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.

CrowdStar raises $11.5M for mobile games but will lay off Facebook developers

CrowdStar, which is shifting from social to mobile games, has raised $11.5 million in a recent round of funding. At the same time, the company will lay off a couple dozen of its Facebook game developers.

These changes are a …

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 …