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- Tap Tap Revenge 3 Downloaded 300,000 Times First 24 Hours After Going Free
- This Week On TechCrunch: Zuckerberg eaten by zebras, Al Qaeda invests in Twitter, Spotify profitable and more
- Polyvore's Virtual Styling Tool Aims To Be More Social With Facebook Connect
- Indiagames To Launch New Cricket Gaming iPhone App
| Tap Tap Revenge 3 Downloaded 300,000 Times First 24 Hours After Going Free | Top |
| Less than three months after launching its popular iPhone game Tap Tap Revenge 3 as a 99-cent app on iTunes, developer Tapulous made the game free a few days ago. The game was downloaded 300,000 times in 24 hours , overwhelming the Tapulous servers so much that the company had to turn off the online playing feature of the game. Tap Tap Revenge is now the No. 2 most popular free game on iTunes. Making Tap Tap Revenge 3 free is another high-profile bet on the power of in-app purchases . Tap Tap Revenge 3, which is a Guitar-Hero style game, comes with free music tracks, but you ca also buy new tracks through the game. So far, as a paid app, it’s sold about 1 million songs , but it believes it can sell a lot more by making the game free. The Tap Tap Revenge series of games have been downloaded more than 20 million times, and the company claims 4 million active users per month. Games do a better job than other categories when it comes to in-app purchases, although nearly all of the top-grossing apps in iTunes are still paid apps. But another iPhone game company, ngmoco, is shifting its entire strategy to from paid to free games with in-app purchases. It is not clear whether Tapulous is moving to this model as well, or launching new apps for 99 cents and then making them free once sales begin to die down. When it launches its next game, Riddim Ribbon, we’ll see if it is paid or free. If it is paid, one advantage of making Tap Tap Revenge 3 free now is that it can flood the market and then be used to cross-promote Riddim Ribbon. The shelf-life of an iPhone app is so short that it makes sense to sunset a paid app early to help push sales of a newer game. Crunch Network : CrunchBase the free database of technology companies, people, and investors | |
| This Week On TechCrunch: Zuckerberg eaten by zebras, Al Qaeda invests in Twitter, Spotify profitable and more | Top |
| The only good thing about the deadline for this week’s TechCrunch round-up falling on Christmas Day is the absolute certain fact that you won’t be reading the results. After all, with the holiday season in full swing, no one in their right mind will be reading TechCrunch. I certainly won’t. Safe in that knowledge, I can pretty much claim anything I like. That this week’s top story was Mark Zuckerberg being eaten by zebras , for example, or Al Qaeda investing in Twitter . Hell, I could probably claim that Spotify is profitable and it would still pass entirely without remark. Who would know? Just me and Google’s spider. But I’m a professional – which is why I only missed my Christmas Day deadline by 24 hours – and as such I take seriously my responsibility to bring you this week’s top stories, regardless of whether you care or not. Hell, I’ve even come up with a festive theme in a vain attempt to keep you reading. Even though I know you’re not. Here we go then… On the first day of Christmas, TechCrunch gave to you…. One billion dollar exits Sarah rounded off her South American research trip by profiling Wences Casares and examining the difference between billion dollar exits and what it means to feel “success”. On the second day of Christmas, TechCrunch gave to you… Two out of every ten companies suffering from “stealth disease” Vivek tells stealth start-ups: Get Over Yourselves: Nobody Cares About Your Secrets. On the third day of Christmas, TechCrunch gave to you… Three years of Crunchies The first tickets to the third annual Crunchies sold out very quickly, but there’s still plenty of time to vote for the winners across 18 categories before voting closes on January 6th. On the fourth day of Christmas, TechCrunch gave to you… Four screenings of Avatar Or at least that’s how many Arrington has attended since the movie launched this week and he described it as ‘The iPhone Of Movies’. On the fifth day of Christmas, TechCrunch gave to you… Five hundred and fifty million dollars Over half a billion dollars; the price that Yelp turned down when they walked away from selling to Google. On the sixth day of Christmas, TechCrunch gave to you… Six -ty thousand nooks will be shipped by Barnes & Noble this year …despite issues with shipping pre-orders. On the seventh day of Christmas, TechCrunch gave to you… Seven million more dollars raised by ChaCha ….despite issues with their entire business being a joke. On the eighth day of Christmas, TechCrunch gave to you… Eight million dollars raised by Livemocha …in a round led by August Capital to allow the online language-learning community to build new partnership deals and work on product development. On the ninth day of Christmas, TechCrunch gave to you… Nine ‘rock-star’ names associated with WePay’s new group payments services Levchin, McClure, Conway, Y Combinator… On the tenth day of Christmas, TechCrunch gave to you… Ten IPO Candidates for 2010 ….and, from Europe, ten disappointing tech stories of 2009. On the eleventh day of Christmas, TechCrunch gave to you… Eleven billion valuation for Facebook Up from the company’s $10billion valuation earlier this year. And finally. On the twelfth day of Christmas, TechCrunch gave to you… Twelve (at least) religions that I’ve certainly offended by suggesting that the entire world stops for Christmas. I look forward to the comments. Not that I’ll be reading them – after all, it’s Christmas! Have a good week! Crunch Network : CrunchGear drool over the sexiest new gadgets and hardware. | |
| Polyvore's Virtual Styling Tool Aims To Be More Social With Facebook Connect | Top |
| As “Fashion 2.0″ sites continue to innovate, the social component of these style-focused sites becomes an important tool for viral growth. Weardrobe, a site focused on capturing and sharing the street style of web users, was recently acquired by Like.com And we’ve written about Polyvore, the startup lets web shoppers pull their favorite items any online store and mix and match to create personalized outfits online. Users can then share their creations on the site and can then buy the items shown. The site is seeing rapid growth, with over 6 million unique visitors per month thanks to new branding efforts and the launch of Facebook Connect. Polyvore’s virtual styling tool allows people to mix and match products from any online store to create fashion collages, called “sets,” and collections that can then be embedded in other sites. Armed with $7 million in funding, Polyvore has recently forged partnerships with brands like Calvin Klein, Barney’s, Lancome, Zappos Marc Jacobs, and the Gap to create branded collages that the Polyvore community of users can then share and buy from. Many of these brands use Polyvore’s technology to create contests for users.The startup collects revenue in these partnerships and also sees returns from affiliate fees when users buy And users can now share their branded “sets” via Facebook and Twitter, serving as social advertisements for designers and fashion companies. Polyvore says 30,000 sets are created daily on the site. Launched in 2007, the startup just raised $5.6 million in funding. Crunch Network : CrunchBoard because it’s time for you to find a new Job2.0 | |
| Indiagames To Launch New Cricket Gaming iPhone App | Top |
| One of India’s most popular gaming platforms Indiagames is launching a nifty new Cricket iPhone app, called Cricket T20 Fever. Cricket is hugely popular in India and the new app will be a feature rich gaming app that will aim to simulate the experience of playing the sport and competing against other players. The game will launch first on the iPhone and as a PC browser based game and within a few months be available on additional platforms like Symbian, Symbian, Maemo, PSP, Xbox Live Arcade and Nintendo DSi. And the app will feature Facebook Connect. Indiagames has already released a number of mobile cricket apps, including its Cricket T20 World Championship app. Initially Indiagames plans to launch a free version of the game on App Store and a Paid Premium version but will also be experimenting with microtransactions with the app. While cricket doesn’t have a significant fan base in the U.S., the sport has a huge following in other parts of the world, such as India. Crunch Network : CrunchGear drool over the sexiest new gadgets and hardware. | |
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