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By: Japan’s DeNA is tearing up the US Google Play charts with the No. 1 and No. 2 grossing apps | My Blog

Tue, 13 Nov 2012 10:28:32 +0000

[...] relationship. The company is steadily amassing an impressive stable of game publishers. In 2010, it bought up Ngmoco in a deal worth as much as $400 [...]

By: Japan’s DeNA Is Tearing Up the US Google Play Charts | Egypt

Japan’s DeNA Is Tearing Up the US Google Play Charts | Egypt — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 03:50:17 +0000

[...] relationship. The company is steadily amassing an impressive stable of game publishers. In 2010, it bought up Ngmoco in a deal worth as much as $400 [...]

By: Founders leave DeNA’s Ngmoco mobile gaming division | VentureBeat

Founders leave DeNA’s Ngmoco mobile gaming division | VentureBeat — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 08:46:00 +0000

[...] company. That’s a big change for the organization, since DeNA acquired Ngmoco for more than $403 million in the fall of 2010 as part of its plan to move into the U.S. [...]

By: Founders leave DeNA’s Ngmoco mobile gaming division | VentureBeat

Founders leave DeNA’s Ngmoco mobile gaming division | VentureBeat — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 08:45:59 +0000

[...] company. That’s a big change for the organization, since DeNA acquired Ngmoco for more than $403 million in the fall of 2010 as part of its plan to move into the U.S. [...]

By: Why Japanese mobile company forth to the U.S.mobile market « motionBEAT US inc.

Fri, 26 Oct 2012 04:22:12 +0000

[...] -DeNA is buying Ngmoco for up to $400 million in cash(http://venturebeat.com/2010/10/12/japans-dena-buys-iphone-game-publisher-ngmoco-for-up-to-400m/) -GREE Buys Mobile Social Gaming Platform OpenFeint For $104 Million In [...]

By: DeNA’s Neil Young: You have to ‘iterate the f*** out of your products’ to win (interview) | VentureBeat

Fri, 20 Jul 2012 16:01:20 +0000

[...] particularly since he sold his San Francisco startup Ngmoco a couple of years ago to Japan’s DeNA for $403 million. Now he is leading DeNA-Ngmoco’s expansion as it tries to become a worldwide entertainment [...]

By: Japan’s DeNA grabs exclusive Transformers deal to boost its mobile gaming platform’s global appeal | t1u

Wed, 18 Jul 2012 05:07:31 +0000

[...] picked up US-based Ngmoco, the iPhone game publisher, in 2011 in a $400 million deal that established a beach head for the firm in the US. DeNA’s iOS games have been [...]

By: What is Facebook’s App Center Really About? | PlacePlay

What is Facebook’s App Center Really About? | PlacePlay — Wed, 30 May 2012 21:52:10 +0000

[...] Japanese companies, have made sizable purchases in the US to crack the North American market ( ngmoco & OpenFeint respectively). It remains to be seen whether they will have success; DeNA [...]

By: Neil Young’s path to the multibillion-dollar mobile social game market (interview) | UniBu | Technology News, Mobile Devices, Android Systems, iPhone, iPad

Mon, 19 Mar 2012 19:46:43 +0000

[...] Young sold his San Francisco startup Ngmoco to Japan’s DeNA for $403 million in the fall of 2010. And that was just the beginning of Young and DeNA’s quest to create a multibillion-dollar [...]

By: Neil Young’s path to the multibillion-dollar mobile social game market (interview) | Social Network Background Check

Mon, 19 Mar 2012 18:47:47 +0000

By: Neil Young’s path to the multibillion-dollar mobile social game market (interview) | VentureBeat

Mon, 19 Mar 2012 15:26:44 +0000

By: Alibaba to pre-load mobile gaming on its Chinese operating system | TechXpress

Wed, 14 Dec 2011 14:40:14 +0000

[...] attention when it purchased US iPhone development specialist Ngmoco for $400 million last year, as Venture Beat reported at the [...]

By: Alibaba to pre-load mobile gaming on its Chinese operating system | Tech News Aggregator

Wed, 14 Dec 2011 12:08:16 +0000

[...] attention when it purchased US iPhone development specialist Ngmoco for $400 million last year, as Venture Beat reported at the [...]

By: Mobile gaming industry ramping up | Gideros Mobile

Mobile gaming industry ramping up | Gideros Mobile — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 11:08:30 +0000

[...] Japanese based Dena bought NgMoco for $403M [...]

By: Gree files suit against DeNA citing antitrust law violation | Tech News Aggregator

Tue, 22 Nov 2011 08:09:20 +0000

[...] addition to being two of the largest social games companies in Japan, Gree and DeNA, which is the parent company of San Francisco-based social games company Ngmoco, are both preparing to launch major mobile gaming social networks worldwide, as [...]

By: Gree files suit against DeNA citing antitrust law violation | Startups List

Gree files suit against DeNA citing antitrust law violation | Startups List — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 05:33:31 +0000

By: Gree files suit against DeNA citing antitrust law violation | VentureBeat

Gree files suit against DeNA citing antitrust law violation | VentureBeat — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 17:31:16 +0000

[...] addition to being two of the largest social games companies in Japan, Gree and DeNA, which is the parent company of San Francisco-based social games company ngmoco, are both preparing to launch major mobile gaming social networks worldwide, as [...]

By: Japanese firms battle for mobile social game supremacy | Startups List

Japanese firms battle for mobile social game supremacy | Startups List — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 20:22:20 +0000

[...] their big new social platform. Japan’s DeNA bought San Francisco-based Ngmoco in 2010 for as much as $403 million. Neil Young (pictured), head of Ngmoco, predicts that the mobile social game market will produce [...]

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Wed, 16 Nov 2011 16:26:43 +0000

By: Japanese firms battle for mobile social game supremacy | VentureBeat

Japanese firms battle for mobile social game supremacy | VentureBeat — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 16:01:20 +0000

By: Mayfield Fund snags game investor Tim Chang as managing director | VentureBeat

Tue, 06 Sep 2011 22:33:09 +0000

[...] Chang made a name for himself as a member of the Forbes Midas List of top 100 venture capitalists last spring, mainly for his investments in Playdom, which sold to Disney for up to $763 million, and Ngmoco, which sold to DeNA for as much as $403 million. [...]

By: The road ahead in mobile games « HUBmarketing

The road ahead in mobile games « HUBmarketing — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 07:04:26 +0000

[...] the potential is there. That is why DeNA, benefiting from its strong base in Japan, was able to buy Ngmoco for $403 million. That seemed like an extravagant price to pay for Ngmoco, but DeNA saw a chance to become a [...]

By: Reflections on GamesBeat 2011 and the road ahead in mobile games | Online Games News | Game Central | Game, New and updates

Sun, 17 Jul 2011 14:41:30 +0000

[...] officer during DeNA, did a fireside discuss with the Wall Street Journal’s Yukari Iwatani Kane. DeNA bought Ngmoco for adult to $403 million final year as partial of a tellurian enlargement from Japan to [...]

By: Reflections on GamesBeat 2011 and the road ahead in mobile games | VentureBeat

Sat, 16 Jul 2011 15:02:09 +0000

[...] an officer at DeNA, did a fireside chat with the Wall Street Journal’s Yukari Iwatani Kane. DeNA bought Ngmoco for up to $403 million last year as part of a global expansion from Japan to the West. Young is [...]

By: The road ahead in mobile games | TechCrusher

The road ahead in mobile games | TechCrusher — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 17:48:18 +0000

By: The road ahead in mobile games

The road ahead in mobile games — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 08:24:45 +0000

By: The road ahead in mobile games | VentureBeat

The road ahead in mobile games | VentureBeat — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 21:41:30 +0000

By: Neil Young, founder of ngmoco talks VC value add « « The Equity KickerThe Equity Kicker

Thu, 07 Jul 2011 12:36:51 +0000

[...] founder of ngmoco talks VC value add ngmoco was a hugely successful mobile games business that exited last year for $400m and in the entertaining video below Neil Young the founder and CEO talks about some of what he [...]

By: Meet our all-star panel of judges for our game start-up contest, Who’s Got Game? | VentureBeat

Thu, 30 Jun 2011 13:02:08 +0000

[...] AdChina, Lumos Labs, and AllReach Media. Two of Tim’s big investments were Ngmoco, which was acquired by DeNA for up to $403 million, and Playdom, acquired by Disney for up to $763.2 [...]

By: ryanruudw3i

ryanruudw3i — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 23:07:52 +0000

Congrats Ngmoco! More proof of why the freemium business model and virtual goods are on a meteoric rise, fasten your seatbelts! We wrote a couple months back about Ngmoco's $100M+ valuation. http://bit.ly/ahLyPx