Facebook touts why its social network makes mobile games better

The giant social network claims that players who find games on Facebook spend more time in the corresponding apps and are more likely to spend money on those titles.

Israel, you’ve got mojo, but where’s your Instagram?

Israel’s start up economy is hotter than ever. But a question haunts entrepreneurs there: Why are Israeli start-up hits generally so small? Where is their version of Instagram, the Silicon Valley-based photo-sharing company that Facebook just bought for $1 billion …

GamesBeat Weekly Roundup

Here are some of the stories that ran on GamesBeat this week. We’re running more articles exclusively in the GamesBeat section of VentureBeat, particularly when they’re mainly of interest to our game readers. The broader-interest posts will continue to run …

Israel’s Dragonplay raises $14M for free-to-play mobile social games

Israeli social and mobile game startup Dragonplay has raised $14 million in a first round of funding. The investors are Accel Partners, Entrée Capital, and Founder Collective.

This is a large amount of money for a Series A funding for …