Agawi to use Microsoft’s Windows Azure to bring cloud-gaming services to Windows 8

Look for Agawi to provide streamed games to Windows 8 devices in the not-so-distant future.

YouWeb incubator founder launches Q&A forum for tech entrepreneurs

Peter Relan can't clone himself. But he can share his hard-earned advice for technology entrepreneurs, and he will do so at the new web site FounderQuorom.

iSwifter launches full-featured mobile Facebook app — with social games included — on iPad

The problem with Facebook’s mobile app is that it doesn’t run games. The web-based site is built with Adobe Flash, but that runs poorly on mobile devices. As a result, Facebook can display its news feed and photos on its …

A roundup of stories from the Game Developers Conference

Our GamesBeat team is exhausted after five days of covering the biggest show for game developers in San Francisco. Here’s a day-by-day roundup of the major stories that we wrote from the Game Developers Conference this week. We’ve also thrown …

iSwifter makes iPad game streaming available to all PC game companies (exclusive)

iSwifter found a niche for its cloud streaming service by enabling Flash games to run on the iPad. Now it is extending its platform so that a wider swatch of PC game companies can stream their games to Apple’s tablet.…

iSwifter’s Rover browser aims to change classroom learning

Startup iSwifter said that its Rover Browser for education has seen a quick start in downloads and rapid adoption among schools and teachers who want to use it to provide access to Flash-based internet content for classrooms. Since its introduction …

Adobe’s mobile Flash crash could benefit game streaming startup iSwifter

Adobe’s announcement that it is giving up on mobile Flash development is good for one particular startup: iSwifter.

iSwifter was founded last year to enable PC-based Flash games to run on mobile devices. The company runs the game on its …

iSwifter is the first to bring Flash-based Google+ games to the iPad

iSwifter’s innovative app for streaming Flash content to the iPad now supports Google+ games, making it the first app to do so, the company announced today.

The Youweb-incubated company has already found success streaming Flash-based Facebook games to the iPad, …

Social incubator YouWeb raises $2M

Technology company incubator YouWeb has spawned incredibly successful social and mobile game companies. Now the Burlingame, Calif.-based incubator has raised $2 million in funding for itself.

YouWeb is raising the money from existing investors to help fuel its expansion. The …

iSwifter on track to exceed $10M in revenue for app streaming (exclusive)

iSwifter, a company that streams Flash-based Facebook games so they can be played on the iPad, said today that it expects to generate more than $10 million in revenue in 2011, based on current bookings.

That’s remarkably good traction for …

iSwifter snags 500K users to play Facebook games on the iPad (updated)

iSwifter, the company that can stream Flash-based Facebook games so they can be played on the iPad, said that users have downloaded the iSwifter app more than half a million times since the launch of version 3.0 in June and …