| Date | Title | Description |
| 15.12.2021 | Mobile bill payment app Papaya raises $50M Series B | Papaya, a mobile payment platform that reduces bill pay friction, announced raising a $50 million Series B funding round led by Bessemer Venture Partners, according to a press release shared with FinLedger.
The company plans to use the fund... |
| 19.09.2016 | Analyzing China’s mobile advertising technology market | Yoni Argaman Contributor
Yoni Argaman is vice president of marketing and business strategy at Inneractive.
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| 24.05.2016 | Woman-led ad tech firm PapayaMobile goes public in China | 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!
Pivoting from social mobile games to ad tech has ... |
| 20.01.2015 | For Mobile Growth Pay Attention To Markets Beyond The US And China | Si Shen Contributor
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Editor’s Note: Si Shen is the co-founder & CEO of PapayaMobile, the Beijing-based mobile company that operates AppFlood, the largest ... |
| 20.01.2015 | Most new Android users are coming from Asia, Latin America, and Eastern Europe, AppFlood says | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
The latest stats from AppFlood shouldn’t surprise anyone following Android’s growth around the world.
Most new Android users are hailin... |
| 20.01.2015 | Most new Android users are coming from Asia, Latin America, and Eastern Europe, AppFlood says | The latest stats from AppFlood shouldn’t surprise anyone following Android’s growth around the world.
Most new Android users are hailing from Asia, Latin America, and Eastern Europe, according to the fourth quarter data dump from AppFlood, ... |
| 12.08.2014 | Papaya Mobile's Appflood helps Chinese game makers succeed outside their homeland (interview) | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Above: Appflood
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PapayaMobile has gone through a few different pivots during its history. But Si Shen, the chi... |
| 12.08.2014 | Papaya Mobile's Appflood helps Chinese game makers succeed outside their homeland (interview) | Above: Appflood
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PapayaMobile has gone through a few different pivots during its history. But Si Shen, the chief executive of the Beijing-based company, believes she has a winning business with AppFlood.
The company... |
| 05.08.2014 | The US Market Will Benefit From China’s Tech Growth | Si Shen Contributor
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| 17.07.2014 | Global mobile ad spending grows 48% in Q2 over Q1, with emerging markets dominating | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Global mobile ad spending is growing rapidly around the world thanks to rapid mobile traffic growth in Asia and the Middle East. A new ... |
| 17.07.2014 | Global mobile ad spending grows 48% in Q2 over Q1, with emerging markets dominating | Global mobile ad spending is growing rapidly around the world thanks to rapid mobile traffic growth in Asia and the Middle East. A new report shows that China and other emerging regions of the world are becoming major influencers of the glo... |
| 29.05.2014 | Kiwi Calendar’s New App Does More Than Organize Your Meetings, It Also Recommends Local Events | Beijing-headquartered PapayaMobile is known best as a social gaming network and the operators of mobile ad network AppFlood, but today, it’s going in a new direction with the release of a mobile calendaring application. The idea with the ne... |
| 29.04.2014 | Racing games outrun casual in Android mobile ad revenue in Q1 | Racing games generated 2.5 times more revenue than casual titles in mobile ad revenue on Android in the first quarter.
That’s one of the findings of the first quarterly data report on global mobile advertising from AppFlood, a real-time bid... |
| 08.04.2014 | Papaya Mobile's Appflood creates a real-time market for mobile ads in China | PapayaMobile is launching platform that will make it easier to create targeted and branded ads in an efficient and automated fashion for the Chinese mobile gaming market.
The AppFlood service will offer what it calls a real-time bidding and... |
| 08.04.2014 | Papaya Mobile's Appflood creates a real-time market for mobile ads in China | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
PapayaMobile is launching platform that will make it easier to create targeted and branded ads in an efficient and automated fashion fo... |
| 20.02.2014 | PapayaMobile’s next product isn’t a game service. It’s a smart calendar | In the history of pivots, this seems like a big one. PapayaMobile made its name as a mobile social network platform for games. Now it is launching a new mobile calendar, dubbed the Kiwi Calendar.
Above: Kiwi Calendar
Image Credit: PapayaMob... |
| 20.02.2014 | PapayaMobile’s next product isn’t a game service. It’s a smart calendar | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
In the history of pivots, this seems like a big one. PapayaMobile made its name as a mobile social network platform for games. Now it i... |
| 01.07.2013 | Developers are dissatisfied with app marketing and advertising | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
More than 70 percent of developers are dissatisfied with their current options for app marketing and advertising.
That’s the results of... |
| 17.04.2013 | iBomber sets its sights on Android | Multi-million selling top-down arcade bombing game now available on Google Play and China Mobile
Dundee/London, 17 April 2013 - Today, independent mobile game developer Cobra Mobile announced the global launch of iBomber as a freemium title... |
| 04.10.2012 | AppFlood is one of the fastest growing developer-to-developer ad networks | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Android developers looking to gain traction with new people may want to look at PapayaMobile’s AppFlood.
The technology services compan... |
| 04.10.2012 | AppFlood rides wave of developer demand, ramps up daily installs | Commission-free cross-promotion network is facilitating thousands of installs per app every day for Android developers
San Francisco, CA – October 4 2012 – AppFlood (http://appflood.com/), the free user acquisition channel for cost-consciou... |
| 12.07.2012 | PapayaMobile Is Out To Disrupt App Cross Promotions With Cost-Free, Commission-Free Network | Social gaming network PapayaMobile is introducing a new service today for Android developers – a cost-free and commission-free cross promotion network called AppFlood. The network had already been in testing with around 20 mobile developers... |
| 03.02.2012 | Ansca Mobile Accuses Partner PapayaMobile Of Copying Its Code | Ansca Mobile, the Palo Alto-based mobile development company and makers of the popular Corona SDK, is accusing its partner PapayaMobile of ripping off parts of its SDK for use in PapayaMobile’s Social Game Engine. According to Ansca Mobile ... |
| 15.12.2011 | PapayaMobile Launches “The Games Academy,” An Accelerator For Mobile, Social Game Developers | Mobile games network PapayaMobile is launching a new accelerator for mobile, social game developers called “The Games Academy,” which will kick off in Q1 2012. Like most accelerators, Papaya will be providing developers with office space, s... |
| 16.11.2011 | PapayaMobile & Tapjoy Announce Partnership On New Social Marketplace For Mobile | Social gaming network PapayaMobile and the value exchange-based mobile ad network Tapjoy are today announcing a partnership that will combine the power of their two communities to help Android users better discover new mobile games. The joi... |
| 16.11.2011 | Tapjoy and PapayaMobile team up to deliver social market for Android apps | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Tapjoy and PapayaMobile are announcing a partnership to create a new social marketplace for Android mobile app developers.
The market w... |
| 16.11.2011 | Tapjoy Partners With PapayaMobile for Social Discovery of Mobile Apps | Mobile ad network Tapjoy is in the process of changing itself from a business-to-business company to a consumer application discovery tool. In that vein, the company announced this morning that it is partnering with PapayaMobile to create a... |
| 16.11.2011 | Tapjoy and PapayaMobile team up to deliver social market for Android apps | Tapjoy and PapayaMobile are announcing a partnership to create a new social marketplace for Android mobile app developers.
The market will be one more way for developers to get their apps noticed in a sea of hundreds of thousands of competi... |
| 26.10.2011 | Social Gaming Network PapayaMobile Coming To iOS | The popular social gaming network for Android, PapayaMobile, is announcing today that it’s now expanding its gaming platform to iOS. The company is making its social development toolkits available to iOS developers as a beta release, allowi... |
| 20.10.2011 | DCM invests in PapayaMobile, Appia, and more with Android-focused A-Fund | 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!
Investment firm DCM, which launched its $100 mill... |
| 20.10.2011 | DCM invests in PapayaMobile, Appia, and more with Android-focused A-Fund | Investment firm DCM, which launched its $100 million A-Fund for Android startups back in April, today announced its first round of investments with seven promising startups.
The A-Fund is the first dedicated entirely to Android, and it comp... |
| 29.09.2011 | For PapayaMobile’s social games, the women are the “whales” (exclusive) | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
As is customary in games, PapayaMobile depends heavily on the tiny proportion of users who pay for goods in social mobile games. But on... |
| 24.08.2011 | China’s PapayaMobile reveals strong growth stats for mobile games | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
PapayaMobile, China-based maker of a mobile social networking platform for Android phones, now has more than 25 million users, up 940 p... |
| 24.08.2011 | Social Gaming Network PapayaMobile Hits 25M Users | Today, PapayaMobile, the social gaming network for Android, is announcing a new milestone: it has topped 25 million users, which represents over 940% growth since the beginning of last year. The company attributes the increase to both the g... |
| 24.08.2011 | China’s PapayaMobile reveals strong growth stats for mobile games | PapayaMobile, China-based maker of a mobile social networking platform for Android phones, now has more than 25 million users, up 940 percent since January 2010, the company said today.
More than 11 million paid transactions have been made ... |
| 30.06.2011 | PapayaMobile will introduce Western Android game developers to Chinese market | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
China has more than 800 million mobile phones and a huge Android device market. So PapayaMobile hopes to leverage its prime location in... |
| 25.05.2011 | Our next set of speakers for GamesBeat 2011 | Today we’re revealing the second set of speakers for our third annual GamesBeat 2011 conference. Our slate of speakers will include David Ko, senior vice president of mobile games at Zynga, the world’s largest social game company; Si Shen, ... |
| 25.05.2011 | Our next set of speakers for GamesBeat 2011 | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Today we’re revealing the second set of speakers for our third annual GamesBeat 2011 conference. Our slate of speakers will include Dav... |
| 27.04.2011 | PapayaMobile Raises $18 Million For Mobile Social Gaming Network | PapayaMobile, the developer of a plug and play technology that incorporates social gaming elements into iOS and Android games, has secured $18 million in Series B funding led by Chinese venture firm Keytone Ventures and DCM. This brings Pap... |
| 27.04.2011 | PapayaMobile raises $18M for mobile social game platform | PapayaMobile, the Chinese mobile social game platform startup, has raised $18 million in a second round of funding. It’s another sign that mobile gaming is heating up.
The company plans to use the funding to expand its ecosystem of Android ... |
| 27.04.2011 | PapayaMobile Secures $18M in Series B Funding Round | PapayaMobile, a Beijing, China-based social gaming network on Android, has secured $18m in a Series B funding round.
The round was led by Keytone Ventures and DCM.
The company intends to use the funds to expand its developer ecosystem in bo... |
| 27.04.2011 | PapayaMobile raises $18M for mobile social game platform | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
PapayaMobile, the Chinese mobile social game platform startup, has raised $18 million in a second round of funding. It’s another sign t... |
| 27.04.2011 | PapayaMobile raises $18M for Android network | Mobile social gaming networks might be this year's twist on the always-hot social gaming startup
Android gaming network PapayaMobile announced Wednesday that it has raised $18 million in Series B funding led by Keytone Ventures and DCM. The... |
| 27.04.2011 | PapayaMobile Nabs $18M In Hot Mobile Gaming Sector | PapayaMobile has raised $18 million in venture capital financing, showing the strong appetite for gaming companies, particularly among Asian investors and companies. |
| 29.03.2011 | PapayaMobile Integrates Android In-App Billing | As we heard last week, Google is finally rolling out its much awaited in-app payment and billing system. Papaya Mobile, the developer of a plug and play technology that incorporates social gaming elements into iOS and Android games, is anno... |
| 20.03.2011 | PapayaMobile Relaunches FarmVille-Like Game For iOS | Platforms like OpenFeint are becoming popular for game developers to easily implement a plug and play technology to incorporate social gaming elements into iOS and Android games. PapayaMobile also offers a similar platform, as well as dedic... |
| 03.12.2010 | PapayaMobile launches Chinese version of Android game-development kit | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
PapayaMobile is launching the Chinese language version of its software development kit today as part of a plan to get more developers t... |
| 03.12.2010 | PapayaMobile launches Chinese version of Android game-development kit | PapayaMobile is launching the Chinese language version of its software development kit today as part of a plan to get more developers to make Android mobile games with its tools.
The Beijing-based company created Papaya Game Engine for Andr... |
| 16.11.2010 | PapayaMobile releases tools to help developers create Android mobile games | PapayaMobile is launching a set of tools today that will make it easier for developers to make Android games.
The Beijing-based company already makes a social game platform that developers can use to make their Android titles more social wi... |
| 16.11.2010 | PapayaMobile releases tools to help developers create Android mobile games | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
PapayaMobile is launching a set of tools today that will make it easier for developers to make Android games.
The Beijing-based company... |
| 18.10.2010 | PapayaMobile creates partnerships to help developers make money on Android apps | When it comes to making money on apps, Apple developers are far ahead of Google Android developers. But PapayaMobile is announcing today that it has set up key partners to enable in-app purchases for Android apps.
If developers support it a... |
| 18.10.2010 | PapayaMobile creates partnerships to help developers make money on Android apps | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
When it comes to making money on apps, Apple developers are far ahead of Google Android developers. But PapayaMobile is announcing toda... |
| 21.09.2010 | PapayaMobile makes it a snap to add location to social mobile games | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
PapayaMobile is making it simple for developers to add location-based features to their Android mobile games.
The Beijing-based company... |
| 21.09.2010 | PapayaMobile makes it a snap to add location to social mobile games | PapayaMobile is making it simple for developers to add location-based features to their Android mobile games.
The Beijing-based company, which makes a social game platform for Android developers, has updated its software development kit to ... |
| 08.09.2010 | Coming Oct. 18: DiscoveryBeat 2010 speakers to explain the secret recipe for getting content noticed | VentureBeat is gearing up for our second annual DiscoveryBeat 2010 conference and are pleased to announce our first speakers.
Our conference on Oct. 18 — expanded to a full day of proceedings — will highlight the evolving landscape of disco... |
| 08.09.2010 | Coming Oct. 18: DiscoveryBeat 2010 speakers to explain the secret recipe for getting content noticed | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
VentureBeat is gearing up for our second annual DiscoveryBeat 2010 conference and are pleased to announce our first speakers.
Our confe... |
| 31.08.2010 | PapayaMobile launches Android App of the Day | If you thought that getting apps noticed was tough on the iPhone, it’s even harder on Android phones. That’s why PapayaMobile is unveiling its Android App Of The Day, an app-marketing program, today.
PapayaMobile, the Beijing-based mobile s... |
| 31.08.2010 | PapayaMobile launches Android App of the Day | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
If you thought that getting apps noticed was tough on the iPhone, it’s even harder on Android phones. That’s why PapayaMobile is unveil... |
| 13.07.2010 | MobileBeat: Will Android beat iPhone in mobile gaming? | While Android’s user base is expected to surpass the iPhone’s, many passionate gamers would tell you that the gaming experience on the iPhone is far better than on Android – primarily because of the buttonless form factor of iPhone, but als... |
| 23.06.2010 | PapayaMobile Raises $4M | PapayaMobile, a Beijing, China- and Menlo Park, CA-based company that provides users and mobile developers with an open mobile social network and gaming platform, has closed a $4m funding.
The round was led by venture capital firm DCM.
This... |
| 23.06.2010 | PapayaMobile gets $4M for Android gaming | Mobile network for social gaming on Google Android smartphones is already profitable
PapayaMobile, a mobile network and social gaming platform for Google Android devices, has raised $4 million in new funding from global venture capital firm... |
| 23.06.2010 | PapayaMobile raises $4M, launches mobile social game platform for Android (exclusive) | PapayaMobile has raised $4 million for the launch of its new mobile social networking platform on Android devices.
The Beijing-based company already has more than 3.5 million global users for its cross-platform mobile games. The company got... |
