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Get Inside The Game Industry At GamesBeat2012 [EVENT]

Shiva Manjunath — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 04:54:57 +0000

The game industry as we know it is changing rapidly, with massive disruption, consolidation, innovation, and the arrival of big money across all platforms happening simultaneously. The industry leaders are transitioning from console games to online, from social games to mobile, and from the web to Facebook and other social networks.

GamesBeat 2012 — VentureBeat’s fourth annual conference on disruption in the video game market — is coming up this Tuesday and Wednesday in San Francisco.

The event will bring together industry insiders from the hottest social, mobile, online, and console companies to dig deep on crossover strategies as the market continues to shift across platforms. If you have any involvement in any capacity in the game industry, this is your chance to meet, network and learn from the very best.

That’s not all. We have snagged a 20% discount off list price for our loving oObly fans. Use the discount code “Oobly” at checkout and save 20%.

GamesBeat 2012: Who’ll Be There?

The List of Speakers at GamesBeat 2012 includes:

Mark Pincus, Founder, CEO & CPO, Zynga
Will Wright, Founder, Hive Mind & Stupid Fun Club
Bing Gordon, Partner, KPCB
Kristian Segerstrale, EVP Digital, Electronic Arts
Seamus Blackley, President & Co-Founder, Innovative Leisure
David Perry, CEO & Co-Founder, Gaikai
Jamie Berger, Vice President of Digital, Activision
Brian Fargo, Founder, Interplay Entertainment
Peter Vesterbacka, Mighty Eagle, CMO, Rovio
Neil Young, CEO & Founder, ngmoco
Tim Schafer, President & CEO, Double Fine Productions
Gordon Bellamy, Executive Director, IDGA
Chris Petrovic, GM of Digital Ventures, GameStop
Tim Merel, Managing Director, Digi-Capital

Check out the full speaker list here, and the agenda here.

On top of all this, the “Who’s Got Game” Startup Competition will uncover 6 of the hottest new startups in the game industry as they make their pitches live onstage in front of an expert panel of judges.

VentureBeat has also partnered with Zynga for the opening party on the evening of the 10th. Taking place at Zynga Headquarters, this party is sure to keep the fun going with food, drinks, photoboothing, and plenty of games!

VentureBeat promises 2 full days of action-packed sessions and high-level networking. Over 500+ executives, developers, investors, and press from all sectors of the gaming ecosystem are expected to attend the event.

Don’t miss it! Grab your tickets here with discount code “Oobly” and save 20%. There are only a few seats left!

Google And Noca.com To Present At The 1st Bay Area Finance Startups Meetup

Shiva Manjunath — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 18:54:40 +0000

Google will share it’s experiences in marketing for Financial Services technology companies, while Noca, a startup building a new online payment system will demo their solution at the first even Bay Area Finance Startups meetup event here in San Francisco.

The event is free and open to the public, but you have to RSVP here on the Bay Area Finance Startups meetup page for the event. The event will take place in downtown San Francisco close to all major public transportation at NextSpace Coworking.

Vincent Turner, an Aussie entrepreneur, started the meetup to highlight startup companies and apps that are working in the Finance domain. So this could be anything from Personal finance, to banking or mortgages, credit management, as well as payment APIs and payment solutions for developers, websites and small business owners.

Vincent is himself working on Planwise.com, a startup based here in San Francisco that seeks to help consumers better understand the future financial impact of the decisions they make today, especially decisions involving a credit product.

I am excited about this meetup group and here’s hoping they will have many more finance startups and apps in the future showing off what they have built!

Google I/O 2012 Dates And Venue Announced! Save The Date!

Shiva Manjunath — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 22:57:11 +0000

Google I/O 2012 dates and venue are out! Google’s Monica Tran (Developer Marketing) announced it today on the Google Code blog.

The 2012 Google I/O Developer Conference will take place in San Francisco at the Moscone Center West on April 24th and April 25.

Last year, the Google I/O tickets sold out within 1 hour of the sale going live. This year, I wonder how long they will last. What do you think?

oObly will be bringing you breaking news live coverage of Google IO 2012! Meanwhile, checkout our archives from last year.

[ photo: Flickr / Luis Andrei Muñoz : Google IO 2010]

Get Inside The Business Of HyperLocal At The Street Fight Summit 2011!

Shiva Manjunath — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 18:29:24 +0000

In March of this year,Ben Wood, Google’s head of Reseller Partnerships for North America reported that 1 in every 5 Internet searches focuses on local places and topics; 1 in 3 over mobile devices. JiWire also reported that 57% of consumers are more likely to engage with an ad if it is relevant to their location. It is quite clear that 2011 will be looked back upon as the year that location based services and apps reached a turning point. (That and the year that Apple’s Steve Jobs’ passed away.)

As the battle to disrupt and dominate location through daily deals, location-based services, apps and hyperlocal publishing continues, Street Fight was born in April 2011 in New York City with the primary goal of being the news analysis site tracking the hyperlocal industry. Street Fight is co-founded by Laura Rich (formerly of Recessionwire, Portfolio.com and The Industry Standard) and David Hirschman.

In two weeks, Rich and Hirschman will host the first ever worldwide Street Fight Summit, a 2-day conference in New York City on October 25-26 where leaders from Yipit, Foursquare, Gilt City, Patch, Topix, Curbed, and others will convene to discuss the burgeoning hyperlocal marketplace. With old media trying to figure out how to save their local markets, and small indie blogs feeling indignant about corporate media encroaching on their space, all parties have a big stake in the sustainable business models that will survive in the hyperlocal marketplace and the Street Fight Summit becomes increasingly relevant.

Whether you are a startup or a traditional media or brand, if you are doing business in the hyperlocal space, you do not wanna miss this conference. The Street Fight Summit 2011 schedule is designed with you in mind and will help you develop strategies and ideas for succeeding in this new and exciting space.

The Tickets for the 2 day event cost 599$ and can be purchased here.

For details on the speakers, panels and sessions, checkout the Street Fight Summit 2011 Section on Street Fight.

The 2nd Annual MeeGo Conference Is ON Next Week!

Shiva Manjunath — Sat, 21 May 2011 00:51:03 +0000

MeeGo is a Linux-based open source operating system for small form factor devices – think tablets, handheld devices, in-vehicle infotainment systems, smart TVs and netbooks. Established in February 2010 as a Linux Foundation project, the MeeGo project brings together the Moblin project, headed up by Intel, and Maemo, by Nokia, into a single open source activity. The platform has gained a significant following of vibrant and active community of developers, enthusiasts, and users.
The MeeGo community looks to capitalize on its momentum by hosting a 3-day Meego Conference in San Francisco, California from May 23-25th, 2011.

Let's Go MeeGo!

This is the 2nd such Conference held by Meego. The Conference is FREE to attend and will be held at the downtown Hyatt Regency in San Francisco, CA, on May 23-25th, 2011.

MeeGo Conference Agenda

MeeGo Conference runs from Monday, May 23rd through Wednesday May 25th, 2011.
Besides this, the organizers are holding pre-event “Meego Conference Warm-ups” all weekend on Saturday, May 21st and Sunday May22nd that promises two full days of workshops, tutorials, and fun, all completely FREE!

For a detailed agenda and sessions schedule visit the program page at sf2011.meego.com/program

MeeGo Conference Tickets

MeeGo Conference is FREE, but you still have to register as 1 of 4 different types of attendees.

Sponsor Company Attendee
Speaker
General attendee
General attendee

MeeGo Conference Location, Address

The MeeGo Conference is taking place in downtown San Francisco at the
Hyatt Regency Hotel located at
5 Embarcadero Center
San Francisco, California, USA 94111
Tel: +1 415 788 1234

Intel’s Bob Duffy on The Appup Program and Meego

Also check out our oObly TV interview of Intel’s Community Manager Bob Duffy at AppNation, where he talks about the Meego platform also.

Get Into The Social Loco Conference 2011 At Half The Price!

Shiva Manjunath — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 18:31:44 +0000

We have gotten our hands on a steep discount code for the Social Loco Conference 2011 that is set to take place here in San Francisco. A whooping 50% off. And here is the discount code.

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Use this code at checkout on eventbrite to get your 50% discount (a big savings of nearly 300$ from the full pass ticket).

Keynote speakers at SocialLoco include Marissa Mayer (Google) Clara Shih Hearsay (Facebook Era author) Dennis Glavin (Microsoft), David Staas (JiWire)Sumir Meghani (Groupon). Don’t miss it!

Meet Your Co-founder At The Next Founders Hookup

Shiva Manjunath — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 03:05:45 +0000

The next Founders Hookup – a match making event for tech startup co-founders – takes place Monday, February 28th 2011 online via Skype.

The goal of Founders Hookup is to set you up with like-minded co-founder prospects, where there is mutual interest to meet, for 20 minute speed interviews during which you can decide if you want to collaborate on a startup as a co-founder.

For details on how this event works, check out foundershookup.com

Founders Hookup – Tickets, RSVP

Apply online at foundershookup.com

Founders Hookup – Location, Address

Founders Hookup takes place online via Skype. For more info, contact event host Founders Hookup Ravi Belani at RAVI.BELANI [at] GMAIL.COM

Maximizing Mobile Apps – SF Beta 5.0.1 Event

Shiva Manjunath — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 02:50:05 +0000

This March, SF Beta – a monthly startup mixer event in downtown San Francisco – is bringing together 12 innovators in the mobile apps industry.

The March theme, Maximizing Mobile Apps, highlights twelve great startups that help you get the most out of the apps you make. If you make apps or utilize apps, come and see what innovation is happening with the apps platforms, mobile analytics, and mobile advertising services that bring more traffic, more users, and more efficiency.

SF Beta March 2011 – List of Companies on Demo Tables

The list is not public on the site yet. I’ve reached out to Chris for more info. Stay tuned.

SF Beta March 2011 – Tickets, RSVP

Get Tickets, more info here.

SF Beta March 2011 – Agenda

Free drink ticket for the first 150 attendees
Free appetizers from 5-6pm. (Early birds get the worm — or, in this case, the pizza.)
There are no formal presentations or talks. Instead, startups give demos at tables across the venue, throughout the night.

For more information, visit www.sfbeta.com

SF Beta March 2011 – Date, Location

Wednesday, March 09, 2011 (5 pm – 9 pm)
111 Minna Gallery
111 Minna St
San Francisco 94103

StartupCraft, A StarCraft II Game Tournament For Startup Peeps

Shiva Manjunath — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 06:30:50 +0000

IGN Entertainment (a division of News Corporation) is hosting StartupCraft - a Starcraft II tournament – for everyone involved in the tech startup scene. The tournament takes place on Saturday February 26, 2011 in San Francisco, California.

Startup founders and other peeps get to bond over competitive play while helping raise a little money for a good cause.

StartupCraft Tournament – Rules, Agenda

Doors open at 10:45am on Sat Feb 26th, 2011
Competitive matches start at 11am and go on until 5 pm.
Lunch will be served… Woot!

For a complete list of rules and regulations, check out the StartCraft FAQ page.

StartupCraft Tournament – Tickets, RSVP

The event is FREE (it looks like), but do register on the StartupCraft registration page.

StartupCraft Tournament – Date, Location, Address

Saturday February 26, 2011
IGN Entertainment HQ
625 2nd Street
3rd Floor
San Francisco, CA 94107
415.896.3700

( photo credit: memegenerator.net )