Mobile-and-social app analytics firm Swrve raises $6.25M (exclusive)

Swrve enables game publishers to test different outcomes and see which path leads to the best monetization.

Flurry’s knowledge is power as it raises a whopping $25M for mobile app analytics

Flurry-powered apps collect data from more than 700 million mobile devices a month.

In big social-casino bet, Playsino acquires Popover Games and Foghorn Games (exclusive)

Rivals Popover Games and Foghorn Games are now part of Playsino, reaching an even bigger audience of social-casino game players.

Playnomics launches PlayRM customer relationship management platform for games

Playnomics launches a customer relationship management platform for games that markedly improves player retention.

Activision taps Swrve for mobile game analytics and A/B testing

Activision Blizzard and Swrve are proving that mobile games are as important as those for consoles.

GamesBeat 2012 roundup: The Crossover Era, Ouya, the iPad as this generation’s console

The GamesBeat 2012 conference called on speakers from the hottest mobile, social, PC, and console companies to debate new ways to stay on pace with changing consumer tastes and platforms. Here is a collection of the stories out of this year's event.

Mobile industry bigwigs Tapjoy and Kontagent form partnership (exclusive)

The two mobile firms plan to help game developers increase user engagement and monetization with its new partnership.

Here’s what you’re missing from YouWeb and TapJoy at GamesBeat and MobileBeat 2012

We’re pleased to have YouWeb and Tapjoy joining in on the fun at MobileBeat 2012 and GamesBeat 2012 next week in San Francisco. YouWeb shines the spotlight on its portfolio of companies across two breakout sessions, and TapJoy CEO Mihir …

Casino games surpass farm games as the darlings of social networks

FarmVille took Facebook by storm in 2009 and gave rise to a sea of rival farm simulations. But those games have begun to decline, and they are giving way to social casino games according to research collected by analytics firm …

Kontagent raises $12M to expand social analytics into mobile

Kontagent said today it has raised $12 million in a second round of funding to expand its social analytics business into mobile markets.

Kontagent is one of the “big data” companies that takes an enormous amount of data generated by …

Kontagent brings social gaming analytics to mobile devices (exclusive)

Social gaming analytics provider Kontagent is bringing its analytics tools to mobile apps, the company announced Wednesday.

It’s typically harder to collect data on a mobile device than online. Social games that deliver data to Kontagent’s existing analytics program are …