Yobongo Raises 1.35 Million

MARCH 24, 2011 • Yobongo Inc. is a new studio based in San Francisco that just released an iPhone app by the same name. The app enables users to chat randomly with others in the same geographic area that have Yobongo installed. Following the launch, Yobongo raised $1.35 million from True.....

Interview Bigpoint & 3D Browser Games

MARCH 24, 2011 • Bigpoint GmbH is one of the major online game success stories, not only in its home territory of Europe, but progressively worldwide. Since the company was founded in 2002, it has attained lofty milestones along the way, including the world’s largest browser game provider servicing more than 170 million registered users. As an online game company to watch, attracting 250,000 new users a day in 25 languages, .....

THQ Announces Homefront Sales

MARCH 17, 2011 • In an earlier era, selling 375,000 units in 24 hours would have been major news for a new PC action franchise. Post Call of Duty, THQ found itself hard-pressed to garner laurels for its new Homefront game. The tally did not include Europe, where the game’s release was sl.....

Microsoft Zune Hardware Discontinued

MARCH 16, 2011 • After four versions of its Zune media player in five years, Microsoft decided there will not be new hardware in the series moving forward. Instead, the company will follow a software-only strategy to migrate its Zune business to other platforms. Impact: Microsoft has rarely proven to be a nimble innovator. With plenty of cash from its operating system and office suite business.....

Kaz Hirai Promoted at Sony

MARCH 11, 2011 • In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Sony Corp. chief executive Howard Stringer said the promotion of Sony Computer Entertainment head Kaz Hirai to oversee the consumer electronics division makes Hirai the leading candidate to replace Stringer some day. Impact: Kaz Hirai started in the music business but came on with Sony Computer Entertainment America right around th.....

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