{"id":567148,"date":"2010-05-17T16:15:01","date_gmt":"2010-05-17T20:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"tag:contentnext.com,2010-05-17:article\/419-crowdstar-hires-admob-exec-as-ceo"},"modified":"2010-05-17T16:15:01","modified_gmt":"2010-05-17T20:15:01","slug":"social-games-maker-crowdstar-hires-admob-vp-as-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/567148","title":{"rendered":"Social Games Maker CrowdStar Hires AdMob VP As CEO"},"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-crowdstar-hires-admob-exec-as-ceo\/\" title=\"Crowdstar\" class=\"image_link image\" id=\"115829_5117\"><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\/crowdstar-s.png\" alt=\"Crowdstar\" width=\"170\" height=\"40\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crowdstar.com\/\" title=\"Crowdstar\">CrowdStar<\/a>, the fast-growing social game startup behind <em>Happy Aquarium<\/em>, has hired Niren Hiro, an executive at mobile ad network AdMob as its CEO. Hiro, a former general manager at Yahoo (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.paidcontent.org\/paidcontent?Page=QUOTE&#038;Ticker=YHOO\" class=\"ticker\" title=\"YHOO\">NSDQ: YHOO<\/a>), joined AdMob in 2006 and had served as VP of business development at the firm, which is in the process of being sold to Google (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.paidcontent.org\/paidcontent?Page=QUOTE&#038;Ticker=GOOG\" class=\"ticker\" title=\"GOOG\">NSDQ: GOOG<\/a>). <\/p>\n<p>Hiro&#8217;s hiring comes as several of CrowdStar&#8217;s titles have taken off. The company is now the fifth largest Facebook app developer, according to AppData, and the startup <a href=\"http:\/\/games.venturebeat.com\/2010\/03\/05\/crowdstar-launches-rapid-expansion-to-gain-ground-in-facebook-games\/\" title=\"has said\">has said<\/a> it plans to more than double its staff by year-end. That growth has attracted interest from investors&#8212;and earlier this year Microsoft (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.paidcontent.org\/paidcontent?Page=QUOTE&#038;Ticker=MSFT\" class=\"ticker\" title=\"MSFT\">NSDQ: MSFT<\/a>) <a href=\"http:\/\/paidcontent.org\/article\/419-microsoft-reportedly-in-talks-to-buy-social-games-maker-crowdstar\/\" title=\"said to be circling\">was reportedly<\/a> in talks to buy the company.<\/p>\n<p>Hiro doesn&#8217;t seem to be replacing one specific executive, with <a href=\"http:\/\/games.venturebeat.com\/2010\/05\/17\/hot-social-game-firm-crowdstar-hires-admob-executive-as-ceo-exclusive\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed:+Venturebeat+(VentureBeat)&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\" title=\"VentureBeat noting\">VentureBeat noting<\/a> that until now CrowdStar has &#8220;run itself without a formal organization chart.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"related\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/paidcontent.org\/article\/419-microsoft-reportedly-in-talks-to-buy-social-games-maker-crowdstar\/\" title=\"Microsoft Reportedly In Talks To Buy Social Games Maker CrowdStar\">Microsoft Reportedly In Talks To Buy Social Games Maker CrowdStar<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/g9FKXSTRMhvHDcScWA77oYO1fBU\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/g9FKXSTRMhvHDcScWA77oYO1fBU\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/g9FKXSTRMhvHDcScWA77oYO1fBU\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/g9FKXSTRMhvHDcScWA77oYO1fBU\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.moconews.net\/~ff\/moconews?a=dGmiHMHuB7U:cXTyK6ewDOM: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=dGmiHMHuB7U:cXTyK6ewDOM: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=dGmiHMHuB7U:cXTyK6ewDOM: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=dGmiHMHuB7U:cXTyK6ewDOM:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/moconews?i=dGmiHMHuB7U:cXTyK6ewDOM:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.moconews.net\/~ff\/moconews?a=dGmiHMHuB7U:cXTyK6ewDOM: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=dGmiHMHuB7U:cXTyK6ewDOM:gIN9vFwOqvQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/moconews?i=dGmiHMHuB7U:cXTyK6ewDOM:gIN9vFwOqvQ\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/moconews\/~4\/dGmiHMHuB7U\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CrowdStar, the fast-growing social game startup behind Happy Aquarium, has hired Niren Hiro, an executive at mobile ad network AdMob as its CEO. Hiro, a former general manager at Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO), joined AdMob in 2006 and had served as VP of business development at the firm, which is in the process of being sold [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":679,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-567148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567148","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\/679"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=567148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}