{"id":536629,"date":"2010-04-21T09:04:06","date_gmt":"2010-04-21T13:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"tag:contentnext.com,2010-04-21:article\/419-news-corp.-buys-social-gamer-irata-labs"},"modified":"2010-04-21T09:04:06","modified_gmt":"2010-04-21T13:04:06","slug":"news-corp-buys-social-gamer-irata-labs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/536629","title":{"rendered":"News Corp. Buys Social Gamer Irata Labs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"border: 1px solid silver; padding: 4px; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 0; float: left;\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/moconews.net\/article\/419-news-corp.-buys-social-gamer-irata-labs\/\" title=\"Irata Labs\" class=\"image_link image\" id=\"86821_6114\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0;\" src=\"http:\/\/paidcontent.org\/images\/editorial\/f_small\/irata-labs-s.jpg\" alt=\"Irata Labs\" width=\"170\" height=\"53\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>News Corp. (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.paidcontent.org\/paidcontent?Page=QUOTE&#038;Ticker=NWS\" class=\"ticker\" title=\"NWS\">NYSE: NWS<\/a>) has acquired <a href=\"http:\/\/iratalabs.com\/\" title=\"Irata Labs\">Irata Labs<\/a>, a developer of social games across Twitter and Facebook. The deal&#8217;s terms weren&#8217;t disclosed. The San Francisco company is not expected to be folded into MySpace or game network IGN Entertainment, according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/entertainmentnewsbuzz\/2010\/04\/news-corp-snags-game-developer.html\" title=\"LAT\">LAT<\/a>, which cites unidentified sources. But Irata will be tapped to work with various News Corp. holdings when needed, suggesting that digital head Jon Miller has separate plans for growing Irata as a standalone. At the moment, the company says it&#8217;s developing a location-based platform for social gaming.\n<\/p>\n<p>Irata&#8217;s has two main products that it developed. Its most popular one is <em>Spymaster<\/em>, which debuted last year and is played mostly on Twitter&#8212;one of the few games that have emerged on the microblogging site&#8212;and on Facebook. The other is <a href=\"http:\/\/ilist.com\/\" title=\"iList Micro\">iList Micro<\/a>, which lets users turn Twitter into a classifieds section, allowing them to look for things to buy according to ZIP code or product type.<\/p>\n<p>The company consists of just three people&#8212;CEO Chris Abad, software architect Ben Myles and creative director D. Keith Robinson. About two years ago, the company received $1.5 million in initial backing for iList from Dmitry Shapiro, founder of the Veoh Networks (which <a href=\"http:\/\/paidcontent.org\/article\/419-veoh-lays-off-remaining-staffers-prepares-for-bankruptcy\/\" title=\"declared\">declared<\/a> bankruptcy and was then <a href=\"http:\/\/paidcontent.org\/article\/419-substantially-all-assets-of-bankrupt-video-site-veoh-sold-to-qlipso\/\" title=\"sold\">sold<\/a> to <a href=\"http:\/\/qlipso.com\/\" title=\"Qlipso\">Qlipso<\/a> earlier this month), Assistly CEO Alex Bard and Draper Fisher Jurvetson,\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"related\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/paidcontent.org\/article\/419-across-the-board-job-cuts-reported-at-news-corp.s-ign\/\" title=\"News Corp's IGN Cuts Jobs Across The Board\">News Corp&#8217;s IGN Cuts Jobs Across The Board<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/paidcontent.org\/article\/419-stealthy-ilist-raises-15-million-for-social-classifieds\/\" title=\"Stealthy iList Raises $1.5 Million For Social Classifieds\">Stealthy iList Raises $1.5 Million For Social Classifieds<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/JFj6zTEG_Djvml1x-6qS1RYLqXo\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/JFj6zTEG_Djvml1x-6qS1RYLqXo\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/JFj6zTEG_Djvml1x-6qS1RYLqXo\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/JFj6zTEG_Djvml1x-6qS1RYLqXo\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.moconews.net\/~ff\/moconews?a=Mfa0McB9JwQ:3OC8RcwUwpc:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/moconews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.moconews.net\/~ff\/moconews?a=Mfa0McB9JwQ:3OC8RcwUwpc:dnMXMwOfBR0\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/moconews?d=dnMXMwOfBR0\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.moconews.net\/~ff\/moconews?a=Mfa0McB9JwQ:3OC8RcwUwpc:7Q72WNTAKBA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/moconews?d=7Q72WNTAKBA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.moconews.net\/~ff\/moconews?a=Mfa0McB9JwQ:3OC8RcwUwpc:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/moconews?i=Mfa0McB9JwQ:3OC8RcwUwpc:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.moconews.net\/~ff\/moconews?a=Mfa0McB9JwQ:3OC8RcwUwpc:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/moconews?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.moconews.net\/~ff\/moconews?a=Mfa0McB9JwQ:3OC8RcwUwpc:gIN9vFwOqvQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/moconews?i=Mfa0McB9JwQ:3OC8RcwUwpc:gIN9vFwOqvQ\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/moconews\/~4\/Mfa0McB9JwQ\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News Corp. (NYSE: NWS) has acquired Irata Labs, a developer of social games across Twitter and Facebook. The deal&#8217;s terms weren&#8217;t disclosed. The San Francisco company is not expected to be folded into MySpace or game network IGN Entertainment, according to the LAT, which cites unidentified sources. But Irata will be tapped to work with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":681,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-536629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536629","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\/681"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=536629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}