Monster Life Review (iOS, Android)
Monster Life is Gameloft's answer to Pokemon for iOS and Android, where the object is to discover and train monsters, then compete against rivals in turn-based combat. It's both rewarding and visually...
View ArticleHow to Be in Business Forever: A Class On Sustainability
Last fall I wrote a post on Sustainability and ended it with this thought: I am tempted to develop a course on this topic. I think we need a lot more of this type of thinking in business. It seems in...
View ArticleMonster Life Cheats And Tips
If you're in the mood for a quality Pokemon clone for iOS and Android, perhaps Monster Life is right for you. This free-to-play title from Gameloft lets you train and obsess over a variety of adorable...
View ArticleSamsung Is Accused Of Child Abuse At Its Manufacturing Facilities
Aug. 7 (Bloomberg) -- A Chinese company that assembles devices for Samsung Electronics Co. hired children at its production facilities and forced employees to work excessive hours, violating labor...
View ArticleEntrepreneurs With 'Founder's Disease' Will Make Any Investor Run Away
Awhile back, a pair of entrepreneurs—I’ll call them Jen and Jeff—approached me seeking advice on launching their new business. They were looking for help in formulating their go-to-market strategy,...
View ArticleNihilumbra Review (iPhone, iPad)
If you were going to describe Nihilumbra in very nuts-and-bolts terms, writing the blurb for an App Store entry perhaps, you might say something like: "Nihilumbra is a side-scrolling platform...
View ArticleNintendo 3DS XL Review: Bigger Is Better
Here's some advice: If you currently own a Nintendo 3DS and can't decide whether to make the jump to the new 3DS XL, do yourself a favor and avoid this new system at all costs. Not because it's bad,...
View ArticleHere We Go Again: The Gray Market in Twitter and Facebook
So, casually reading through this Fast Company story about sexy femle Twitter bots, I come across this astounding, unsubstantiated claim: My goal was to draw a straight line from a Twitter bot to the...
View Article5 Ways to Save Big at Whole Foods
Everyone loves Whole Foods but grabbing a bargain there can be a chore itself. It’s difficult to find discount codes or coupons from sites like Retailmenot, Slickdeals, Fat Wallet, Ben’s Bargains, and...
View ArticleFacebook's Stock Plunge Has Robbed Goldman Sachs And Microsoft Of Big Gains...
Facebook Inc.’s stock plunge has robbed Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Microsoft Corp. of much of the potential gain they could unlock as soon as this week, when a ban on sales of insiders’ shares...
View ArticleWizorb Review (iPhone, iPad)
What I find myself craving these days isn't even necessarily innovation, just the bringing together of two different worlds for no other reason than to see what happens. A hybrid of old-school...
View ArticleCommando Jack Interview With Colossal Games' Charles Burt
The release of Commando Jack last month brought a brand-new hybrid for us to play with: a first-person shooter mixed together with the always-reliable mobile tower-defense game. It's a cracking...
View ArticleHappy Squirrels Review (iPhone, iPad)
Assuming this isn't your first tower-building game, you'll already be very familiar with the core gameplay of Happy Squirrels. First you choose to construct a floor, then you choose the building type,...
View ArticleAirport City HD Review (iPad)
Considering how huge Airport City is/was on Android, with over 230,000 five-star reviews, we're surprised it took Game Insight several months to bring its freemium title to the App Store, especially...
View ArticleAirport City HD Cheats And Tips
Game Insight's Airport City HD is unique because it's both an airport and city builder in one; the fact that it's free-to-play boosts the appeal even further. This means you need to constantly...
View ArticleSocial Will Move Mobile Payments to the Next Level
The new Starbucks-Square mobile payments partnership is an opportunity for Twitter and Facebook to leverage their developing mobile ad platforms, geo-targeting features and itinerant user base into...
View ArticlePitfall creator: Zynga gives the casual market a bad name
By Rachel Weber David Crane, one of Activision's founders and the man who created Pitfall, has taken a swipe at social gaming giant Zynga in a recent interview. "If you ask someone what they thought a...
View ArticleStudy names GameStop as 10th worst place to work in US
By Dan Pearson A US study utilising employee submitted data has named GameSpot as the tenth worst place to work in the USA. Website 24/7 Wall St. used information fromGlassdoor, which allows employees...
View ArticleOpen Protocols
My partner Albert wrote a great post yesterday that I'd like to highlight. His going in assertion is: It would a huge benefit to society if we can get with social networking to where we are with email...
View ArticleHow To Respond To A Cold Call Email From An Associate At A Big VC Firm
We have investments in a lot of companies that are growing very quickly. They end up on the calling (now emailing) lists for a bunch of VC firms who have an outbound deal flow program. These emails...
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