Limelife acquires Tapatap to expand social apps for women
LimeLife, which makes mobile games and other media for women, said today it has acquired mobile media company Tapatap for an undisclosed price.
Menlo Park, Calif.-based LimeLife targets 18 year-old to 34-year-old women with what it calls lifestyle content. That includes games for women, celebrity style and breaking news, fashion and beauty trend news, entertainment, music and shopping. It is available on the company’s LimeLife.com web site and its m.LimeLife.com mobile browser site. It has a… Continue Reading
Tapatap rolls out version 2 of its mobile gaming service
Mobile gaming 1.0 is giving way to mobile gaming 2.0, says Isaac Babbs, CEO of Tapatap. Today, the San Mateo, Calif. startup is unveiling version 2.0 of its contest and social gaming service, which includes games that let players upload pictures from camera phones and vote on who is the “cutest couple.”
For Babbs, 2.0 mobile games are games that have moved away from stand-alone downloads that players purchase directly from a carrier deck. They’re social gaming services that… Continue Reading
Tapatap yet another contest site, Wis.dm yet another Q&A site
Tapatap, a new online contest site, has launched, the latest in a slew of such sites. And Wis.dm has launched yet another Q&A site.
Tapatap, of San Mateo, is different, its team claims, in that it offers access to games from all places at once: Users can play via their mobile phone, from their PC over TapaTap’s web site, or via a widget embedded on someone’s blog. It also lets people create profiles and share with… Continue Reading
Tapatap raises $2.5M for secretive “mobile 2.0″ company
San Mateo’s Tapatap, a secretive company that says it wants to let people downloaded and share applications “for free and work seamlessly across web, wap, and rich mobile clients” has raised $2.5M in Series A funding from Gabriel Venture Partners, according to regulatory filings cited by PE Week.
The company says it is pioneering “mobile 2.0,” and is co-founded by three former Infospace execs, active in mobile gaming and social networkin: Isaac Babbs, Andy Riedel… Continue Reading