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Activision Blizzard Gains As Video Games See Surge

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Santa Monica-based Activision Blizzard is seeing a surge in customers, the company said on Tuesday, as a result of the continuing COVID-19 pandemic. The company just reported results, with sales up 21 percent in the company's first quarter, up to $1.52 billion in Q1. READ MORE>>.

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Call of Duty: Black Ops II Tops $1 Billion Sales Mark

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Santa Monica-based videogame developer Activision Publishing , which is a subsidiary of Activision Blizzard, reports that its newly launched title, Call of Duty: Black Ops II , just crossed the $1 billion mark in retail sales. Activision said it reached that retail sales mark just fifteen days after launch.

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Maestro nets $15 million for its interactive commerce, community and engagement tools for livestreams

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“ We were targeted to a small number of very premier customers. Sales, Sony Music Entertainment, in a statement. . Instead of relying on incumbent distribution platforms, customers control the audience relationship directly and maximize engagement and monetization in a way that fits with their brand objectives.

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Call Of Duty: Black Ops II Sells $500M In First 24 Hours

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Santa Monica-based Activision Publishing is estimating a sell-through of more than $500M in the first 24 hours of launching Call of Duty: Black Ops II. The newest Call of Duty title went on sale on November 13th. The company said the numbers came via Chart-Track, retail customer sell-through information and internal company estimates.

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Fans.lu Ties With Game Development Organization

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is the brainchild of David Padula, Derek Padula, and Dave Delaney, who have created a platform to help developers monetize their games through merchandise sales. David Padula has served at Activision and Paramount Pictures; Derek Padula has worked as a game designer at Electronic Arts, Activision, and Seven Studios. READ MORE>>.

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Why I Invested in Gogii (textPlus) – My First Ever Later Stage Deal

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You fish where your customers are. Scott was one of the first employees at Activision and was VP of their Studio Business. He also was an executive talent at Activision having designed & managed two products (Mechwarrior 2 and ? .&# And Austin Murray runs sales & marketing – a role he also held at JAMDAT.

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TechZulu Presents 2012 Startup Forecast | Featuring Science, Tech Coast Angels, Amplify, StartEngine, upStart.LA

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Howard Marks , Co-Founder at Activision / StartEngine. A 20-year industry veteran, having co-founded juggernaut Activision as well as Acclaim Games. Custom ad deals and partnerships. After its acquisition by Playdom, he was most recently head of the Acclaim studio and Sr. His passion has always been working with startups.