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AppLovin
Applovin Corporation, doing business as AppLovin, is a mobile technology company headquartered in Palo Alto, California. Founded in 2012, it operated in stealth mode until 2014. AppLovin enables developers of all sizes to market, monetize, analyze and publish their apps through its mobile advertising, marketing, and analytics platforms MAX, AppDiscovery, and SparkLabs. AppLovin operates Lion Studios, which works with game developers to promote and publish their mobile games. AppLovin also has large investments in various mobile game publishers. In 2020, 49% of AppLovin's revenue came from businesses using its software and 51% from consumers making in-app purchases. History AppLovin was founded in 2012 by Adam Foroughi, John Krystynak, and Andrew Karam. Foroughi stated that the AppLovin name came from Bloglovin', a content organizing company, contrary to reports of a homage to the Christopher Mintz-Plasse character from the 2007 film, '' Superbad''. The company operated in ste ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adam Foroughi
Adam Foroughi is an Iranian-American billionaire businessman and the chief executive officer (CEO) of AppLovin, a mobile technology company. Biography Born in 1980, Foroughi's family emigrated to the United States to escape the destruction caused by Iraq-Iran War. Adam grew up in Los Angeles, California, where his father has a successful construction company. He studied at the University of California, Berkeley, earning a B.A. in economics. Upon graduating from Berkeley, Foroughi worked as a derivatives trader. Later, he founded two marketing companies before starting AppLovin. In 2012, Foroughi co-founded AppLovin along with friends John Krystynak and Andrew Karam. On April 15, 2021, AppLovin became a public company after an initial public offering (IPO), with a total valuation of approximately $24 billion. As a result of AppLovin's successful IPO, Foroughi's net worth rose to an estimated $2 billion. Adam is married and has 5 children. References Living people 1980 bi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Karam
Andrew Karam (born 1981/1982) is an American businessman and billionaire who cofounded mobile game developer AppLovin. Biography Karam is a graduate of Tufts University where he received a B.A. in Economics and a B.S. in Engineering. After school, he cofounded Social Hour and Style Page, a social platform for designers. In 2012, he cofounded the mobile game developer AppLovin with Adam Foroughi and John Krystynak. AppLovin went public in April 2021. As of 2022, Karam owns 8% of AppLovin stock. Personal life He lives in Menlo Park, California. Net worth Forbes ''Forbes'' () is an American business magazine owned by Integrated Whale Media Investments and the Forbes family. Published eight times a year, it features articles on finance, industry, investing, and marketing topics. ''Forbes'' also r ... lists his net worth as of April 2022 at $1.1 billion USD. References American billionaires American company founders 21st-century American businesspeople Livin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Unity Technologies
Unity Software Inc. ( doing business as Unity Technologies) is a video game software development company based in San Francisco. It was founded in Denmark in 2004 as Over the Edge Entertainment (OTEE) and changed its name in 2007. Unity Technologies is best known for the development of Unity, a licensed game engine used to create video games and other applications. History Founding and early success (2004–2008) Unity Technologies was founded as Over the Edge Entertainment (OTEE) in Copenhagen in 2004 by David Helgason (CEO), Nicholas Francis ( CCO), and Joachim Ante ( CTO). Over the Edge released its first game, ''GooBall'', in 2005. The game failed commercially, but the three founders saw value in the game development tools that they had created to simplify game development, and so they shifted the company's focus to create an engine for other developers. The company sought to "democratize" game development and make development of 2D and 3D interactive content more acc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Machine Zone
Machine Zone, Inc. (MZ) is an American privately held technology company, founded in 2008 and based in Palo Alto, California. The company is best known for its widely advertised freemium mobile MMO strategy games '' Game of War: Fire Age'' and '' Mobile Strike'', which have both simultaneously been ranked among the top ten highest-grossing mobile games. History Origin and first products (2008–2012) The company, which was originally called Addmired, was founded in 2008. In 2012, Addmired changed its name to Machine Zone, after raising $8 million in funding from Menlo Ventures. Gabriel Leydon founded the company with partners Mike Sherrill and current Chief Technology Officer Halbert Nakagawa. It was among the participants in Y Combinator's Winter 2008 Accelerator program for startups. The company got its start making ''AddHer'' and ''AddHim'', a pair of MySpace widgets that ''TechCrunch'' called "a Hot or Not-esque social network plugin." Addmired later pivoted into the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russell 1000
The Russell 1000 Index is a stock market index that tracks the highest-ranking 1,000 stocks in the Russell 3000 Index, which represent about 93% of the total market capitalization of that index. , the stocks of the Russell 1000 Index had a weighted average market capitalization of $608.1 billion and a median market capitalization of $15.1 billion. , components ranged in market capitalization from $1.8 billion to $1.4 trillion. The index, which was launched on January 1, 1984, is maintained by FTSE Russell, a subsidiary of the London Stock Exchange Group. The ticker symbol is ^RUI. There are several exchange-traded funds and mutual funds that track the index. Record values Annual returns Top sectors by weight *Technology * Consumer Discretionary * Health Care *Industrials * Financial services Top 10 holdings *Apple () *Microsoft () *Amazon () *Alphabet (Class A) () * Tesla () *Alphabet (Class C) () * Meta () *Nvidia () *Berkshire Hathaway () *UnitedHealth Group () (as of De ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geewa
Geewa is a Czech mobile game developer based in Prague. Founded in 2005, the company develops and publishes casual competitive multiplayer games for mobile devices. Geewa was awarded the Red Herring 100 Europe award in 2013 and is best known for their games ''Smashing Four'' and ''Pool Live Tour''. In 2017, Geewa lost CZK 18 mio ($781,599.42 USD) on sales of CZK 26 mio ($1,128,976.94 USD). The cumulated loss increased to CZK 174 mio ($7,555,461.06 USD). History Geewa is an acronym for Games for Everyone, Everywhere, With Anyone. Shortly after forming, the company launched the games portal "Geewa.com" with six initial games. Originally, their business model was based on free-to-play principles and financed through advertisement. In 2006, Geewa formed a partnership with Seznam.cz, the biggest web portal in the Czech Republic, to jointly operate a gaming portal called Hry.cz. Geewa raised $2.2 million in venture capital funding from Poland’s MCI Ventures in 2007. In the followin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
IronSource
ironSource Ltd. is an Israeli software company that focuses on developing technologies for app monetization and distribution, with its core products focused on the app economy. Among others, ironSource was chosen as one of the '20 hottest startups' in 2013 and was listed in the Wall Street Journal "Billion Dollar Startup Club". In September 2015, ironSource was named by the World Economic Forum as a Global Growth Company. ironSource has also been named one of the hottest pre-IPO tech companies by Business Insider, and one of Israel's most innovative companies by Fast Company. ironSource has over 1000 employees, with more than half dedicated to research and development. Headquartered in Tel Aviv, ironSource also has offices in New York, San Francisco, London, Beijing, Shenzhen, Tokyo, and Seoul. History Founded in 2010 in Tel Aviv, ironSource provides platforms and tools for application developers including analytics, user monetization, conversion, acquisition and optimizati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Twitter
Twitter is an online social media and social networking service owned and operated by American company Twitter, Inc., on which users post and interact with 280-character-long messages known as "tweets". Registered users can post, like, and ' retweet' tweets, while unregistered users only have the ability to read public tweets. Users interact with Twitter through browser or mobile frontend software, or programmatically via its APIs. Twitter was created by Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams in March 2006 and launched in July of that year. Twitter, Inc. is based in San Francisco, California and has more than 25 offices around the world. , more than 100 million users posted 340 million tweets a day, and the service handled an average of 1.6 billion search queries per day. In 2013, it was one of the ten most-visited websites and has been described as "the SMS of the Internet". , Twitter had more than 330 million monthly active users. In practice, the va ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Riccitiello
John Riccitiello () is an American business executive who is chief executive officer (CEO) of Unity Technologies. Previously, he served as CEO, chief operating officer and president of Electronic Arts, and co-founded private equity firm Elevation Partners in 2004. Riccitiello has served on several company boards, including those of the Entertainment Software Association, the Entertainment Software Rating Board, the Haas School of Business and the USC School of Cinematic Arts. Early life and education John Riccitiello was born in Erie, Pennsylvania. He earned his Bachelor of Science degree from the University of California, Berkeley's Haas School of Business in 1981. Career Early in his career, Riccitiello worked at Clorox and PepsiCo, and served as managing director of the Häagen-Dazs division of Grand Metropolitan. He was named president and chief executive officer (CEO) of Wilson Sporting Goods, as well as chairman of MacGregor Golf, in late 1993. He then served as pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Public Company
A public company is a company whose ownership is organized via shares of stock which are intended to be freely traded on a stock exchange or in over-the-counter markets. A public (publicly traded) company can be listed on a stock exchange (listed company), which facilitates the trade of shares, or not ( unlisted public company). In some jurisdictions, public companies over a certain size must be listed on an exchange. In most cases, public companies are ''private'' enterprises in the ''private'' sector, and "public" emphasizes their reporting and trading on the public markets. Public companies are formed within the legal systems of particular states, and therefore have associations and formal designations which are distinct and separate in the polity in which they reside. In the United States, for example, a public company is usually a type of corporation (though a corporation need not be a public company), in the United Kingdom it is usually a public limited company (plc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Axios (website)
''Axios'' (stylized as ΛXIOS) is an American news website based in Arlington County, Virginia. It was founded in 2016 and launched the following year by former ''Politico'' journalists Jim VandeHei, Mike Allen and Roy Schwartz. The site's name is based on the el, ἄξιος (), meaning "worthy". ''Axios''s articles are typically brief and matter-of-fact; most are shorter than 300 words and use bullet points so they are easier to scan. In addition to news articles, ''Axios'' produces daily and weekly industry-specific newsletters (including ''Allen's Axios AM'', a successor to his newsletter ''Politico Playbook'' for ''Politico''), and two daily podcasts. On September 1, 2022, Cox Enterprises completed its acquisition of ''Axios''. History VandeHei said he wanted ''Axios'' to be a "mix between ''The Economist'' and Twitter". The company initially covered a mix of business, politics, technology, health care, and media. VandeHei said ''Axios'' would focus on the "collisio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pocket Gamer
''Pocket Gamer'' is a video game website that focuses on mobile, portable and handheld games. The site launched in 2005 and is published and owned by UK company Steel Media Ltd. The site covers all major portable and mobile gaming formats, including iPhone, iPod, iPad, MacBook, Pokémon GO Plus, Android, Nintendo Switch and others. It was one of the first to cover the iPhone gaming market. The publication also hands out awards for handheld games to recognize them in several categories. The British newspaper ''The Guardian'' at one time syndicated a list of recommended mobile games from ''Pocket Gamer'', especially the list of recommended games for each month. In the years since launch, Steel Media Ltd has created many brand spin-offs, including the industry-facing ''PocketGamer.biz'' site and a series of conferences called Pocket Gamer Connects. Its publisher Steel Media Ltd. was acquired by Enthusiast Gaming in 2019. History Launched in April 2005 with the subtitle 'play as y ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
