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Video Interview: Opportunities and Pitfalls in Launching Your Own Virtual Currency
Mochi Media’s CEO Jameson Hsu has present a postmortem of their experience launching Mochi Coins, a virtual currency platform for game developers. He goes on what went right and what went wrong from a variety of issues ranging from developer implementation of virtual currency, design questions, and setting currency exchange rates. As games proliferate across social networks and other online channels, virtual currency and goods are quickly becoming the new frontier in online gaming.   [March 10, 2010]


  

Warner Music Group and Dailymotion Announce Video Content Partnership
Dailymotion and Warner Music Group have entered a new partnership to offer music videos via Dailymotion’s website in the U.S., Europe and North Africa. Visitors will be given unlimited, on-demand, ad-supported access to thousands of music videos, concerts and interviews from Warner Music’s roster of local and international acts. Under the terms of the agreement, registered users will be able to create and share video playlists. The first videos are due to be available within a month.   [March 10, 2010]


  

iTable Debuts at CeBIT 2010 to Revolutionize Your Living Room
PQ Labs Inc, developer of the Multi-Touch Screen G3 technology, unveiled the all new iTable 2010 on CeBIT (Hall 15, Stand F01). iTable is a multi-touch computer as well as an attractive furniture. Sitting elegantly in your living room, company’s lobby or a meeting room, iTable is a magical device that allows you to think, work and play with digital content & apps in a whole new way without using a keyboard or mouse.   [March 10, 2010]


  

Sometrics Launches GameCoins.com - Connecting Players to Online Games Through Interactive Community and Virtual Goods Marketplace
In a move that helps publishers of online games and virtual worlds expand their reach while giving gamers a place to swap tips and strategy with each other, Sometrics launched GameCoins.com - the company’s first direct-to-consumer play. GameCoins.com serves as a community site for gamers, where members can meet new gaming friends and participate in forums and blogs to discuss the latest tips, trends and news about favorite games and virtual worlds, like War Rock, Sorority Life, IMVU and many more.   [March 10, 2010]


  

Intuit Online Payroll Gives Small Businesses the Tools to Efficiently Manage Payroll via Google Apps
Small business owners now have a new way to easily and efficiently manage payroll and other key business tasks within one integrated online office environment. Intuit Inc. (Nasdaq: INTU) now offers its popular Intuit Online Payroll for Google Apps. This best-in-class online payroll offering is available to small business owners on the Google Apps Marketplace, Google’s recently launched online storefront for Google Apps products and services. Intuit Online Payroll will also soon be available on Intuit’s own Intuit App Center with Web applications designed for small businesses.   [March 10, 2010]


  

IDC Predicts Further Gains for Specialized Form Factors in 2010 PC Market
Many of the trends that influenced the worldwide PC market in 2009 will continue to resonate in 2010, but their impact will change as new market forces come into play. According to the International Data Corporation (IDC), the lower prices brought on by last year’s challenging economy will create new opportunities for emerging sub form factors, such as ultrathin portables and all-in-one desktops.   [March 10, 2010]


  

GameSpy Open to Tear Down the Walls Surrounding Games
During the 2010 Game Developers Conference (GDC) this week, GameSpy Technology, the video game industry’s provider of multi-platform online services, announced GameSpy Open, an initiative to open APIs for data and development services, making it easier for its partners on all platforms to add compelling online features to games, measure game performance and audience engagement, and collaborate with their communities. By opening up data and services, GameSpy hopes to tear down the walls around online game development, enable new business models and make it much easier for publishers and developers to harness the power of online and social innovations.   [March 10, 2010]


  

Magento and PayPal Expand Relationship to Drive e-Commerce Innovation
Magento, a global open source e-commerce platform, and PayPal are expanding their relationship to offer PayPal to online retailers through Magento’s open source shopping solutions. PayPal will be deeply integrated and promoted to merchants and developers using Magento’s service, making it even easier for businesses to get up and running with e-commerce and online payments.   [March 10, 2010]


  

Game Developers Conference 2010: Havok Highlights Innovative Usage of Expanding Product Portfolio by Industry-Leading Titles
Havok, a provider of interactive software and services for digital media creators in the games and movie industries, is seeing rapid industry adoption of its newer products including Havok Cloth and Havok AI, by leading game publishers and studios alongside the industry standard Havok Physics. Havok will be showcasing its entire product lineup in GDC Booth #BS224 at this year’s Game Developers Conference in San Francisco beginning March 10, 2010.   [March 10, 2010]


  

Acer Ascends, Dell Dives in 2009 PC Market
Acer Inc. in 2009 came within a hair’s breadth of supplanting Dell Inc. as the world’s No.-2 PC maker, as the Taiwanese computer maker achieved leading growth among the world’s Top-5 brands for the year, according to iSuppli Corp. No.-3 ranked Acer enjoyed a 21 percent expansion in 2009, with its global PC unit shipments rising to 38.5 million, up from 31.8 million in 2008. This represented the strongest growth among the world’s Top-5 PC makers in 2009.   [March 10, 2010]


  

Astral Media Radio partners with Emmis Interactive to super-charge its interactive business
Astral Media Radio, a division of Astral Media Inc. (TSX: ACM.A/ACM.B), has signed a long-term agreement with Emmis Interactive, Inc., a software and consulting company. Emmis will provide its successful interactive platform and proven sales consulting services to Astral as part of Astral Media Radio’s renewed emphasis on building out its Interactive business.   [March 10, 2010]


  

NAV CANADA and Searidge to Develop Video Solutions for Air Traffic Services
Global Stand H716. Searidge Technologies, provider of intelligent video solutions to air navigation service providers (ANSPs) and airports, announced its intelligent video platform IntelliDAR is being utilized by NAV CANADA to develop innovative video technology applications for airport surface surveillance and remote monitoring.   [March 10, 2010]


  

Buy.com Announces New VP/General Manager to Support Re-Launch of Canadian Web Site
McMahon has been appointed vice president of sales and general manager for Canada. McMahon will be based in Toronto and heads brand strategy and development, web site traffic growth, and advertising and vendor relationships for the company’s Canadian operation. McMahon joins Buy.com with more than 15 years of sales experience in technology and information services.   [March 10, 2010]


  

Mochi Media Launches Platform to Power Distributed Social Games
Mochi Media has launched of Mochi Social, a new platform for Flash game developers to create and monetize high-quality distributed social games. With Mochi Social, developers can easily build social features into their games such as inviting friends, sending gifts, or posting to an activity stream. These social features follow the game wherever it is played, rather than confined to a single social network or portal, and plugs into users’ social graph across Facebook, MySpace and Twitter. Mochi Media made the announcement today at the company’s second annual Flash Gaming Summit, a conference focused on fostering the growth and success of the Flash games community.   [March 10, 2010]


  

Sony’s PS3 to Win Current Games Console Battle, says Strategy Analytics
Sony’s PlayStation 3 (PS3) games console will sell more units than its rivals over the lifetime of the current generation, according to new forecasts published by the Strategy Analytics Connected Home Devices service, ahead of this week’s Games Developers Conference (GDC) in San Francisco. Although global sales to date of the Nintendo Wii have exceeded those of the PS3 and the Microsoft Xbox 360, this report, “Taming the Waves: Games Console Life Cycles and Platform Competition,” predicts that the PS3 will still be a commercial platform five years after the Wii has been replaced. Lifetime PS3 sales are predicted to reach 127 million units, compared to 103 million Wii units.   [March 10, 2010]


  

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