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And Omaha-based SkyVu Entertainment encourages volunteers to test its mobile game franchise Battle Bears.
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With over 500 million downloads of the casual mobile and online game franchise, Rovio is also aligning with major brands like Wonderful Pistachios, Google Chrome and 20th Century Fox.
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The risk to Microsoft lies in seeing its enterprise franchise undermined by mobile, as other operating systems are dominant in this one sphere where people and companies are buying more.
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Green Throttle Games was co-founded by Charles Huang, co-creator of the legendary Guitar Hero video game franchise, and mobile industry veterans Matt Crowley, former Palm and Nokia product lead, and Karl Townsend, lead engineer for the first two generations of the Palm Pilot.
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Keep in mind that this franchise launched in the mobile space and has built its audience without the help of Sony, Nintendo or Microsoft.
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Gameloft released multiple mobile games based on the movie franchise up until this year when Kabam took over the license with The Fast and Furious 6.
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Under pressure to defend its enormous Windows franchise from challenges by mobile devices running software from Google and Apple, Microsoft outlined plans for a Windows App Store Tuesday in San Francisco.
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The company had 23 employees and made money from selling mobile titles out of its Games with Friends franchise.
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Our With Friends franchise is defining social play on mobile where Zynga represents 3 of the top 5 most popular mobile games in terms of time spent in the U.S. according to Nielsen.
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At question is whether the company can muster the talent to either extend its dominant desktop franchise and architecture and put it into the hands of mobile consumers, or redefine its position in the category completely, in what is already a very fragmented market.
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