{"id":352767,"date":"2010-02-22T21:40:02","date_gmt":"2010-02-23T02:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"Gizmodo-5477745"},"modified":"2010-02-22T21:40:02","modified_gmt":"2010-02-23T02:40:02","slug":"iphone-game-startup-ngmoco-raises-25-million-in-funding-snatches-up-top-developer-apple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/352767","title":{"rendered":"IPhone Game Startup Ngmoco Raises $25 Million in Funding, Snatches Up Top Developer [Apple]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cache.gawkerassets.com\/assets\/images\/4\/2010\/02\/340x_iphone-eliminate-pro-tbijpg.jpg\" class=\"left image340\" width=\"340\" \/>Since switching from paid iPhone game apps to a free-to-play model with in-game purchases, iPhone game startup ngmoco has managed to raise $25 million in venture capital funding. That&#8217;s enough to buy up another top developer and expand even further.<\/p>\n<p>Freeverse, the company bought up by ngmoco, is is behind paid iPhone games such as Skee-Ball, Flick Fishing, Flick Bowling, and Moto Chaser. There&#8217;s no word on whether the purchase will lead to a change in the sales model, but it&#8217;ll definitely lead to us seeing the familiar ngmoco logo even more. 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That&#8217;s enough to buy up another top developer and expand even further. Freeverse, the company bought up by ngmoco, is is behind paid iPhone games such as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-352767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}