Posts Tagged ‘Trip Hawkins’

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 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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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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Digital Chocolate Introduces NanoVerse

September 25th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial, Marketing Strategies | No Comments »

Digital Chocolate's CEO Trip Hawkins has unveiled their new virtual goods platform called NanoVerse. On it, they sell what they call NanoStars. Indeed, this is something new that they even patented.

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Industry Jokes, Where’s the Limit?

August 4th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Funbox | 3 Comments »

All over the industry, we have been pulling jokes on each other for years and most of them are funny. Who doesn't remember the famous animated handjob logo from Hands-On for example? This time however, the crew from Digital Chocolate got in serious problems due to a small joke from a competitor.

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Trip Hawkins on Innovation Through the iPhone

October 14th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Interviews | No Comments »

It is no secret that the iPhone is shaking up the mobile games market. Suddenly small developers get a chance to star on the App Store and competitors of Apple start launching their rival stores in the hopes to mimic the success.

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