Social Gaming
Online as well as app functioning games, assimilating user data, while allowing users to trade virtual items in the games and purchase them with virtual currency. Games developers include Infrablue, Zynga, and PlayDom, while traditional games developers such as EA are also moving into this highly lucrative market.
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Amazon has launched Amazon Coins, its own virtual currency, and has given US Kindle Fire customers 500 coins for free. This is the equivalent of USD5 per customer and amounts to tens of millions of dollars overall. The exchange rate on Amazon Coins is ...
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