expanding its offerings as a mobile platform provider. At first, it enabled users to “check in” to their mobile games to tell... |
| 20.07.2011 | Heyzap Brings Location Awareness And Netflix-Style Recommendations To Mobile Games | Heyzap, the social discovery platform for mobile and online games, has been hard at work adding pieces to its mobile experience. The startup recently brought check-ins to its mobile platform, allowing users to check-in to their favorite gam... |
| 20.07.2011 | Heyzap launches free personalized game recommendations on Android | Heyzap is expanding its offerings as a mobile platform provider. At first, it enabled users to “check in” to their mobile games to tell their friends what they’re playing. Now the company is analyzing the check-in data to offer free recomme... |
| 30.06.2011 | Tictacti secures funding to take on Heyzap in game aggregation | A lot of companies would like to get on the flash games bandwagon but have no core competency to do it. Out of Israel is a new white label solution called Tictacti. The startup has also now raised a $500,000 round led by Kima Ventures and o... |
| 03.06.2011 | Heyzap Brings Social Discovery And Check-In For Games To The iPhone | Heyzap, a social discovery platform for mobile and online games, announced today that it’s zapping its way onto the iPhone just in time for WWDC 2011, Apple’s developer conference. The startup will be extending its fast-growing Android comm... |
| 03.06.2011 | Game check-in app Heyzap lands on iPhone | Heyzap, an online network that lets gamers “check in” to games, has finally launched an app for the iPhone.
Heyzap is a little unusual because it’s a popular check-in application for games that first launched on Android devices before ma... |
| 28.04.2011 | Heyzap scores 4.6M users in two months for mobile game check-ins | Heyzap launched a way for gamers to “check in” to mobile games on Android a couple of months ago and has already reached 4.6 million users.
A total of 72 games use Heyzap’s platform, which creates a social network on top of Android where us... |
| 28.04.2011 | Heyzap scores 4.6M users in two months for mobile game check-ins | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Heyzap launched a way for gamers to “check in” to mobile games on Android a couple of months ago and has already reached 4.6 million us... |
| 16.03.2011 | Heyzap lets users “check-in” to Android games | Shifting to the hot mobile market, social game platform firm Heyzap is launching a “check in” network for Android games.
With the network, users can check into the system and tell their friends what games they are playing at any given momen... |
| 16.03.2011 | HeyZap Goes After Social Discovery, Launches Check-in For Mobile Games | Heyzap, a monetization and distribution platform for online casual games, announced today that it’s going mobile. Launching a social discovery application for mobile games on Android, the startup will be bringing the 1.6 million users it ha... |
| 16.03.2011 | Heyzap lets users “check-in” to Android games | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Shifting to the hot mobile market, social game platform firm Heyzap is launching a “check in” network for Android games.
With the netwo... |
| 08.12.2010 | MindJolt Partners With BIM To Bring Games To 900 Local News Sites | MindJolt, the game distribution company that was acquired by MySpace founder and former CEO Chris DeWolfe earlier this year, has landed a big new parter: Broadcast Interactive Media (BIM).
That name probably doesn’t ring a bell, but BIM hel... |
| 29.11.2010 | MyYearbook Introduces Realtime Social Gaming With Video Chat | In general, the key driver of social networking so far is games on Facebook. But most of those games aren’t social in the way that playing Monopoly or cards with your friends and family over the holidays is social. MyYearbook, which is a sm... |
| 07.10.2010 | 33 ways to make your app a hit: VentureBeat’s Discovery Directory | As app stores multiply and the number of publicly released apps — just the ones we can see and count — approaches 1 million, content developers are having a hard time standing out from the crowd.
That process is known in the app world as di... |
| 28.09.2010 | Great Bus Dev Job In San Francisco | Our portfolio HeyZap brings games and game play to places on the web you don’t usually find them. They are a fast growing company based in San Francisco. And they are looking to make a key business development hire.
Here’s a blurb from the ... |
| 12.08.2010 | HeyZap Launches Support For HTML5 Games | HeyZap, a startup that offers game developers a distribution platform and a variety of social tools, is looking to stay ahead of the curve: the company, which has been focused exclusively on Flash games until now, is adding support for HTML... |
| 12.08.2010 | Online game distribution co. Heyzap launches HTML5 support | Online games platform company Heyzap is announcing today that its platform will support games that are written in HTML5, which is making a bid to be the lingua franca of the internet.
Until now, Heyzap has created an index and social games ... |
| 21.07.2010 | Heyzap Arcade delivers "games portal in a box" | Heyzap is launching a way to simplify that non-game companies can add games to their web sites with Heyzap Arcade.
The San Francisco company, which indexes Flash games on the web and helps developers make money from them, will provide the e... |
| 21.07.2010 | Heyzap Arcade delivers "games portal in a box" | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Heyzap is launching a way to simplify that non-game companies can add games to their web sites with Heyzap Arcade.
The San Francisco co... |
| 21.07.2010 | Heyzap Arcade Allows Publishers To Easily Add An Interactive Gaming Portal To Websites | Many publishers want to add social games to their sites but widgets aren’t customizable enough. And tapping into an API may be too complicated for less tech savvy publishers. Heyzap, a startup that distributes casual and social games across... |
| 24.06.2010 | Heyzap (W09) raises $3M round for social game platform expansion | Full article via games.venturebeat.com
Congrats Immad and Jude! |
| 23.06.2010 | HeyZap Lands Another $3 Million In Funding | HeyZap, a startup that distributes casual and social games across the web through a set of APIs, applications, and widgets, has closed another $3 million in funding from Union Square Ventures, with participation from Naval Ravikant (Hitforg... |
| 23.06.2010 | Heyzap raises $3M round for social game platform expansion | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Heyzap has raised $3 million to beef up its platform and help Facebook game developers port their games to other web sites.
The investo... |
| 23.06.2010 | Heyzap raises $3M round for social game platform expansion | Heyzap has raised $3 million to beef up its platform and help Facebook game developers port their games to other web sites.
The investors include Union Square Ventures, which led the previous round, entrepreneur Naval Ravikant and Chris Dix... |
| 16.06.2010 | After Going Premium, Ning Adds E-Commerce And Gaming Revenue Channels For Networks | It’s been no secret that social network platform Ning has been going through a significant transition in both its leadership and business model in 2010. In March, longtime CEO Gina Bianchini was replaced by COO Jason Rosenthal. And in April... |
| 09.06.2010 | The startup con man | Two weeks ago, several tech publications wrote about DinglePharb, an exciting new social gaming developer based in the Philippines and Hong Kong.
Led by a CEO named Nathan Agulto, DinglePharb said it was bringing a game called VVDragon to F... |
| 09.06.2010 | The startup con man | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Two weeks ago, several tech publications wrote about DinglePharb, an exciting new social gaming developer based in the Philippines and ... |
| 20.04.2010 | Boring website? Step on up to the Heyzap Social Games Bar | Heyzap is announcing today that it is launching a “social games bar” that companies can integrate into their websites to add 30,000 games available to users.
The bar is the company’s latest bid to make websites more interesting to users by ... |
| 20.04.2010 | HeyZap Launches A 'Meebo Bar' For Social Games | Web publishers looking to capitalize on the growth in social and casual gaming just got an easier way to integrate them into their sites. HeyZap, a platform that helps syndicate social and casual games and also offers expanded features like... |
| 20.04.2010 | Boring website? Step on up to the Heyzap Social Games Bar | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Heyzap is announcing today that it is launching a “social games bar” that companies can integrate into their websites to add 30,000 gam... |
| 23.03.2010 | Heyzap lets Facebook game developers publish their games to the web | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Heyzap is liberating games from Facebook, allowing social game makers to publish them directly on the web.
The new platform will let ga... |
| 23.03.2010 | Heyzap lets Facebook game developers publish their games to the web | Heyzap is liberating games from Facebook, allowing social game makers to publish them directly on the web.
The new platform will let game creators to maximize their audiences for games that have proven themselves on Facebook or the hi5 soci... |
| 23.03.2010 | HeyZap Now Lets Social Games Expand Beyond Facebook's Walls | HeyZap, the startup that makes it easy for publishers to integrate casual games into their sites, is entering a very hot new territory today: social gaming. The company has partnered with fifteen social game developers, and will be integrat... |
| 26.01.2010 | Heyzap’s new menu bar makes Flash games more social | Unveiling more of its social platform for Flash games, Heyzap is announcing today that it is launching a social menu bar that can be used to simplify the process of signing into casual online games.
The menu bar, the Heyzap Social Bar, is a... |
| 26.01.2010 | Heyzap’s new menu bar makes Flash games more social | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Unveiling more of its social platform for Flash games, Heyzap is announcing today that it is launching a social menu bar that can be us... |
| 24.12.2009 | 5 o’clock roundup: Tablet rumors heat up Apple shares, NORAD tracks Santa | Here’s the latest action:
Talk of an Apple event in January has sent the company’s shares to an all-time high. Rumors that the company will debut a highly anticipated tablet were set ablaze again after The Financial Times reported that Appl... |
| 24.12.2009 | 5 o’clock roundup: Tablet rumors heat up Apple shares, NORAD tracks Santa | 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’s the latest action:
Talk of an Apple event ... |
| 01.12.2009 | Heyzap makes Flash-based web games more social | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Heyzap wants to create the same kind of monetization ecosystem for Flash games as exists with Facebook games and game consoles. So toda... |
| 01.12.2009 | Heyzap Brings Xbox Live-Style Achievements To Flash Gaming | One of the long-standing problems with Flash games is that they often have a very short shelf life: you may play for a few minutes when you’re bored, but there’s nothing to really keep you coming back for more. Today Heyzap, the startup tha... |
| 01.12.2009 | Heyzap makes Flash-based web games more social | Heyzap wants to create the same kind of monetization ecosystem for Flash games as exists with Facebook games and game consoles. So today, it is launching a social platform that creates the equivalent of an Xbox Live for Flash games.
The pla... |
| 02.11.2009 | Webs.com Launches Its Own Application Platform And App Store | Site builder Webs.com (formerly known as Freewebs) is launching a new App Store today with the hopes of helping its members customize their sites with rich, dynamic web apps without having to deal with widgets. The company is adopting a mod... |
| 21.10.2009 | HeyZap Helps Flash Games Go Viral With New API, Launches Analytics Too | Social gaming companies like Zynga and Playdom have proven that casual/social gaming can be an extremely lucrative business. But their success can’t be solely attributed to the quality of their games — they’re also finely tuned to maximize ... |
| 16.09.2009 | A Nice Post by Fred Wilson | The Best Deal In Startup Land
Sarah Lacy has a post up on Techcrunch about Paul Graham and Y Combinator. In the post, she says:
I’ve been a bit hard on Paul Graham and Y Combinator in the past. It’s not that I think he hasn’t been a great... |
| 15.09.2009 | The Best Deal In Startup Land | Sarah Lacy has a post up on Techcrunch about Paul Graham and Y Combinator. In the post, she says:
I’ve been a bit hard on Paul Graham and Y Combinator in the past. It’s not that I think he hasn’t been a great mentor to young entrepreneurs– ... |
| 01.09.2009 | Foursquare | We recently wrote about our search for native mobile applications, which we defined as applications that simply were not possible previously (as opposed to making something that already exists online accessible via mobile). We have also lon... |
| 19.08.2009 | Heyzap's Flash Payment Platform Now Gives Publishers A Cut Of The Action | Last June, Heyzap, the Y Combinator-funded startup that builds products around Flash gaming, launched a new micro-transaction platform for Flash that looked to offer developers a way to monetize their highly viral but difficult-to-monetize ... |
| 23.07.2009 | Y Combinator's Mixpanel Takes Stat Tracking Beyond Google Analytics | One of the most key steps to building a succesful startup is figuring out what works — and what doesn’t. To do this, many companies rely on things like A/B testing to figure out which workflows and designs work best. But there are some thin... |
| 23.07.2009 | Mixpanel: A faster, simpler Google Analytics? | A startup called Mixpanel is launching today with an analytics service that it says can help companies get a much better sense of how users are actually interacting with their websites.
The biggest name in this market is Google Analytics, b... |
| 21.07.2009 | Can this save the Flash game market? Mochi Media launches virtual currency | Flash games on the web started out as a hobby. Now there are tens of thousands of them that, through advertising, are generating steady incomes for their creators. And today, Mochi Media is launching a virtual currency that could extract ev... |
| 03.07.2009 | HeyZap's Looking For A Strong Software Engineer In SF | Our newest portfolio company, HeyZap, is looking for the fourth member of their team. HeyZap is a platform for game developers to get wide viral distribution for their flash games and monetize them.
They are looking for:
a talented engineer... |
| 25.06.2009 | Heyzap introduces virtual goods system for Flash web games | Flash games supported by advertising have been hit hard by the recession. But Heyzap hopes to help the masses of Flash game developers with a new virtual-good system that allows the games to be monetized through micro-transactions.
While su... |
| 25.06.2009 | Flash Gaming Payments Heat Up: Heyzap Launches Microtransaction Platform | Heyzap, the Y Combinator startup that offers an easily-embedded widget containing thousands of Flash games, is launching a major new product today that introduces the company to an entirely new source of revenue. Dubbed HeyZap Payments, the... |
| 25.06.2009 | Heyzap introduces virtual goods system for Flash web games | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Flash games supported by advertising have been hit hard by the recession. But Heyzap hopes to help the masses of Flash game developers ... |
| 03.06.2009 | An inside look at Heyzap | Heyzap just received seed funding from Union Square Ventures. Let's take a look at what it's up to.
Jude Gomila and Immad Akhund, Co-founders of Heyzap, decided it would be best to store their recent round of seed funding, safely away in th... |
| 28.05.2009 | Let's Play Some Games Today | I had some technical issues with this blog yesterday afternoon that got in the way of doing this as part of my post on our newest investment Heyzap.
So I figured we can do it today instead. I’ve selected a bunch of strategy games from the H... |
| 27.05.2009 | Heyzap | Our firm, Union Square Ventures, just announced our most recent investment in a YCombinator backed startup called Heyzap.
Heyzap is a bet on the "deportalization" of casual games on the web. I wrote a post a while back about the d... |
| 27.05.2009 | Heyzap Closes Seed Funding Round For Its Flash Gaming Widget | Heyzap, the Y Combinator startup that’s looking to become a “YouTube For Flash Games“, has closed a seed funding round led by Union Square Ventures, with independent investors Naval Ravikant (Hitforge) and Joshua Schachter (delicious) also ... |
| 26.05.2009 | Heyzap | Online casual games are a large and rapidly growing form of entertainment. According to Comscore over 85 million people play casual games every month in the US alone and minutes spent playing grew a staggering 42% from 2008 to 2009.
Casual... |
| 29.04.2009 | Swine Flu: The New Startup Monetization Plan | Over the last few days, the TechCrunch tips box has been flooded with pitches from companies looking to capitalize on ‘Swine Flu’, the potentially pandemic disease that is currently freaking out a significant portion of Earth’s inhabitants.... |
| 18.03.2009 | Y Combinator Demo Day: Simple cloud management, real-time energy monitoring, and more | If anyone’s feeling depressed about the future of Silicon Valley innovation, I’d suggest sneaking into the demo day tomorrow at incubator Y Combinator‘s Mountain View, Calif. office. Watching a bunch of smart, ambitious entrepreneurs show o... |
| 18.03.2009 | Y Combinator Demo Day Spring 2009 | The 16 startups from Y Combinator’s spring session presented their ideas and initial products at Y Combinator’s Silicon Valley office this afternoon. Of the 16 startups in this group, 8 have already launched, 6 are in the process of launchi... |
| 17.03.2009 | Nonoba Enters The Flash Games Arena With GameRise, A "Ning For Gaming Sites" | We already had HeyZap, the “YouTube for Flash games” and Game Curry, a search engine for Flash games, so not that much of a surprise we now have a “Ning for Flash games” that lets anyone create a gaming website much like Marc Andreessen’s s... |
| 17.03.2009 | Y Combinator set to fund more startups | Seed-stage investment fund is going to Party like it's 2009
Y Combinator, a seed-stage investment fund, announced this week that it raised $2 million from Sequoia Capital, and angel investors.
The fund, which has invested in 40 startups per... |
| 09.03.2009 | TicTacTi Employs Image Recognition for In-Game Widget Ads | Casual games may see a vast amount of traffic, but monetizing them can be more than a little tricky due to issues relating to Flash-based game files and the needs of various publishers. Israeli startup TicTacTi is looking to make monetizing... |
| 15.01.2009 | Heyzap Vies To Become A 'YouTube For Flash Games' | There are countless Flash games on the web, but weeding through them to find the one you’re looking for can be a challenge. Heyzap the first company out of Y Combinator‘s latest batch of startups, is looking to offer users a comprehensive d... |
