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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 team has introduced a major innovation to social gaming. They have the backgrounds that attract startup funding.

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Skate Where the Puck is Going

Both Sides of the Table

I heard from one smart source that years ago that Reid Hoffman had predicted the “game-ification&# of most Internet businesses. I’m not arguing that game dynamics in your business solution won’t be important or successful. I get the appeal and importance of this innovation in driving behavior. Fawking badges.

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The Last Gameboard raises $4M to ship its digital tabletop gaming platform

TechCrunch

Allentuck, who previously worked at Hasbro, said there’s widespread interest in the toy and tabletop industry to be more tech-forward, but there’s been a “chicken and egg scenario,” where there’s no market because no one innovates, and no one innovates because there’s no market.

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This Week in VC with Om Malik & Paul Jozefak

Both Sides of the Table

We talked about the negative effect of Apple’s closed system attitude but how that will be a gift to the market because Apple’s cracking of the operator hegemony has forced the industry to innovate. Competitors: Playdom , Social Gaming Network. We talked about Facebook. Read more: PaidContent. OTHER DEALS: 1.

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Riot Games and Konvoy Ventures back games publisher Carry1st in $6M Series A

TechCrunch

Africa’s gaming industry has lacked innovation in times past. “ We think social games and payments is the best first step to doing so, but we have very large ambitions. While we’ve seen companies try to change the narrative, most have operated as studios.

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Memory.ai, the startup behind time-tracking app Timely, raises $14M to build more AI-based productivity apps

TechCrunch

If the first wave of smartphone communications and the apps that are run on smartphone devices — social, gaming, productivity, media, information, etc. These days, however, it feels like the worlds of AI and advances in mobile computing are increasingly coming together to evolve that concept once again.

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Consumer investment fatigue

Tomasz Tunguz

Many of the promising marketing and media innovations of the past six years, daily deals, subscription ecommerce, social gaming and social media, have been struggling. Perhaps new mobile ad technology will enable social networks to flourish. This trend is plain to see from IPO performance and negative press cycles.