The two social gaming execs were interviwed by Goldman Internet analyst Heath Terry .
But now the social gaming market is maturing and developers are building higher quality games.
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Now all of this was widely known and other social gaming companies took similar approaches.
Social gaming companies also need people to install apps in order to sell them virtual goods.
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Fliesler also worked at social gaming company Slide and then at Google when it acquired Slide.
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How popular will social gaming become on the Android and Apple iPhone mobile platforms?
Zynga made social gaming and play a worldwide phenomenon, and we remain the industry leader.
Zynga originally grew to prominence as the major social gaming company on the Facebook platform.
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And EA is not the only big game publisher to have eyed social gaming.
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Social gaming giant PopCap, behind such new classic casual hits as Bejeweled, Peggle and Plants vs.
Facebook initiated this social aspect of entertainment with social gaming, to the benefit of some games developers.
Ford entered the social gaming space this year with developer Talkie and his favorite organization, Conservation International.
This is the latest in a series of acquisitions in social gaming over the past few months.
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Zynga is the largest social gaming company in the world with over 230 million monthly active users.
OpenFeint is the largest cross platform social gaming network with over 68 million players in 4, 800 games.
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Lee claims well-timed investing in startups in Android, casual and social gaming, social networking and more recently, e-commerce.
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Gourmet Live is exploring new media business models by combining social gaming and premium real-time recipes and stories.
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Over the past few years, several massive businesses have emerged on the Facebook platform, mostly for social gaming.
Social gaming giant Zynga has had a time of it since first filing for IPO in the fall.
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Results confirm that social gaming is as unpopular among teens as we have ever seen in our survey.
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In the past few years, this "freemium" business model has become increasingly popular in mobile and social gaming.
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Social gaming company Wooga has quickly established itself as one of the most popular social game developers.
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Thanks to this investment from Earlybird, Peak is well positioned to lead this second wave of social gaming growth.
Meteor Games is going after the middle section of the social gaming market with its fantasy-themed games, Brandenberg says.
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In the early days of social gaming, developers could just build basic games.
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Social gaming, while growing steadily, faces its own challenges, mostly tied to Facebook.
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Therefore, it is possible to apply a lot of cutting-edge social network and social gaming-type analysis to the data.
Digital social gaming is indeed the future, especially revenues derived from huge community-based users, with virtual goods and monetization.
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The game that more or less started the social gaming revolution is back.
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Paul Tassi has an excellent photo retrospective on games purportedly cloned without permission by social gaming behemoth, Zynga.
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