Google Acquires Social Gaming Company SocialDeck

Release Date 31 Aug, 2010 in PC Magazine

 
   

Google Acquires Social Gaming Company SocialDeck

PC Magazine - Chloe Albanesius - 31 Aug, 2010
Lending more credence to the rumor that Google is zeroing in on social networking, the search engine giant this week purchased social gaming company ...

Google Buys SocialDeck Mobile Game Firm

PC World - 31 Aug, 2010
Google shows no signs of stopping its social networking start-up shopping spree--it acquired social gaming service SocialDeck on Monday. ...

Google Buys SocialDeck

InformationWeek - Thomas Claburn - 31 Aug, 2010
The deal promises to strengthen Google's social competency and to address issues of app discoverability. By Thomas Claburn Google has set a new record for ...

The Google Deal Machine

New York Times (blog) - 31 Aug, 2010
In its effort to challenge Facebook, Google has become a social butterfly. The latest proof of that is Google's acquisition Monday of SocialDeck, ...

Google scoops up fifth company this month

Reuters - Nancy Gohring - 31 Aug, 2010
Google has made its fifth acquisition since the start of August, this time scooping up SocialDeck, ...

Google buys mobile-games developer Social Deck

MarketWatch - Robert Daniel - 31 Aug, 2010
TEL AVIV (MarketWatch) -- Google Inc., (NASDAQ:GOOG) the Mountain View, Calif., search-engine giant, continued to build its social-networking efforts by ...

First Angstro, now SocialDeck: Clues to Google's social media strategy?

ZDNet (blog) - Christopher Dawson - 31 Aug, 2010
Google has the cash to buy lots of great companies. But can they create a cohesive social network out ...

SocialDeck next for Google buyout

MCV - Rob Crossley - 31 Aug, 2010
Google is continuing to invest heavily in social gaming firms ahead of a widely expected reveal of its new games ...

Google acquires SocialDeck - Social Games Website

Weblineindia.com - 31 Aug, 2010
August 31, 2010 â€" Most of Google's latest attainments have been related to social networking and games, fueling conjecture that the company plans to make ...

Google buys SocialDeck. Yep, another social media company

TG Daily - Mark Raby - 31 Aug, 2010
Google has acquired a mobile social gaming company called SocialDeck, in what is just its latest addition to a shopping spree of social media startups. ...

Google advances social media aims with SocialDeck acquisition

Fiercemobilecontent - Jason Ankeny - 31 Aug, 2010
Google has acquired mobile gaming startup SocialDeck, the latest in a series of recent social media purchases as the digital services giant continues to ...

Google Broadens Its Social Networking Arsenal With SocialDeck

iSmashPhone (blog) - 31 Aug, 2010
If capitalism is geared toward centralization, Google seems bent on creating a feudal world order with its intense acquisition of almost every service out ...

Google Me: SocialDeck purchase hints at Google plans

ElectricPig.co.uk - Mic Wright - 31 Aug, 2010
Google Me is still just a rumour but the search giant continues to snap up firms that could help power it. It's already grabbed social app ...

Google Buys SocialDeck

dBTechno - 31 Aug, 2010
Google have just acquired their fifth company this month, snapping up mobile game maker SocialDeck. Financial terms of the deal were not released, ...

Google buys social game developer SocialDeck

TECH.BLORGE.com - Michael W. Jones - 31 Aug, 2010
Still close on the scent of social networking companies to put into its social networking arsenal, Google has purchased yet another ...

Google Buys Social Deck As Acquisition Spree Continues (GOOG)

Comtex Smartrend - Chip Brian - 31 Aug, 2010
8/31/2010-Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) acquired Social Deck, a company that makes social games and platform technology for mobile devices. ...

Google Acquires Another Company, Social Deck

ITProPortal - 31 Aug, 2010
In an effort to redouble the development of its own social networking platform, search engine giant Google has acquired SocialDeck which develops social ...

Google gets its own Game Center with SocialDeck acquisition

Mobile Entertainment - Stuart Dredge - 31 Aug, 2010
"We're super excited to announce that someone found our social games as fun as you have - in this case, ...

Google acquires SocialDeck

GamesIndustry.biz - 31 Aug, 2010
SocialDeck, the developer behind Shake & Spell, PetHero and Color Connect, has announced that it has "joined the Google team" in an acquisition deal ...

Google Buys Social Games Developer Social Deck

Geeky gadgets - Roland Hutchinson - 31 Aug, 2010
Google [GOOG] has been making a lot of acquisitions recently, mainly in the social networking and gaming arena, its latest purchase is a company called ...

SocialDeck Mobile Solice Gaming Company Gets Picked Up Buy Google [Google ...

TFTS (blog) - 31 Aug, 2010
It's no denying the fact that Google is currently one of the biggest names on the Internet and within the tech community. Founded in 1998, Google started as ...

Google picks up social game developer SocialDeck

Techconnect Magazine (blog) - 31 Aug, 2010
Continuing its shopping spree undisturbed, Google has recently acquired SocialDeck Inc., a company founded in 2008 that developed several games (Shake ...

Google acquires game developer SocialDeck

Bizjournals.com - Elizabeth Kim - 31 Aug, 2010
Social game developer SocialDeck Inc. said on its website Monday that it has been acquired by Google Inc. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. ...

Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) Acquires Gaming Company SocialDeck

Business and Finance News (blog) - 31 Aug, 2010
Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) acquired SocialDeck.com, a social gaming site that allows you to play games on a variety of platforms. The platforms include Blackberry ...

Google acquires mobile game developer SocialDeck

International Business Times AU - Windsor Genova - 31 Aug, 2010
Google released a statement saying it was impressed with the SocialDeck team's talents and games. The game maker founded in 2008 developed the word game ...

Google buys casual iPhone studio SocialDeck

Pocket Gamer.Biz - Jon Jordan - 31 Aug, 2010
With mergers and acquisitions activity dropping off in terms of Facebook developers, the focus seems to be switching to pure play mobile ...

Google Acquires Social Gaming Company SocialDeck

The Inquisitr - 31 Aug, 2010
If you've had any doubt that GoogleMe is a serious project at Google, that should be laid to rest recently with their host of recent acquisitions that ...

Google Buys Social Gamer SocialDeck

IndyPosted - 31 Aug, 2010
Google has been busy shopping lately, buying firms and start-ups that are players in the social networking niche left and right. ...

Google acquires social games website SocialDeck

Economic Times - 31 Aug, 2010
NEW YORK: Internet search giant Google has acquired social games website SocialDeck for an undisclosed amount, in a move to strengthen its social networking ...

Google Buys SocialDeck As Social Media Spending Spree Continues

ChannelWeb - Andrew R Hickey - 31 Aug, 2010
Google has acquired SocialDeck Inc., a social games startup, marking the search giant's fifth social ...

 

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