ChamathPalihapitiya made his initial impact as an investor while still at Facebook, through stakes in Palantir, Pure Storage, Playdom and BumpTop as well as Tesla, Amazon and Slack. Chamath ...

Disney has dozens of apps for kids across multiple platforms, but some of those apps might lead to a class-action lawsuit. On Thursday, a concerned parent filed a complaint against the company for ...

Customers are notoriously fickle when it comes to sophisticated kitchen devices. On the one hand, there’s undoubtedly a market for items that are deemed useful and priced appropriately. Consider, for ...

Rick Thompson has made a lot of good investments over time which have generated around $6 billion in returns, roughly speaking. He is knowledgeable about games, as he is the former chairman of Playdom ...

If you’re curious to learn about the latest investment out of San Francisco-based True Ventures, you’ll have to be patient. Though the firm is disclosing that it has led a whopping $12 million Series ...

The forums Disney’s online interactive game platform, Playdom, have been breached. The company discovered the exposure on July 12. The data included usernames, e-mail addresses and passwords for ...

To apply for a trademark or service mark registration based on use of a mark, the mark must be “used in commerce.” Section 45 of the Lanham Act, 15 U.S.C. §1127, provides that “use in commerce” in ...

If you're surprised at the fact that people out there think social games are evil, than you must not talk to many gamers. Much of that popular opinion points toward the business model social games ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "I tend to think that those will not be very interesting in another two years, and they aren't social games," Thompson said to ATD ...

The GDC Europe 2011 schedule has been expanded with newly announced presentations. On the art side, GameSetWatch reports NetherRealm Studios' cinematic director Dominic Cianciolo will give a talk ...