PlayHaven has more than 121 million monthly active users after making its platform free to developers.
In the week or so since she tweeted a picture of a joking developer that eventually resulted in his firing, her company SendGrid getting DDOS'd, her firing, and a host of sometimes-scary attacks online, she hasn't tweeted or blogged or spoken in public.
This morning Adria Richards broke my heart, and the hearts of all those who give a damn about women in technology.
Mobile gaming monetization company PlayHaven implies that it fired a developer for multiple issues, not just the sexual jokes made at the recent Python Conference that have stirred up a forest of controversy.
Editor's Pick The developer in question was fired by his employer, PlayHaven, after Richards posted his picture and a few details about what he said. VentureBeat broke the story last night.
Last night VentureBeat broke the story about a developer who was fired from his job at PlayHaven after being outted on Twitter for making sexual jokes during a conference. Today, the company where the person who outted him works is under a distributed denial of service attack.
Editor's Pick A Playhaven game developer was fired after making sexual jokes in the audience during a keynote session at PyCon, a conference for Python developers. Now Adria Richards, a developer evangelist for SendGrid, is getting rape and death threats via Twitter.
Charles Yim served as head of mobile application partnerships at Google.
Player-relationship firm PlayHaven is introducing its User Segmentation tool to developers.
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The monetization firm will use this latest investment to further build its developer tools and to expand internationally.
Playnomics launches a customer relationship management platform for games that markedly improves player retention.
Here it is: the first episode of GamesBeat's official podcast, BYOT.
The leaders of Kontagent and Tapjoy detail how mobile game developers need real plans to gain audiences.
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 …
Tandem Capital has raised a $32 million round to invest in early-stage mobile companies. The company has a large stable of big-name hands-on investors and a unique way of incubating startups that has led to a startling 90 percent success …
PlayHaven, a real-time mobile marketing startup that has enabled a four-fold increase in in-app purchases for its game developer customers, is adding new monetization features that will help developers make even more money.
PlayHaven’s new monetization features use analytics and …
Editor's Pick
Playhaven started life as a gamer’s social network. Then it morphed into making communities for mobile games. Now, after its third pivot, the company is focused on how to make money for mobile app developers via a real-time game marketing …
