Tricia Duryee
Jan 19, 2010 7:00 AM
San Francisco-based Boku has raised a sizable round of funding totaling $25 million to build a mobile-payments company that they believe can one day compete against financial institutions, like Mastercard, Visa, and even online providers, like Paypal. The year-old company has partnered with wireless carriers around the world to let…
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Tameka Kee
Sep 24, 2009 3:01 PM
Mobile and social entertainment company Digital Chocolate wants in on the virtual goods boom—so it’s launching NanoStars, a new game project that revolves around a set of over 100 virtual “characters” that players can buy and use in multiple games. The characters, which will be named after various pop culture…
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Tricia Duryee
Jul 27, 2009 7:48 PM
Booyah, the Palo Alto, Calif.-based company started by veteran game-makers and funded by none other than Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers’ iFund, has launched a iPhone app today called Booyah Society. Booyah’s CEO Keith Lee told mocoNews that the app is a grown-up version of earning a star for good…
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