Posts Tagged ‘Digital Chocolate’

Appitalism to Distribute Digital Chocolate games

April 20th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution | No Comments »

Following their extended deal with Selatra, Appitalism is now taking Digital Chocolate’s games on in’t decks for global distribution.

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Digital Chocolate Adds David Fox to its US Team

October 29th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in People | No Comments »

David Fox has joined our San Mateo headquarters team of Digital Chocolate and will function as the Vice President of the company and report directly to the CEO.

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Digital Chocolate Sues Zynga over Maffia Wars IP

August 26th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Brand Licensing | No Comments »

Digital Chocolate has announced that the company will sue Zynga over the use of the name Maffia Wars. According to DC, Zynga claimed the trademark while DC’s game was already out under the same name.

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Ilkka Paananen Leaves Digital Chocolate

June 10th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A, People | No Comments »

Though the news of his appointment only came out yesterday, Ilkka Paanananen has now announced to be leaving Digital Chocolate after six years of service for DC and four years for Sumea.

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Digital Chocolate Secures Financing

June 9th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | 1 Comment »

Digital Chocolate has secured several millions of dollars in their last financing round. The financing came primarily from Bridge Capital Holding, subsidiary of Silicon Valley based Bridge Bank.

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Digital Chocolate Generated 4 Mln Downloads on Ovi

April 14th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

Digital Chocolate is celebrating four million downloads on Nokia’s Ovi store. It is unclear at the moment how many of them have been paid downloads since Nokia is running promotions on the games.

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IO’10 Trip Hawkins – Digital Chocolate

December 17th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

Who doesn't know Trip Hawkins? He founded a mammoth in the gaming industry called EA, a console called the 3DO and this year, as CEO of Digital Chocolate, he invented the Omni Gamer!

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Digital Chocolate on App Store Discovery

October 23rd, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Marketing Strategies, Platforms: iOS | 1 Comment »

Digital Chocolate has generated 40 million downloads on the App Store and celebrated it with a blog post on how well their mobile games are discovered on Apple’s store.

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Trip Hawkins on Self-Published, Owned IP 1/2

September 16th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Over at DC's blog, CEO Trip Hawkins launched the first of a two part story in regards to self-published, Owned IP and the success of it in Apple's App Store.