Posts Tagged ‘Game’

Mobile App Development Boom Driving Impressive Growth for Appcelerator

Thursday, September 9, 2010 3:02 No Comments

As more and more software development focuses on smartphones, a new industry is building up to help developers create and rapidly deploy mobile applications.One of the companies that is making big waves in the cross-platform mobile development game is… Read more

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Reggie Bush Uses Foursquare and Stickybits for Football Scavenger Hunt

Thursday, September 9, 2010 2:58 No Comments

Last year’s Super Bowl champions, the New Orleans Saints, will kick off their season with a home opener against the Minnesota Vikings Thursday night. In anticipation of the game, running back Reggie Bush is giving away eight autographed footballs to… Read more

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SocialDeck Announces Acquisition by Google

Monday, August 30, 2010 22:33 No Comments

Google continues its pattern of social gaming-related acquisitions with the acquisition of SocialDeck. Inside Social Games has discovered a letter posted to SocialDeck’s website, announcing the acquisition. The letter says: Big news! We’re super excited to announce that someone found ou social games as fun as you have – in this case, that "someone" is [...]

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SCVNGR Brings Location Game to Facebook Places

Friday, August 27, 2010 21:35 No Comments

Taking an if-you-can’t-beat-them, join-them-and-beat-them attitude, SCVNGR is today unveiling its integration plans for Facebook Places and launching new features to take of advantage of both Facebook Places’s read and write APIs.SCVNGR is just one of… Read more

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AT&T Pilots In-Store Rewards Using SCVNGR

Tuesday, August 24, 2010 20:37 No Comments

AT&T has begun offering rewards for in-store interactions via SCVNGR, the mobile app that approaches location and checkins as a way to create a game layer for the real world.The SCVNGR rewards pilot program, which launches… Read more

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The WikiLeaks Debate: Journalists Weigh In

Friday, August 20, 2010 19:32 No Comments

WikiLeaks and potential imitators could be game changers for the relationships between journalists and the governments and companies they cover. The merits or dangers of those changes are, however, big points of contention for both the organizations that have experienced… Read more

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Is Facebook Foursquare’s Enemy? It’s Complicated

Wednesday, August 11, 2010 16:31 No Comments

At this point, pretty much every tech industry insider knows that Facebook is going to jump into the geolocation game. First rumored to be launching at Facebook’s F8 conference back in April, the exact date of Facebook’s location… Read more

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More Tickets Available for Mashable Summer Tour in D.C., NYC and Chicago

Tuesday, July 27, 2010 3:00 No Comments

The West Coast stops in Seattle and San Francisco this month set the standard for the Summer Tour, but we’re confident that the East Coast will bring their “A game” for our upcoming events… Read more

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FrontierVille Surpasses 20 Million Users

Friday, July 16, 2010 7:31 No Comments

FarmVille creator Zynga has announced that its newest game, FrontierVille, has skyrocketed past the 20 million-user mark in just over a month.In fact, the game jumped from 5 million users to 20 million users in just 24… Read more

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Chrome Stable Release Gets Built-in Flash Player

Thursday, July 1, 2010 2:31 No Comments

Google has enabled Flash Player integration in the stable release of its Chrome browser. "In March, we announced that we would be bringing improved support for Adobe Flash Player to Google Chrome," says Product Manager Jeff Chang. "Along with driving the development of a next generation browser plug-in API, this integration will eliminate the need [...]

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