Gaikai lines up financing for cloud-based gaming servicesTuesday, March 16, 2010Source: Venture Beat | Category: Technology Gaikai, the games on demand company founded by game veteran David Perry, has lined up financing for an ambitious expansion of its server capacity needs. Perry (pictured, center) said in an interview last week at the Game Developers Conference that Triplepoint Capital will provide enough financing to enable Gaikai to lease a worldwide network of servers for its games-on-demand technology. In exchange for the financing, Gaikai is giving Triplepoint Capital warrants to buy stock. The Aliso Viejo, Calif. [...] Read more |
Peter Molyneux is a greedy little fat child when it comes to hooking gamers (video)Tuesday, March 16, 2010Source: Venture Beat | Category: Technology Peter Molyneux , founder of Microsoft’s Lionhead Studios, is an elder statesman of the video game business. His next big game is Fable III, coming this fall to the Xbox 360. He has been making the Fable action-adventure role-playing games for the better part of a decade. This is a big deal in part because no one waxes poetic about games than Molyneux, who talks like a Shakespearean actor and wants games to become a recognized form of art. With each new edition of Fable, Molyneux tries to push the envelope and give players a new reason to be engrossed in his game worlds. [...] Read more |
2010 VC market outlook: No cash for clunkersTuesday, March 16, 2010Source: Venture Beat | Category: Technology (Editor’s note: Don Rainey is a general partner at Grotech Ventures and author of the “VC in DC” blog. He submitted this column to VentureBeat.) Throughout the financial crisis of 2008-09, most venture capitalists wisely advised startups to hunker down. The best bet, they said, was to lower expenses and, above all else, avoid fundraising in 2009, since all eyes were on 2010 as the proverbial light at the end of the tunnel. The advice, as it turns out, was somewhat short-sighted. We are now 18 months past the height of the financial crisis. [...] Read more |
NorthScale, a Memcached-focused Startup LaunchesTuesday, March 16, 2010Source: GigaOM | Category: Media NorthScale, a Mountain View, Calif-based software start-up co-founded by leaders of memcached open source projects, launched today. It has raised $5 million in venture funding from Accel Partners and North Bridge Venture Partners and hopes to cash in on the growing needs of web-based businesses. Read more |
NorthScale, a Memecached-focused Startup LaunchesTuesday, March 16, 2010Source: GigaOM | Category: Media NorthScale, a Mountain View, Calif-based software start-up co-founded by leaders of memcached open source projects, launched today. It has raised $5 million in venture funding from Accel Partners and North Bridge Venture Partners and hopes to cash in on the growing needs of web-based businesses. Read more |
NorthScale, a Memecached-focused Startup, LaunchesTuesday, March 16, 2010Source: GigaOM | Category: Media NorthScale, a Mountain View, Calif-based software start-up co-founded by leaders of memcached open source projects, launched today. It has raised $5 million in venture funding from Accel Partners and North Bridge Venture Partners and hopes to cash in on the growing needs of web-based businesses. Read more |
NorthScale, a Memcached-focused Startup, LaunchesTuesday, March 16, 2010Source: GigaOM | Category: Media NorthScale, a Mountain View, Calif-based software start-up co-founded by leaders of memcached open source projects, launched today. It has raised $5 million in venture funding from Accel Partners and North Bridge Venture Partners and hopes to cash in on the growing needs of web-based businesses. Read more |
NorthScale launches data infrastructure tools; announces Zynga as first customerTuesday, March 16, 2010Source: Venture Beat | Category: Technology A new company is launching today to helped popular web applications handle their growing data management needs. NorthScale built its tools around the open source memcached technology, and it has already enlisted some high-profile venture firms and customers. In fact, the company was basically incubated by Accel Partners, which helped put the founding team together and orchestrated its $5 million first round of funding — Accel’s Kevin Efrusy said his firm saw an opportunity around the “explosion of orders of magnitude more data” used by web applications, and specifically around memcached, a memory caching system that helps companies access their data more quickly. [...] Read more |
INQ Launches in IndiaTuesday, March 16, 2010Source: GigaOM | Category: Media INQ today launched its social mobile phones in India. With MS Dhoni, captain of Indian Cricket Team as its spokesperson and Aircel as launch partner, the company hopes to sell INQ Mini 3G and the INQ Chat 3G in large volumes in India. Read more |
Sony shows what an epic game really is with God of War IIITuesday, March 16, 2010Source: Venture Beat | Category: Technology Sony’s role in video games seems to be to remind us every now and then what an epic game is all about. It is doing so again today with the launch of God of War III for the PlayStation 3. It’s been three years since God of War II came out on the PlayStation 2, and this game is absolutely worth the wait for fans who favor mature-rated video games where nothing is sacred and bone-crushing violence is built into every scene. In the game, the bloodthirsty Kratos, the god of war, is still as angry as ever at Zeus and the other gods of the Greek pantheon. [...] Read more |
Arkadium scores a million players for its first Facebook gameTuesday, March 16, 2010Source: Venture Beat | Category: Technology Lots of casual game companies are trying to adapt to the popularity of social games on Facebook. They’re busy adapting games from casual game web sites to run on the social network, often without success. But Arkadium has scored a hit with its very first Facebook game: Mahjonng Dimensions. Since its launch on Jan. 15, the game has generated more than 1 million monthly active users. About 4.6 million games are being played every day, making it the most popular mahjong game on Facebook. That’s a fast start for a company that otherwise had no presence on Facebook. [...] Read more |
BrightEdge lands $6.5M more for SEO management platformTuesday, March 16, 2010Source: Venture Beat | Category: Technology BrightEdge, a search engine optimization management platform, today announced that it has secured a second round of funding for $6.5 million. The new funds will be used to expand engineering and operations for a growing customer base as well as to ramp up marketing and sales. BrightEdge is an online search engine optimization (SEO) platform that helps customers manage their SEO programs — programs to improve the quality and volume of website traffic from search engines. The platform lets you track and report traffic and analyze your competition. [...] Read more |
Intel launches new generation of server chips to make the cloud more efficientTuesday, March 16, 2010Source: Venture Beat | Category: Technology The racks and racks of servers in Internet data centers are about to get more efficient. Intel is launching a series of new server chips today that deliver a lot of bang for the buck. The new Intel Xeon processor 5600 series chips have as many as six cores, or computing brains in a chip. They have other features that, taken together, allow a server with just one Xeon 5600 chip to replace 15 single-core servers from five years ago. The investment in the new chip can pay off in as little as five months if it is used to replace five-year-old servers, said Boyd Davis, general manager of data center group marketing at Santa Clara, Calif. [...] Read more |
Intel’s new game processor gives artificial intelligence in games a boostTuesday, March 16, 2010Source: Venture Beat | Category: Technology Graphics chips provide the biggest gee-whiz performance in a game computer. But Intel argues that the microprocessors that it makes make their contribution as well. The company is making that case with its latest processor, the Intel Core i7-980X processor Extreme Edition. The new chip is based on Intel’s 32-nanometer manufacturing process, which produces chips that are faster, smaller and cheaper than prior versions. It has six processing cores, or computing brains, and each core is capable of processing two pieces of code at once. [...] Read more |
Details emerge on Windows Phone 7 Series Marketplace, developer partners, and hardwareTuesday, March 16, 2010Source: Venture Beat | Category: Technology Netflix support wasn’t the only big announcement for Windows Phone 7 Series at Microsoft’s Mix10 event yesterday. We also got a look at the Windows Phone Marketplace, developer partners for launch, and brand new Windows Phone hardware details. The Marketplace appears to be just as slick and well organized as what we’ve previously seen from the mobile operating system. It has support for credit card purchases, ad-supported content, and the option to pay for apps via your phone bill. [...] Read more |
Mobile: Where cognitive anthropology meets marketingTuesday, March 16, 2010Source: Mobile Marketer | Category: Mobile By a href=" http://www.brain-sells.com/" target="_new"Bob Deutsch/apWith all this platform and device choice, attention becomes so fragmented and frenetic, content so sliced and diced, that people feel less “situated” than at the outset of their search.img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/homepage-news/~4/0stbGU8HCQc" height="1" width="1"/ Read more |
Ubisoft click-to-play mobile video ads see 1.3 percent CTRTuesday, March 16, 2010Source: Mobile Marketer | Category: Mobile Ubisoft leveraged interactive mobile video and banner ads to promote both the Assassin’s Creed II console game title and its iPhone application.img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/homepage-news/~4/lAecjnQjfGE" height="1" width="1"/ Read more |
Mobile Commerce Daily today - Fandango introduces new mobile bar code ticketing serviceTuesday, March 16, 2010Source: Mobile Marketer | Category: Mobile Mobile Commerce Daily today - Fandango introduces new mobile bar code ticketing service; Universal’s “Repo Men” mobile video ads drive movie ticket sales.img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/homepage-news/~4/_tv60L6rc6o" height="1" width="1"/ Read more |
Levi’s taps mobile to engage trendsetting music fansTuesday, March 16, 2010Source: Mobile Marketer | Category: Mobile The Levi’s/Fader Fort application for iPhone and Android launched just in time for South by Southwest 2010 with the goal of engaging festival attendees and trendsetting music fans.img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/homepage-news/~4/2WIQMg3OcJo" height="1" width="1"/ Read more |
Fandango introduces new mobile bar code ticketing service - Mobile Commerce DailyTuesday, March 16, 2010Source: Mobile Marketer | Category: Mobile Mobile Commerce Daily today - Fandango introduces new mobile bar code ticketing service; Universal’s “Repo Men” mobile video ads drive movie ticket sales.img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/homepage-news/~4/_tv60L6rc6o" height="1" width="1"/ Read more |
