Robert Andrews
Oct 12, 2010 10:30 AM
Mobile games developer Ngmoco is selling to Japanese mobile social entertainment network operator DeNA, just three months after taking funding from Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Ventures.
San Francisco-based Ngmoco’s co-founders write: “ngmoco will lead DeNA’s efforts in the Western world.” (announcement)
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Tricia Duryee
Aug 11, 2010 7:52 PM
Ngmoco, the games developer focused on iPhone platform and venture-backed by the iFund, has gotten some unspecified funding from Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Ventures, TechCrunch reports, citing unidentified sources. The capital comes just several months after the San Francisco company raised a significant $25 million third round.
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David Kaplan
May 12, 2010 10:27 AM
In a sign of greater consolidation in the mobile gaming space, iPhone gamer ngmoco has acquired Stumptown Game Machine, makers of the pet simulation Touch Pets Dogs. The two companies have worked together in the past and collaborated on TPD for the iPhone and iPod Touch last fall. The acquisition…
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Rafat Ali
Sep 16, 2009 12:47 PM
Jason Oberfest, the SVP of business development at MySpace, has left the social network, and is joining ngmoco, the developer and publisher for iPhone games, as its VP of social applications, to lead its “expansion into the social web,” as the company puts it. He will be helping the company…
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