Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=003de2fe-9371-4fc7-ab06-dcc3c24fc124&Preview=1 Date 8/3/2010 Company Name YouSendIt Mailing Address 1919 S.Bascom Ave. 3rd Floor Campbell, CA 95008 Company Description YouSendIt lets businesses, professionals and consumers move big files. If you know how to use email, you can easily use the YouSendIt service. YouSendIt currently has over 3 million registered users across 220 countries … Continue reading “YouSendIt Obtains $15,000,000 Series D Round”
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Provade Lands $3,000,000 New Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=f3024b41-7988-4c4c-a31a-bcb47aff4dd0&Preview=1 Date 8/3/2010 Company Name Provade Mailing Address 999 Baker Way San Mateo, CA 94404 Company Description Provade is a strategic partner focusing on Oracle eBusiness and PeopleSoft procurement applications. Website http://www.provade.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $3,000,000 Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds Purposes The company said it would use the funding … Continue reading “Provade Lands $3,000,000 New Funding”
BioMarin Scraps Muscular Dystrophy Drug
BioMarin Pharmaceutical (NASDAQ: [[ticker:BMRN]]) said today it has halted development of an experimental drug for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy after an early-stage clinical trial showed it was unlikely to be effective. While the result was discouraging for BMN 195, the company said in a separate statement that another drug, PEG-PAL, is showing “encouraging trends” in a … Continue reading “BioMarin Scraps Muscular Dystrophy Drug”
Lessons for Budding Angel Investors from Y Combinator’s AngelConf: Part 1
You’ve been a part of the startup world for a while, and you’ve had a successful exit or two. You have some money laying around that you don’t know what to do with. You feel a vague sense of owing something back to the technology community, and you want to keep a hand in the … Continue reading “Lessons for Budding Angel Investors from Y Combinator’s AngelConf: Part 1”
Floodgate Gathers $73.5M Fund
Floodgate, the Menlo Park, CA-based micro-VC firm run by “super angel” Mike Maples, has raised $73.5 million for its third investment fund, according to a regulatory filing published today. The fund has 11 investors, according to the filing, and is more than twice the size of Maple’s $35 million second fund, raised in 2008. Floodgate, … Continue reading “Floodgate Gathers $73.5M Fund”
Pancetera Gets $5M, New CEO
Pancetera, a Santa Clara, CA-based maker of software for managing backup and storage across virtualized environments, announced today that it has collected $5 million in Series A funding from Hummer Winblad Venture Partners and Onset Ventures. Henrik Rosendahl, the former head of Thinstall (acquired by VMware), has been named as the new CEO of Pancetera, … Continue reading “Pancetera Gets $5M, New CEO”
Complete Genomics Seeks IPO
Complete Genomics, the Mountain View, CA-based company with a new model for inexpensive gene sequencing, has filed a prospectus with the Securities and Exchange Commission to go public. The company hopes to raise as much as $86 million through an IPO that would be underwritten by UBS, Baird, Jefferies & Co., and Cowen & Co. … Continue reading “Complete Genomics Seeks IPO”
SV Life Sciences, Fresh from Closing $523M New Fund, Looking at Health IT Deals
While many venture firms are struggling in the aftermath of the Great Recession, there are a few outfits with plenty of capital to invest. SV Life Sciences, which has operations in Boston and the Bay Area, is one of those few. Last month the firm closed one of the year’s largest healthcare-focused venture funds, its … Continue reading “SV Life Sciences, Fresh from Closing $523M New Fund, Looking at Health IT Deals”
With Traditional M&A Players Still on Sidelines, Small and Mid-sized Businesses Have Unique Opportunity to Make Strategic Acquisitions
The recent economic turmoil forced rapid change on the mergers and acquisitions marketplace, as the tightening of available credit pushed traditional M&A players—primarily private equity investors and large corporations—to the sidelines and dramatically slowed existing transactions. The landscape yielded a dearth of profitable deals, with any residual motivation for investment in mid-sized firms deflated by … Continue reading “With Traditional M&A Players Still on Sidelines, Small and Mid-sized Businesses Have Unique Opportunity to Make Strategic Acquisitions”
A Rival for the iTunes App Store, a Data-Driven Dating Service for Facebook, a Pair of Social Gaming Deals, & More Bay Area BizTech News
What summer doldrums? The startup launches, venture financings, and M&A deals were flying about as fast as they come last week. —I got the inside story on OpenAppMkt, a new marketplace for Web apps for the Apple iPhone, from co-founder Teck Chia. The service, which went live on Friday, is similar to the iTunes App … Continue reading “A Rival for the iTunes App Store, a Data-Driven Dating Service for Facebook, a Pair of Social Gaming Deals, & More Bay Area BizTech News”
Pancetera Lands $5,000,000 Series A Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=fc87a5bd-e5ad-4ab2-88a5-5eea60016f0b&Preview=1 Date 8/2/2010 Company Name Pancetera Mailing Address 2953 Bunker Hill Lane Santa Clara, CA 95054 Company Description Pancetera, a provider of virtual storage optimization solutions, helps organizations improve operational efficiency and leverage virtualization investments for greater levels of IT performance and productivity. The company’s virtual appliance provides a new way to … Continue reading “Pancetera Lands $5,000,000 Series A Financing Round”
Rapportive Receives $1,000,000 New Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=03d59e4f-6225-4557-afe0-6ce7f6866ef4&Preview=1 Date 8/2/2010 Company Name Rapportive Mailing Address 153 Townsend St. San Francisco, CA 94107 Company Description Rapportive shows you everything about your contacts right inside your inbox. You can immediately see what people look like, where they’re based, and what they do. You can establish rapport by mentioning shared interests. You … Continue reading “Rapportive Receives $1,000,000 New Financing Round”
Gynesonics Obtains $15,591,000 New Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=281cce43-5238-4d09-babc-84a70b1be6d8&Preview=1 Date 8/2/2010 Company Name Gynesonics Mailing Address 604 Fifth Avenue Redwood City, CA 94063 Company Description Gynesonics is a private company that is developing a novel, minimally invasive system to treat uterine fibroid tumors, The VizAblate™ system. Gynesonics’ disposable, hand-held device combines ultrasound imaging to allow the gynecologist to identify fibroids … Continue reading “Gynesonics Obtains $15,591,000 New Financing”
mFoundry Secures $8,000,000 New Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=b844da03-c8ef-4848-b389-a421cc7a2345&Preview=1 Date 8/2/2010 Company Name mFoundry Mailing Address 60 E. Sir Francis Drake Larkspur, CA 94939 Company Description mFoundry provides the only equitable mobile banking and payments solution for financial institutions and wireless carriers. mFoundry’s Spotlight Financial Platform is a cross-carrier, cross-platform solution with the broadest device support of any competitor. Website … Continue reading “mFoundry Secures $8,000,000 New Funding”
Verient Picks up $3M
San Jose, CA-based Verient, which makes payment processing software for Web merchants, has raised $3 million in a round of equity-based financing that could total as much as $5 million, according to a July 28 regulatory filing. The identities of the funders have not been disclosed, but the company’s existing investors included DoCoMo Capital and … Continue reading “Verient Picks up $3M”
OpenAppMkt: The Return of the iPhone Web App?
Few people remember it now, but for the first year after the launch of the Apple iPhone in June, 2007, there was no App Store. The device came with a few built-in or “native” apps like a calendar, a clock, and a notebook, along with a couple of third-party apps like the YouTube player and … Continue reading “OpenAppMkt: The Return of the iPhone Web App?”
Silicon Valley’s TechShop to Open Ford-Affiliated Workshop for Detroit’s Next Generation of Inventors
Somewhere deep in Ford Motor’s institutional memory, it recalls a time before the strictly tiered, hierarchical business of making automobiles, when Detroit was a city of tinkerers, of makers, of individuals with dreams, talent, and a blowtorch. Today, harkening back to that legacy, Ford is announcing it is getting together with TechShop—a Menlo Park, CA-based … Continue reading “Silicon Valley’s TechShop to Open Ford-Affiliated Workshop for Detroit’s Next Generation of Inventors”
LS9 Reveals Key Biofuel Genes, Onyx Drug Passes Big Trial, Solazyme Seeks First-Mover Edge, & More Bay Area Life Sciences News
This week we had reports from a couple of the leading biofuel companies in the Bay Area, along with a noteworthy advance from a cancer drug developer. —LS9, the South San Francisco-based biofuel company, reported in this week’s edition of Science magazine how it discovered genes in cyanobacteria that it hopes will pave the way … Continue reading “LS9 Reveals Key Biofuel Genes, Onyx Drug Passes Big Trial, Solazyme Seeks First-Mover Edge, & More Bay Area Life Sciences News”
California Startup Carmakers, Aptera and Zap, Finalists in Automotive X Prize
And then there were nine. What began in April as a field of 136 experimental cars and 111 teams with their eyes on the $10 million Automotive X Prize has been winnowed to just nine cars and seven teams. Track testing was completed Tuesday at the Michigan International Speedway in Brooklyn, MI. The nine finalists … Continue reading “California Startup Carmakers, Aptera and Zap, Finalists in Automotive X Prize”
Softbank Bets $150M on Zynga
Zynga, the San Francisco-based maker of wildly successful Facebook games such as FarmVille and Mafia Wars, has picked up a $150 million investment from Japan’s Softbank, the two companies announced last night. The companies also unveiled a joint venture, Zynga Japan, that will develop and distribute social games in Japan, a market where Zynga has … Continue reading “Softbank Bets $150M on Zynga”
LS9 Shows Recipe For $50 Oil: Genes That Convert Sugar to Diesel in One Step
LS9 is on a quest to make renewable fuel at $50 a barrel, and today it is revealing at least part of the scientific road map it’s been following to get there. The South San Francisco-based biofuel company is reporting today that it has discovered novel genes from strains of cyanobacteria that are the basis … Continue reading “LS9 Shows Recipe For $50 Oil: Genes That Convert Sugar to Diesel in One Step”
Overshooting and Undershooting: Scale Venture Partners’ Kate Mitchell and Rory O’Driscoll on the VC Pendulum Swing
Part of the point of opening Xconomy San Francisco last month was to put our ear to the ground in the world capital of venture investing. Toward that end, I sat down earlier this week with Kate Mitchell and Rory O’Driscoll. They’re both general partners at Scale Venture Partners, a Foster City, CA-based firm that … Continue reading “Overshooting and Undershooting: Scale Venture Partners’ Kate Mitchell and Rory O’Driscoll on the VC Pendulum Swing”
Pelican Imaging Receives New Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=27b32da7-71ed-4ef9-8ec7-1aec05dfdd5c&Preview=1 Date 7/29/2010 Company Name Pelican Imaging Mailing Address 3929 Mainsail Pl Soquel, CA 95073 Company Description The company focused on commercializing computational cameras. Website http://www.pelicanimaging.com/ Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount Undisclosed Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds Purposes Proceeds purposes were not disclosed. M&A Terms Venture Investor In-Q-Tel
LearnBoost Obtains $975,000 New Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=0e1aeaf7-8c6c-465b-898c-55ee4d906c7d&Preview=1 Date 7/29/2010 Company Name LearnBoost Mailing Address Pier 38 San Francisco, CA 94107 Company Description The company has created an online greeting platform for teachers that allows real-time collaboration around grades between teachers and parents. Website http://www.LearnBoost.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $975,000 Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds Purposes This is … Continue reading “LearnBoost Obtains $975,000 New Funding Round”
Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation Annual Silicon Valley Summit
The Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation is holding its annual Silicon Valley Summit in Menlo Park, CA on October 27. Speakers include the JDRF’s Karin Hehenberger, Daria Mochly-Rosen of Stanford University, Beth Seidenberg of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, and PJ Utz, the co-founder of Bayhill Therapeutics. For more information on how to register, click here.
Protecting Consumers From Their Own Genetic Data Will Come at a Cost
Last week’s U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing into the direct-to-consumer (DTC) genetic testing industry was a vicious affair, with more than a whiff of the show trial about it. Representatives from testing companies 23andMe, Navigenics and Pathway Genomics faced a barrage of questions about the accuracy and utility of their tests, made all … Continue reading “Protecting Consumers From Their Own Genetic Data Will Come at a Cost”
Disney Buys Playdom, Adobe Buys Day, & More Mid-Week Deals News Around Silicon Valley
It’s been a busy week already when it comes to acquisitions and venture deals in San Francisco and Silicon Valley. There’s too much going on to write it all up separately, so here’s a quick rundown: —After operating for just two and a half years and raising $76 million in venture funding, Mountain View, CA-based … Continue reading “Disney Buys Playdom, Adobe Buys Day, & More Mid-Week Deals News Around Silicon Valley”
LearnBoost Bets on Better Tools for Teachers
San Francisco-based LearnBoost made a splash earlier this week with news of a $975,000 venture financing win. But much of the news coverage focused on the fact that four major venture firms, plus an assortment of angel investors, had participated in the relatively small financing round. To get more of the story behind the startup’s … Continue reading “LearnBoost Bets on Better Tools for Teachers”
Good Data Receives $6,500,000 Series A Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=57e72040-11c9-4316-9225-32d542f30648&Preview=1 Date 7/28/2010 Company Name Good Data Mailing Address 989 Market Street San Francisco, CA 94103 Company Description Good Data Corporation was founded with the mission to provide a platform for collaborative analytics. We believe that sharing and teamwork allows our users to move past isolated reports and arrive at the true … Continue reading “Good Data Receives $6,500,000 Series A Financing”
Soladigm Obtains $6,000,000 New Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=67bb7027-701b-4499-a873-5c9056a8c214&Preview=1 Date 7/28/2010 Company Name Soladigm Mailing Address 195 South Milpitas Boulevard Milpitas, CA 95035 Company Description The company provides switchable electronic glass technology. Website http://www.soladigm.com Transaction Type Debt Transaction Amount $6,000,000 Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds Purposes Proceeds purposes were not disclosed. M&A Terms Venture Investor Undisclosed
CloudMade Secures $12,300,000 Series B Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=bd04544f-c846-498e-8c7b-86b362ef585d&Preview=1 Date 7/28/2010 Company Name CloudMade Mailing Address 1370 Willow Rd. Menlo Park, CA 94025 Company Description CloudMade provides you with access to a range of innovative tools and APIs that allow you to make the most of map data. We source our map data from OpenStreetMap, the community mapping project which … Continue reading “CloudMade Secures $12,300,000 Series B Funding Round”
BlueArc Corporation Obtains $20,000,000 New Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=c2028119-c903-4a7a-b7e0-d1d2683a5082&Preview=1 Date 7/28/2010 Company Name BlueArc Corporation Mailing Address 50 Rio Robles Dr. San Jose, CA 95134 Company Description BlueArc Corporation changes the economics of network storage by helping customers manage more information with less effort. BlueArc’s Titan storage systems enable organizations to maximize performance and reduce operating costs through the movement … Continue reading “BlueArc Corporation Obtains $20,000,000 New Funding”
ANTs Software Garners $4,000,000 New Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=df24e0f4-b759-4a54-bcf1-62bc9f20273c&Preview=1 Date 7/28/2010 Company Name ANTs Software Mailing Address 71 Stevenson St. San Francisco, CA 94105 Company Description The mission of ANTs Software is to help customers drive down IT operating costs by consolidating hardware and software infrastructure and eliminating cost inefficiencies. To this end, ANTs develops and sells the ANTs Compatibility … Continue reading “ANTs Software Garners $4,000,000 New Funding”
Verient Obtains $3,000,000 New Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=08e433e3-7252-4ab7-a341-ad77129bb214&Preview=1 Date 7/28/2010 Company Name Verient Mailing Address 1190 Saratoga Avenue San Jose, CA 95129 Company Description Verient is a venture funded start-up with a blue chip executive team, strong intellectual property and compelling business proposition. We are developing solutions to drive convergence in identity, security, customer care automation and online payment … Continue reading “Verient Obtains $3,000,000 New Funding Round”
Qualcomm’s Technology Inside Ecotality’s Electric Vehicle Chargers
At the Xconomy Smart Energy Forum in San Diego just a couple of months ago, Qualcomm’s Manuel Jaime emphasized that 100-percent electric vehicles (EVs) like the Nissan Leaf will need to be integrated with EV charging stations—and the charging stations have to be integrated with a local power grid. Once they’re integrated, Jaime explained, EV … Continue reading “Qualcomm’s Technology Inside Ecotality’s Electric Vehicle Chargers”
$8.8M for BuzzLogic
San Francisco’s BuzzLogic, operator of an online ad network that targets display ads to relevant blogs, said today that it has closed an $8.8 million Series B venture financing round. The funds come from Adams Capital Management and Ackerley Partners, the same firms who supplied BuzzLogic’s $9.6 million Series A round. BuzzLogic also rolled out … Continue reading “$8.8M for BuzzLogic”
2Wire Picked Up by Pace
Pace PLC, the UK-based provider of digital pay TV technologies, said yesterday it will acquire San Jose, CA-based 2Wire, which makes the broadband cable modems deployed in homes by AT&T and other telecommunications companies. Pace will pay $475 million for 2Wire, which had raised nearly $200 million in venture financing since its 1998 launch, according … Continue reading “2Wire Picked Up by Pace”
Solazyme, Founded on ‘Delusional’ Idea of Algae Biofuel, Stakes Claim as Industry’s First Mover
Two teenagers arrived at Emory University in Atlanta as freshmen in 1989, and within days, they hit upon a “delusional” idea: starting a biotech company. Two decades later, it’s become a lot less delusional, as Jonathan Wolfson and Harrison Dillon have built South San Francisco-based Solazyme into one of the nation’s leading contenders in the … Continue reading “Solazyme, Founded on ‘Delusional’ Idea of Algae Biofuel, Stakes Claim as Industry’s First Mover”
Triangulate Raises $750K for “Data-Driven Dating” on Facebook
If you’re at least a casual Internet user, there’s already lots of information about you laying around in semi-public databases. Twitter knows what types of people you follow. Netflix knows what movies and TV shows you like. Foursquare knows where you check in. Pandora knows what kinds of music you like. Facebook knows who your … Continue reading “Triangulate Raises $750K for “Data-Driven Dating” on Facebook”
Greylock’s Henry McCance Part 2: Four Things Great VCs Do and Four Ideas to Guide Them
Every venture capital firm and every venture capitalist touts itself/herself/himself as adding value to the entrepreneur’s quest to build great companies. But when it comes to backing up that talk with action, few venture capitalists have the track record of Henry McCance, now chairman emeritus of Greylock Partners. I recently visited McCance in the firm’s … Continue reading “Greylock’s Henry McCance Part 2: Four Things Great VCs Do and Four Ideas to Guide Them”
Triangulate Garners $750,000 New Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=09450b7b-1273-4a53-9bba-6478ef41c358&Preview=1 Date 7/27/2010 Company Name Triangulate Mailing Address 230 S. California Ave. Palo Alto, CA 94306 Company Description We empower people to use their own data to make the world better. Our first product, Wings (www.facebook.com/wings), is dedicated to discovering who people are, what aspects of their personality are especially notable, and … Continue reading “Triangulate Garners $750,000 New Financing Round”
EPAC Technologies Obtains $6,000,000 New Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=07ae5682-3ccb-4fb3-8460-adb6046b5755&Preview=1 Date 7/27/2010 Company Name EPAC Technologies Mailing Address 2561 Grant Ave. San Leandro, CA 94579 Company Description EPAC develops automation technology for digital printing. EPAC operates on a service model, focusing on the elimination of waste in its customer book and collateral supply chain. This runs from the management of content … Continue reading “EPAC Technologies Obtains $6,000,000 New Financing Round”
BuzzLogic Secures $8,800,000 Series B Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=25293c4e-4221-45f8-a143-ea03e4a8477e&Preview=1 Date 7/27/2010 Company Name BuzzLogic Mailing Address 425 Brannan Street 2nd Floor San Francisco, CA 94107 Company Description BuzzLogic is a San Francisco-based on-demand software company that enables marketers to identify who is influential within specific conversations taking place in social media, and to use this information to better manage their … Continue reading “BuzzLogic Secures $8,800,000 Series B Round”
GameStop Acquires Kongregate for Undisclosed Sum
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=49648741-b1ff-4208-af14-3e1568913273&Preview=1 Date 7/27/2010 Company Name Kongregate Mailing Address 660 Mission St San Francisco, CA 94105 Company Description Founded in 2006 and currently in a state of heavy development, Kongregate seeks to create the leading online hub for players and game developers to meet up, play games, and operate together as a community. … Continue reading “GameStop Acquires Kongregate for Undisclosed Sum”
Walt Disney Co. Acquires Playdom for $763,200,000
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=661fb329-ce1e-4a0d-b998-989cbf773496&Preview=1 Date 7/27/2010 Company Name Playdom Mailing Address 100 West Evelyn Avenue Mountain View, CA 94041 Company Description We boast the #1 game on MySpace—Mobsters—and three of the top four applications. But it doesn’t stop there. Fueled by explosive growth on Facebook and an expanding pipeline of new games and features, we … Continue reading “Walt Disney Co. Acquires Playdom for $763,200,000”
$975K Boost for LearnBoost
San Francisco-based LearnBoost, which makes gradebook and lesson-plan software for teachers, said today on its blog that it has raised $975,000 in financing from Bessemer Venture Partners, Charles River Ventures, RRE Ventures, and Atlas Venture. The startup says it aims to take business away from established teacher software providers like Blackboard and Pearson with a … Continue reading “$975K Boost for LearnBoost”
Gilead Borrowing $2.2B
Gilead Sciences (NASDAQ: [[ticker:GILD]]), the world’s largest maker of HIV medications, said today it plans to sell $2.2 billion in debt securities that can potentially be converted into equity stakes. Half of the debt comes due in 2014, while the other half is due to be paid back in 2016. The company said it plans … Continue reading “Gilead Borrowing $2.2B”
Xconomy Syndicates Local Technology, Biotech News to The Bay Citizen
I’m extremely pleased to report that selected articles from Xconomy San Francisco are now appearing at The Bay Citizen, San Francisco’s nonprofit online news source. Under a partnership agreement worked out this month, The Bay Citizen will republish several Xconomy stories every week, bringing additional technology and business perspectives to to the startup publication’s already … Continue reading “Xconomy Syndicates Local Technology, Biotech News to The Bay Citizen”
Virtual Goods Conference 2010
Engage Digital Media sponsors a two-day event on how businesses can make money online through virtual goods sales. From the event website: “What a difference a year makes. Last year’s keynoter, Zynga, has gone from start-up to behemoth. Facebook is adopting its own virtual currency. Apple has implemented virtual goods in the iPad/iPhone/iTouch eco system. … Continue reading “Virtual Goods Conference 2010”
Toy, Game & Technology Summit
Engage Digital Media presents a conference on toys and games in the digital age. From the event site: “As innovation accelerates it is imperative that toy companies, youth entertainment companies and youth brands learn how to integrate digital technologies into their product lines. Conversely, Silicon Valley and the digital video game industry need to better … Continue reading “Toy, Game & Technology Summit”