SAN FRANCISCO–If you can’t beat them, try beating them another way.In 2004, Greg Tseng and Johann Schleier-Smith launched a startup called Tagged. They hoped to outdo another nascent project, known at the time as “thefacebook,” in the then-wide open world of social networks.We know how that turned out. Facebook became the world’s largest social network, with 1.39 billion monthly active […]
Zynga learned the hard way that relying on one hit game would kill a company if the farm ever went arid. Now King Digital is proving to be another disastrous one-hit wonder with their increasingly unpopular game Candy Crush Saga.http://valleywag.gawker.com/there-is-no-ev…“There Is No Evil Scheme Behind It”: A Q&A with Candy Crush Games Guru“There Is No Evil Scheme Behind It”: A […]
Zynga learned the hard way that relying on one hit game would kill a company if the farm ever went arid. Now King Digital is proving to be another disastrous one-hit wonder with their increasingly unpopular game Candy Crush Saga.http://valleywag.gawker.com/there-is-no-ev…“There Is No Evil Scheme Behind It”: A Q&A with Candy Crush Games Guru“There Is No Evil Scheme Behind It”: A […]
“Keep
calm and carry on.”Brad
McMillan, chief investment officer at Commonwealth Financial, keeps a copy of the
famous motivational World War II-era British sign above his desk but insists he
didn’t need to refer to it once during what felt to many observers like a stock
market meltdown throughout
the day Thursday.McMillan,
however, was far from hitting the panic button.“I’ve
seen things bounce up and bounce down before […]
By John Teti
Mar 27, 2014
1:04 PM
King, the studio that makes Candy Crush Saga, ran into unexpected costs after it started playing the stock market game yesterday. After getting King addicted to the bright flashing numbers and […]
Freaking Stock MarketPosted by UpsideTrader
on March 26th, 2014
I wasn’t myself until about 2:30 today. It took me that long to process the Gweneth Paltrow breakup. Candy Crush ($KING) died today and I know the CEO served me my pasta arrabbiata at the restaurant last night.So the Nazzy put in its third consecutive day under […]
An average of 144 million people were daily players of Candy Crush Saga and other King Digital games in February 2014. Photograph: Gabriel Bouys/AFP/Getty ImagesKing Digital Entertainment, the London games studio behind the mobile hit Candy Crush Saga, is to make history as the most valuable British internet company to join the stock markets after pricing its initial public offering […]
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