| Date | Title | Description |
| 04.06.2013 | Zynga Shuts Down OMGPOP One Year After Acquiring It For $200M | As the dust begins to settle following yesterday’s massive, sweeping layoffs at Zynga, the extent of the damage is becoming more clear.
Remember when Zynga acquired OMGPOP last year for roughly $200M dollars? Yeah, OMGPOP essentially no lon... |
| 01.04.2013 | On Take-off Runway With A Chance of Runaway Growth: A Case of Social Products | |
| 08.02.2013 | Moot’s New iPad App, DrawQuest Challenges Users Of All Ages To Create And Share Drawings | 4chan founder Christopher Poole (a.k.a. moot) launched Canvas in 2011 as a place to remix images and reduce friction in the image creation process. But he found that unless you were an active member of the remixing community, it wasn’t as n... |
| 21.12.2012 | Inside The App Stores: Apple, Android & The Hottest App You’ve Never Heard Of | What app broke through to become one of the most popular in 2012? If you live outside Asia, chances are you’ve never heard of it: Naver’s Line Pop, a matching game that an analyst report this week estimated at 1.75 million downloads in just... |
| 29.11.2012 | The Anti-SMS: Kik Texting App Adds Image/Video Sharing | Hey, wanna Kik me?
No?
Well, I wasn’t aware that Kik had been verbified either – but it’s no surprise. The dead-simple messaging app is nothing short of a runaway hit among the text-crazed, sociallysavvy younger set. And with SMS text messa... |
| 02.11.2012 | OMGPOP Founder Charles Forman Raises $4M For Picturelife, An App For Backing Up Your Photos In The Cloud | OMGPOP founder Charles Forman has raised some money for his new venture Picturelife. The startup, which is focused on backing up, storing, and providing access to all of your photos in the cloud, closed $4 million in new funding.
Picturelif... |
| 15.08.2012 | Startup News: Bat Haus Brings Coworking to Bushwick and Tech Launch Announces its Inaugural Class | Bat Haus, Bushwick’s new coworking space. (photo: Bat Haus)
Summer love Do you ever find yourself wishing that couples therapy was cheaper? Well, here’s an app that claims to be just as effective, and for only $7.95 a month (limited time on... |
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| 24.07.2012 | Facebook outlines the opportunities in social games | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
The common belief is that Zynga has social games locked up on Facebook. But the social network is eager to dispel that idea, even if Zy... |
| 12.06.2012 | Startup News: CityMaps Expands Eastward; Hack’n Jill Reminds Us Girls Are Hackers, Too | (flickr.com/VancityAllie)
More maps CityMaps added Boston to its growing list of locales this week. The company also unveiled Featured Maps, which provides users with a layer of recommendations (think NYC and Co’s Best Pizza in NYC and New ... |
| 21.05.2012 | Gary Sharma’s Internet Week 2012 Highlights (Nerd Proms, Rooftop Parties, Will Arnett DJ’ing, Michael Stipe Sightings ‘n more!) | Aol’s Andrea Hong, GroupMe/Skype’s Steve Cheney, TechStars’ Justin Overdorff, Shelby.tv’s Chris Kurdziel and Lauren Appelwick, American Express’ Meghan Paul, Acquaintable’s Joel Rodriguez and Greycroft Partners’ Alisa Richter posing at the ... |
| 18.04.2012 | Update Your Draw Something App To Chat, Save Drawings, Share ‘Em To Facebook and Twitter | Tell your friends to hit the App Store or Android market, there’s a new update for Draw Something out today with some cool new features. Now you can chat with friends while you play, save your drawings to your phone or tablet, and share tho... |
| 22.03.2012 | 5 Lessons From OMGPOP’s Huge ‘Draw Something’ Sale To Zynga | The obvious lesson from Zynga’s purchase of OMGPOP yesterday is that the games industry is still very much a hits-driven business. And when you’re the giant in the business and a small startup like OMGPOP has a smash hit, it’s easier to buy... |
| 21.03.2012 | Did Zynga Pay Too Much For Draw Something Maker? | Zynga acquired the maker of the runaway hit mobile game Draw Something for a reported $180 million.
In addition to the purchase price, Zynga will pay $30 million in employee retention bonuses as part of its acquisition of OMGPOP, a 40-emplo... |
| 21.03.2012 | Draw Something Sucks, But Here’s Why Zynga Was Smart To Buy and Not Clone It | In Draw Something, you do not win or lose, you don’t level up over time, and you won’t keep making in-app purchases. But Zynga needs more mobile talent and it could tweak the game into a viral, money-making powerhouse, so it was still smart... |
| 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... |
| 08.03.2012 | Flurry App Spotlight Awards winners to be announced at SXSW | 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!
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| 08.03.2012 | Flurry App Spotlight Awards winners to be announced at SXSW | This sponsored post is produced by Flurry.
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| 06.03.2012 | A Picture’s Worth 12 Million Downloads: Draw Something Is #1 on iOS and Android | Draw Something proves that if you provide an outlet for imagination, the whole world will play. One month after launch, OMGPOP’s CEO tells me its Pictionary-style mobile game now has 12 million downloads, around 7.1 million daily active use... |
| 21.02.2012 | OMGPOP Hits 1M Downloads For Draw Something App, “Locked Down” On Mobile Strategy | Social game-maker OMGPOP says it has another mobile hit — its app Draw Something has been downloaded more than 1 million times in 10 days.
Draw Something is based on OMGPOP’s online game Draw My Thing. Described by CEO Dan Porter as a turn-... |
| 21.02.2012 | OMGPOP Keeps Rolling in the Downloads | Draw Something (originally the edgier "Draw My Thing").
With $ZNGA raking it in and SNAP Interactive’s booming stock price, why anyone would ever do a startup for something other than social gaming is beyond us. Soho-based OMGPOP ... |
| 16.08.2011 | Rumors & Acquisitions: Social Media Edition | OMGNATE. We posted about Nate Westheimer selling the first app he ever coded, Ohours, to Hirelite. Ohours was going great! People loved it! And yet Mr. Westheimer was ready to move on to bigger and better Rubylicious things. Although he dem... |
| 01.08.2011 | What OMGPOP Learned From One Million Downloads of Puppy Love | It is true. Everyone loves puppies. Online gaming site OMGPOP wisely chose Puppy World to be its first iPhone game. In the mobile game, you take care of puppies, give them to children and increase the happiness in the world. In the two week... |
| 27.01.2011 | Facebook Instant Credits Are Tripling Virtual Goods Sales For OMGPOP | Now that Facebook will require all games on the social network to use Facebook Credits, it is adding new features to encourage players to spend money on virtual goods. At the Inside Social Apps conference a couple days ago, Facebook announc... |
| 06.01.2011 | Gaming Site OMGPOP Raises $10.1 Million, Plans Acquisitions | OMGPOP, the social gaming site formerly known as iminlikewithyou, has raised $10.1 million in Series B-1 funding, we’ve been informed. The round was split between two existing investors (Spark Capital and Betaworks) and two new ones (Rho Ca... |
| 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... |
| 30.05.2010 | Did Amazon Miss The Boat On Social Commerce? | Few will dispute Amazon’s role as current king of the e-commerce space, but this week’s TechCrunch Disrupt conference raised an interesting question: Did Amazon miss the boat on social commerce?
At the conference last week in New York, John... |
| 09.03.2010 | Revised video game financing list: 115 game companies raised $663.1M in 2009 | [Update: We’ve added our list with new fundings we’ve heard about from readers and Engage Digital Media].
Game startups continued to score big investments in 2009, but the amount of money raised in the year fell considerably compared to 200... |
| 09.03.2010 | Revised video game financing list: 115 game companies raised $663.1M in 2009 | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
[Update: We’ve added our list with new fundings we’ve heard about from readers and Engage Digital Media].
Game startups continued to sc... |
| 24.02.2010 | OMGPOP Remakes Atari's Missile Command For The Multiplayer Web (Exclusive Video) | Flash games on the Web are getting to be so quick and responsive . . . that they can recreate 30-year-old arcade games no problem. And that’s just fine with me because those are about the only video games where I can hold my own. Online vid... |
| 10.12.2009 | Facebook gamers offered virtual cash to oppose Obama health care reform | Like to play social games on Facebook? You could now be a target for health insurance industry trade groups opposed to President Obama’s health care reform efforts. At least, that’s what OMGPOP chief executive Dan Porter told Business Insid... |
| 22.09.2009 | Zong Launches Subscription Service For Mobile Payments | Over the past year, we’ve written frequently about mobile payments startups and the potential future of this technology. Rivals Zong and Boku both offer essentially the same service—the ability to make a payment for a micro-transactions via... |
| 23.04.2009 | Putting Video Games to Work | April 23, 2009 min read
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Consider Salary.com's 2008 Wasting Time at Work survey, which concluded that a "record number" of people waste time at work, up nearly 16 perce... |
| 11.03.2009 | Bessemer, Spark Are In Like with OMGPOP | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
New York-based OMGPOP, an online gaming and social networking destination for teens and twentysomethings that was known until recently as “I’minlikewithyou,” has raised $5 mil... |
| 10.03.2009 | OMGPOP to turn its casual gamers into paying customers | OMGPOP, the new brevity-focused name for the casual gaming site formerly known as Iminlikewithyou, says its half a million users are spending more than 180 hours on the site each month. That activity has positioned the company to introduce ... |
