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DeNA makes it possible for mobile game developers to reach huge crowds in Japan and increasingly around the globe.
DeNA's Mobage network is big in Japan, and it is expanding in the West.
The mobile revolution in games isn't over yet, but Ngmoco's founders have left their parent company DeNA.
Japan's DeNA mobile social gaming network has signed up a couple of key American game partners as it expands in the U.S.
Disney and Japan’s DeNA have agreed to collaborate on mobile social games to be launched on a worldwide basis. The deal is part of a larger entertainment collaboration.
Under the deal, both companies will collaborate to produce games for DeNA’s …
Neil Young sold his San Francisco startup Ngmoco to Japan’s DeNA for $403 million in the fall of 2010. And that was just the beginning of Young and DeNA’s quest to create a multibillion-dollar mobile entertainment group, he told VentureBeat …
Japan’s DeNA and China’s Sina have teamed up to form a big mobile gaming market.
DeNA is a $1.4 billion company that operates the Mobage mobile social gaming network with 35 million lucrative users. Under the deal, Sina will enable …
Viximo, a platform for cross-platform social games, is broadening its distribution reach today with the launch of its Social Zone platform which helps make mobile apps more social.
The company is attacking the problem of discovery, which is more difficult …
The Japanese are coming. In the wide open field of mobile social gaming, two large-scale Japanese companies, both of which have made major acquisitions of American firms, will soon be going head-to-head for worldwide dominance. Gree is expected to launch …
Mobile social games firm Ngmoco has hired a former Mattel executive, Michael Staskin, as its chief marketing officer. His job will be to ensure that the company’s broader ambitions of creating a worldwide mobile social entertainment network take off.
Staskin …
PapayaMobile, China-based maker of a mobile social networking platform for Android phones, now has more than 25 million users, up 940 percent since January 2010, the company said today.
More than 11 million paid transactions have been made using Papaya’s …
Mobile gaming firm Ngmoco has named a TV executive as its new chief operating officer. The move positions Ngmoco to offer broader entertainment on its mobile social gaming network.
The San Francisco company named Joanna Drake Earl, former chief strategy …
Japan is seeing a lot of action in the heavy rivalry between the two mobile social game networks DeNA and Gree.
DeNA announced today that it has launched its Mobage app, the Japanese version of Apple’s Apple Store, bringing its …
DeNA and its American subsidiary Ngmoco announced today they have launched the Mobage mobile social network in English-speaking territories around the globe.
The Mobage service sits on top of Google’s Android operating system and essentially creates a portal and social …
Ngmoco, the mobile gaming startup that was acquired by Japan’s DeNA last year, is preparing to launch its social network for mobile games in the global market.
DeNA already operates the Mobage mobile social network in Japan, where it has …
Neil Young is the chief executive of Ngmoco, the mobile game publisher that was acquired by Japan’s DeNA for up to $403 million last fall. But Young says that wasn’t just the end point for his company and its success …
Japan’s DeNA and its Ngmoco subsidiary plan to launch a worldwide mobile social gaming network starting in April. As part of that effort, Samsung‘s Android phones will use the DeNA Mobage mobile social network.
The mobile social gaming platform will …
