Where will the next billion-dollar startups come from? The tech world and most VCs tend to be parochial, looking at Silicon Valley, maybe New York, and a few other hot markets like <a href="https://t
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The global virtual goods industry put up some very impressive numbers this year. From <a href="http://blog.games.com/2010/
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So there was this guy named Ken who was working a 9-to-5 at some giant software company writing tons of code for somethin
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We track a lot of <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/acquisitions?page=1">acquisi
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Every year the World Economic Forum picks a couple dozen or so up-and-coming technology startups
<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/cp_1257971793_45825v1-max-250x250-215x62.jpg" width="215" height="62" />It's only a day after one of the big three social game developers, <a
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After lengthy negotiations, Electronic Arts closed it's <a href="http://eu.beta.techcrunch.com/
<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/zyngaplayfishplaydom-215x69.jpg" width="215" height="69" />So much for the first generation of big Facebook/MySpace social application startup
Last week we reported the rumors that VC-backed Playfish, the social games startup which has had phenomenal growth, was in the process of being acquired by games giant Electronic Arts for $250 million
<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/cp_1256315750_play-215x143.jpg" width="215" height="143" />Last week <a href="http://eu.beta.techcrunch.com/2009/10/16/has-playfish-exited-to-
<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/playfish_blue1-630x246-215x83.gif" width="215" height="83" />When I wrote my <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/apr2009/t
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Casual gaming on the Web is quickly moving to the social networks, where people can play with
<img class="shot" src="https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/playfishlogo.png" alt="playfish" />Over the past year video games have begun invading every computing platform, from social net
If you glance at the top lineup of gaming applications on the Facebook or MySpace platform, you’ll notice an interesting fact. Not one is the product of a major gaming publisher. Instead a group