The Rise and Fall of China’s First Hit Social Game (The One Zynga Ripped Off as FarmVille)
Remember FarmVille, the social game that put Zynga on the map? That was pretty much ripped off from a Chinese game named Happy Farm, made by...
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Can Asia Take the Lead in the Next Generation of Social Games?
About the Author: Sangeet Paul Choudary writes regularly on strategies for online markets, and works closely with startups in these spaces i...
Serkan Toto on Why Japanese Social Gaming Giants Monetize Better
Serkan Toto, expert on social mobile gaming in Japan, has been kind enough to share with us a presentation that he gave recently on the succ...
Japanese Game Publisher Konami Joins Zynga as a Platform Partner
Social games provider Zynga (NASDAQ:ZNGA), in the wake of announcing its own social gaming space called the Zynga Platform, today announced ...
INDOMOG Aims to Solve Indonesia’s Online Payment Woes
Payment gateways have always been a curse for the Indonesia online ecosystem. We spoke with Wendy Vega, the founder and owner of INDOMOG whi...
Is Evernote the Anti-Zynga? Phil Libin at Disrupt Beijing
This is a part of our TechCrunch Disrupt 2011 event coverage. #15:05: And we’re back for another “fireside chat” sans the ...
Zynga To ‘Hire Aggressively’ For Its Bangalore Office
We reported back in March about social game developer Zynga and its plans to double its Bangalore office staff from 100 to 200 employees. An...
Zynga’s Chinese CityVille Coming to Tencent
Tencent gamers have news to be happy about today — Zynga’s CityVille is about to become available in simplified Chinese and will be host...
In Addition to Layoffs in US, Zynga Contemplates Closing Japan Office
Techcrunch is reporting that Zynga (NASDAQ:ZNGA) is laying off five percent of its full-time employees (about 160 people) and sunsetting 13 ...
Alvin Yap Talks about Monetizing the Feature Phone Industry [INTERVIEW]
Readers may recall when we discussed feature phone business opportunities in Indonesia with Andy Zain. Continuing that discussion, we spoke ...
Guess What? Tencent Clones Zynga’s Draw Something [LEAKED PICTURES]
No sooner has the smash-hit social game Draw Something been bought up by Zynga [1] than we hear that China’s Tencent (HKG:0700) has al...
China Has No Innovation? Look Closer
I gave a sharing session at the National University of Singapore last Wednesday about my experience living in China for a year. I am current...
HappySNS Builds Social Games On Facebook, Tencent, Kaixin. Has 30 Million Monthly Active Users
HappySNS is a social gaming company that build games for Tencent, Facebook, and Chinese social network Kaixin001. According to the companyâ€...
Ogilvy’s ‘Social Media Equivalents’ in China 2011 [INFOGRAPHIC]
Ogilvy’s Asia Pacific arm has recent republished its ‘China Social Media Equivalants’ chart. There are a couple of interesting updates...
Singapore Spends More on Facebook Games, But Some Not Aware of Virtual Currency
Online payment provider MOL has conducted an extensive survey among Singaporeans on Facebook to learn more about the nation’s social gamin...
Stream Media Partners With MOL For More Mobile Payment Options
Singapore-based start-up, Stream Media just announced its partnership with payment service provider MOL AccessPortal. Stream Media is the co...
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