{"id":544985,"date":"2010-04-27T16:41:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-27T20:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phonedog.com\/2010\/04\/27\/google-acquires-game-maker-labpixies-for-25-million-ish\/"},"modified":"2010-04-27T16:41:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-27T20:41:00","slug":"google-acquires-game-maker-labpixies-for-25-million-ish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/544985","title":{"rendered":"Google acquires game maker LabPixies for $25 million-ish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/r.phonedog.com\/shared\/images\/2010\/4\/101491-1_labpixies.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"206\" height=\"111\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Who says you can&#8217;t get rich having fun? Or at least enabling others to have fun?<\/p>\n<p>Google has acquired Israeli startup LabPixies in a deal <a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2010\/04\/27\/labpixies-google-25-million\/\" >said to be worth<\/a> up to $25 million. LabPixies is best known for their multi-platform games, including the iPhone OS hit, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.labpixies.com\/gadget_page.php?id=10&amp;platform_id=19\" >Flood-It!<\/a>&#8221; They&#8217;re also pretty well known in tech circles for having churned out a boatload of other titles for iGoogle gadgets, Hi5, Facebook and other social networks and platforms. And now they&#8217;re owned by Google, so I kinda have this feeling they&#8217;ll be focusing a little more on the iGoogle and Android stuff and a little less on, oh Idon&#8217;tknow, iPhone titles?<\/p>\n<p>Look for a major push in casual gaming on Android devices over the coming months. I hope.<\/p>\n<p>For more on the story, check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.droiddog.com\/android-blog\/2010\/04\/google-acquires-labpixies\/\">Breon&#8217;s post over on DroidDog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2010\/04\/27\/labpixies-google-25-million\/\" >TechCrunch<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/7kpr3At1aOf2xQmqMRxGOcSnmDQ\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/7kpr3At1aOf2xQmqMRxGOcSnmDQ\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/7kpr3At1aOf2xQmqMRxGOcSnmDQ\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/7kpr3At1aOf2xQmqMRxGOcSnmDQ\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/phonedog_cellphoneblog\/~4\/ySA2xZZ1Z7U\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who says you can&#8217;t get rich having fun? Or at least enabling others to have fun? Google has acquired Israeli startup LabPixies in a deal said to be worth up to $25 million. LabPixies is best known for their multi-platform games, including the iPhone OS hit, &#8220;Flood-It!&#8221; They&#8217;re also pretty well known in tech circles [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":671,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-544985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544985","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\/671"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=544985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544985\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}