Cherry Deals lets you buy real goods to get virtual ones
Virtual goods, whether you’re buying raspberries for your Farmville or any number of equivalent purchases, are a gigantic and growing source of revenue for companies trying to make money on Facebook and other social gaming sites.
Taking full advantage, Peanut Labs Media, a company helping social and massively multiplayer game companies monetize, just launched Cherry Deals, [...]
Week in review: Professor says Square took his technology, Facebook readies Game Dashboard
Here’s our rundown of the week’s business and tech news. First, the most popular stories VentureBeat published in the last seven days:
Professor claims Square took his credit card reading technology — Square is a promising startup offering a small device that lets anyone make a credit card payment from their mobile phone. But an associate [...]
Thanks for coming to MobileBeat2009!
Thanks to all of you who made it to MobileBeat2009 yesterday!
We had a wide-ranging discussion of the biggest trends of the day. One conclusion from all of the excitement: U.S. is leapfrogging Europe.
That’s not a conclusion made by us. It came from several Europeans (see story). Mark Curtis, of Flirtomatic, was another attendee from Europe [...]
SuperFan Combines Social Gaming With Fan Worship
There has never been a better time to be a “fan” online. Whether it be via Facebook, MySpace, or even through fan-based social networks like TopFans, fandom on the web is taking off now that fans have more ways of expressing themselves. Just look at the recently deceased Michael Jackson, whose Facebook page now has [...]
