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Overplay’s Wefunder Campaign brings in $1 million from Retail Investors, Funding Social Gaming AI-Powered Tech

American Entrepreneurship

Community Crowdfunding Platform brings multiple benefits to Social Gaming Startup Funding strategy plays an important role in how much and how quickly a startup receives funding. The capital will be used to expand Overplay’s team and accelerate product development and user acquisition.

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Gaming infrastructure startup Pragma raises $12M from Greylock, Mark Pincus and others

TechCrunch

Pragma is building what it calls a “backend as a service,” providing ready-made infrastructure to developers of online, live service games. Pragma is launching a starter kit today designed to allow developers to quickly set up and test game loops. Image Credits: Pragma.

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This Week in VC with Om Malik & Paul Jozefak

Both Sides of the Table

I made the point (not widely publicized) that OS4 is currently “breaking&# many applications that use ad networks that are not Apples (most notably AdMob, owned by Google). Online social game network; make their own games (FarmVille, Mafia Wars, FrontierVille) in addition to allowing third-party developers to access network.

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Epic Games to shut down Houseparty in October, including the video chat ‘Fortnite Mode’ feature

TechCrunch

Last year, Epic Games integrated Houseparty with Fortnite, initially to allow gamers to see live feeds from friends while gaming, then later adding support to livestream gameplay directly into Houseparty. 8 investors discuss social gaming’s biggest opportunities. Image Credits: Apptopia.

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From Agency to Enterprise Software: The Evolution of Buddy Media

This is going to be BIG.

Buddy Media was an amazing exit, but I never really thought of it like “enterprise software” I thought about it more like an agency that had developed off the shelf social tools around its service solutions. When I looked at the site, it had the term “Social Enterprise Software” written all over it.

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Skich’s new app brings social discovery to mobile game recommendations

TechCrunch

The company says it started off by gathering some of the most popular games on the app stores, then showing them to users as recommendations. Users can also suggest the games they want to see in the app. Skich wants to work more closely with developers in the future, but that’s not part of its current model.

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Skate Where the Puck is Going

Both Sides of the Table

Anyone who works in the venture business or frankly just lives in Silicon Valley will be used to hearing a buzz word rise up out of nowhere to capture the technology zeitgeist and find its way into every entrepreneur’s product development plan or every aspiring entrepreneur’s pitch deck.

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