Scoreloop, a subsidiary of
BlackBerry, was a cross-platform social gaming network for the
operating systems including
BlackBerry (Tablet OS and
BlackBerry 10),
Android
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Science and technology
* Android (robot), a humanoid robot or synthetic organism designed to imitate a human
* Android (operating system), Google's mobile operating system
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,
Bada,
iOS and
Windows Phone 7.
History
The company, based in
Munich,
Germany, raised US$2.8 million to help create the service that they founded in 2008. Early Investors included Earlybird Venture Capital and
Target Partners
Target Partners is a European venture capital fund claiming ca. €300 million under management. It is located in Munich and founded in 1999. The general partners are Waldemar Jantz, Kurt Müller, Berthold von Freyberg, and Michael Münnix.
Po ...
. In March 2010, Scoreloop gave developers that used its service the ability to monetize their apps using the company's services. The network was among the first to add support for
Android
Android may refer to:
Science and technology
* Android (robot), a humanoid robot or synthetic organism designed to imitate a human
* Android (operating system), Google's mobile operating system
** Bugdroid, a Google mascot sometimes referred to ...
apps.
During August 2010, Scoreloop revealed that its user base was growing by over 100,000 new users per day.
On June 7, 2011, Scoreloop was acquired by BlackBerry for US$71 million.
On July 8, 2014,
BlackBerry announced that the Scoreloop service is to be discontinued starting December 1, 2014 and encouraged all developers to remove all Scoreloop features and integrations from their developed games.
References
External links
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2008 software
IOS software
Android (operating system) software
Bada software
Windows Phone software
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