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Does King Need Another Candy Crush? Probably.
King / Candy Crush Saga Candy Crush Saga maker King is preparing to go public, but one look at the “key metrics” in its SEC papers tells a seemingly simple story: The company is popular and...
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King Drops “Candy” Trademark Battle in U.S.; Other Trademarks Unaffected
King / Candy Crush Saga Candy Crush Saga maker King has abandoned its attempt to trademark the word “Candy” in the U.S. after acquiring the rights to a “Candy Crusher” trademark filed by Harrier...
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This Is Your Brain on Candy Crush (Video)
Last year, King grossed about $443 million in revenue from one game, Candy Crush Saga, according to its recent IPO filing. More than a year after it debuted on the App Store, its 93 million daily...
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IPO Could Value Candy Crush Maker King at up to $7.6 Billion
King Can a gaming company built on the back of one gigantic hit be worth 80 percent of gaming titan Electronic Arts? Candy Crush maker King Digital thinks so. King revealed in an SEC filing on...
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Cut the Rope Maker ZeptoLab Challenges King’s E.U. “Candy” Trademark
ZeptoLab / Cut the Rope Candy Crush Saga maker King already abandoned its attempt to trademark the word “candy” in the U.S., but now another major player in mobile gaming wants it to back down in the...
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Candy Crush Maker King Prices IPO Shares at $22.50
King Digital Entertainment, the maker of Candy Crush Saga, priced its shares at $22.50 Tuesday after the bell, according to Dow Jones. The gaming company says it will issue 22.2 million shares, giving...
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CEO Riccardo Zacconi on Why King’s IPO Isn’t Sour Candy
Courtesy King.com The name of King Digital Entertainment’s next production could be called Damage Control Saga. The company behind Candy Crush Saga, whose shares sunk below its opening price of $22.50...
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Some Gamers Fear a Dystopian Free-to-Play Future
Original image: Shutterstock / Latino King’s Tommy Palm thinks all games will one day be free-to-play and supported by micro-transactions. He may be right. King and its free-to-play competitors...
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King Stock Bumped Up by Tencent Partnership
News that Chinese mobile giant Tencent would distribute King’s Candy Crush Saga on QQ and WeChat in China sent the recently-IPO’d company’s stock up more than three percent today. Shares rose 60 cents...
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King Resolves Trademark Disputes With Two Independent Developers
King / Candy Crush Saga Candy Crush Saga maker King has resolved its trademark disputes with the developers of two independent games, The Banner Saga and CandySwipe. The mobile gaming giant had...
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The App Store at a Crossroads: Can Unknown Games Still Break Through?
Original image: iStock The first few years of the iOS App Store were, to use Silicon Valley’s most loathsome buzzword, disruptive. Game companies that once had only a faint footprint, like King...
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Candy Crush Gets Nationwide TV Ads in Japan, and They’re Super Weird (Video)
King King has opened an office in Japan and is letting its freak flag fly in an entertainingly weird TV marketing campaign. The new nationwide ads, which began airing April 17 and are in “heavy...
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Candy Crush Maker King Digital Has More Players, Fewer Payers
King / Candy Crush Saga King Digital took its time handing out it first earnings report today. But when it got around to it, the company behind Candy Crush delivered good news: Revenue, which had been...
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Candy Crush Decline Continues for King; Shares Fall
King Social and mobile game company King Digital Entertainment reduced its 2014 forecast after reporting lower-than-expected second-quarter revenue on Tuesday, as gamers continued to spend less money...
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Mobile Games Spending Still Growing, Especially on Android
Composite image by Eric Johnson; falling money via Shutterstock Gaming revenue on both iOS and Android is still growing, and as it continues to add market share, Google’s operating system is closing...
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King Beats the Street, Says There Is Life After Candy Crush
King Candy Crush Saga maker King beat Wall Street’s expectations in the most recent quarter, turning in bookings of $544 million and non-GAAP earnings per share of 56 cents, versus an expected $495...
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Free Apps Aren’t “Free” in Apple’s App Store Any More
Shutterstock/newart-graphics If you try to download an app like Clash of Clans or Candy Crush Saga from the iOS App Store, you may notice something different: They’re no longer called “free.” They...
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Digital Games Are Growing Up, Says SuperData’s Joost van Dreunen
Amy Keyishian for Re/code The worldwide digital videogames market totaled $49 billion in revenue in 2014, according to SuperData Research. And 95 percent of that dough came from mobile and PC gaming,...
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Most of Zynga’s Money Is Now Coming From Mobile
Sixty percent in 2014, and the company hopes to make it 75 percent this year.
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Less Than Half of King’s Revenue Is Coming From Candy Crush, and Wall Street...
Shares up more than 18 percent after hours.
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How Do You Solve a Problem Like Zynga?
Fire the CEO? Fire most of the staff? Or just get some different creative fires burning?
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Why Nintendo Making Mobile Games Is Such a Big Deal
Nintendo says the end goal is still to sell more of its own hardware -- but the opportunity is much bigger than that.
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Former King Exec’s New Studio Wants to Make VR Games for Mainstream
Tommy Palm, formerly the “games guru” at Candy Crush Saga maker King, is heading up a new virtual reality games studio called Resolution Games. The Stockholm-based startup, currently self-funded, said...
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King Beats, but Stock Drops Hard on Weak Outlook
Shares are down almost 12 percent as the Candy Crush maker warns investors to brace for a couple rough quarters.
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Candy Crush Veterans Raise $6 Million to Make VR Games for the Masses
Just don't call them "casual games."
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