Yannick LeJacq

Facebook (Nasdaq: FB) and Zynga (Nasdaq: ZNGA) have revised their close partnership that has granted the struggling game developer a privileged position on the social network.

Nov 30, 2012

Holiday spending reached an all-time high, aided by surges in e-commerce for Black Friday and Cyber Monday, data indicates.

Nov 28, 2012

Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) nearly doubled Nintendo’s (PINK: NTDOY) Wii U first-week sales figures over Thanksgiving week, selling more than 750,000 360 units in the U.S. last week.

Nov 28, 2012

Apple’s (Nasdaq: AAPL) mobile operating system iOS surged back to the top of the U.S. mobile marketplace last month thanks to iPhone 5 sales, a new report from Kantar Worldpanel suggests.

Nov 27, 2012

New data from Quantcast has put Tumblr in the top ten most-trafficked networks, an achievement that the New York-based startup spoke of too soon by announcing that it had become one of the top ten most-trafficked websites.

Nov 26, 2012

Nintendo (PINK: NTDOY) reported sales of 400,000 units for its new Wii U console, bringing its hardware sales to more than 1 million units over the week of Black Friday.

Nov 26, 2012

Online sales jumped to a new high during Black Friday - casting doubt on the future of traditional "brick and mortar" retailers.

Nov 26, 2012

Toys R Us has warned some customers they may not receive preordered Wii U consoles immediately upon the product's launch Sunday.

Nov 17, 2012

Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) was granted a design patent for page-turning on its mobile devices this week by the United States Patent Office.

Nov 17, 2012

Scott Dadich, Condé Nast's vice president of editorial platforms and design, has replaced Chris Anderson as editor in chief of Wired Magazine.

Nov 17, 2012

Shares in the Wi-Fi networking company Ruckus Wireless Inc. sank Friday during the company’s trading debut on the New York Stock Exchange.

Nov 16, 2012

Sales of Activision Blizzard’s (Nasdaq: ATVI) "Call of Duty: Black Ops 2” topped $500 million in just 24 hours on the market, breathing life into a flagging console marketplace.

Nov 16, 2012

Twitter is preparing to appoint Hollywood media mogul Peter Chernin to its board of directions to replace Mike McCue, who left in August.

Nov 15, 2012

Cisco Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: CSCO) has announced plans to buy the cloud management company Cloupia shortly after reporting its fourth straight quarter of growth.

Nov 15, 2012

Spotify is introducing a beta version of its forthcoming browser-based app on Thursday, according to several reports.

Nov 15, 2012

Spotify has raised an additional $100 million in its latest round of fundraising including $25 million from high-profile investors like Coca Cola and Fidelity, the New York Times reports.

Nov 14, 2012

Facebook (Nasdaq: FB) has introduced a new "Pages-only" feature for users' newsfeeds to allow them to focus exclusively on the brands they "like" on the popular social network.

Nov 14, 2012

Zynga (Nasdaq: ZNGA) has announced another round of internal restructuring after its Chief Financial Officer Dave Wehner left for a senior position at Facebook.

Nov 14, 2012

Activision Blizzard’s (Nasdaq: ATVI) finally released “Call of Duty: Black Ops 2," its most important game of the 2012 holiday season, on Tuesday at midnight. But does the game live up to its impossible critical hype and enormous commercial expectations?

Nov 13, 2012

Bloomberg L.P. launched an app portal to allow third-party developers and clients to use their financial data and terminal service to build apps with a financial focus.

Nov 13, 2012

Investor confidence in Germany fell suddenly and unexpectedly for the Month of November according to a new survey conducted by the ZEW Institute, suggesting that the Eurozone crisis has finally hit Germany.

Nov 13, 2012

As Activision Blizzard’s (Nasdaq: ATVI) prepares to launch “Call of Duty: Black Ops II,” gamers are expecting to skip school and work to play the game expected to break industry records set by its immediate predecessor "Modern Warfare 3."

Nov 12, 2012

Blizzard Entertainment has been hit with a class action lawsuit alleging that the company's online security tools are deceptive and coerce users into paying more money.

Nov 12, 2012

Spotify is reportedly close to closing a $100M round of financing that would value that company at just over $3B, a $1B drop from its rumored valuation just six months ago.

Nov 12, 2012

Zynga Inc. (Nasdaq: ZNGA) has acquired November Software LLC and its development team as part of its renewed focus on so-called midcore gaming.

Nov 09, 2012

The Navy and Department of Defense have punished seven members of the Navy SEAL Team 6 for sharing classified information with video game developer Danger Close Games and publisher Electronic Arts (Nasdaq: EA) for the military shooter “Medal of Honor: Warfighter.”

Nov 09, 2012

Yahoo! (Nasdag: YHOO) has announced dual partnerships with GREE (TYO:3632) and DeNA (TYO: 2432), Japan's two larger mobile gaming companies and subsequent arch-rivals, to expand its mobile business opportunities through gaming.

Nov 09, 2012

Electronic Arts (Nasdaq: EA) is officially switching its flagship MMO "Starwars: The Old Republic" to a free-to-play distribution model next week on November 15.

Nov 08, 2012

Activision Blizzard Inc. (Nasdaq: ATVI) is partnering with YouTube to allow users to live-stream multiplayer matches of "Call of Duty: Black Ops 2."

Nov 08, 2012