Michael Carter (entrepreneur)
Game Closure is a Silicon Valleybased technology company which builds post-app store technology. History The company was founded in Silicon Valley in 2011 by American technology entrepreneur, Michael Carter, and his partner, Tom Fairfield. It has since raised $33.5m in venture capital funding. In 2014, Carter co-founded the startup "Hello World"—and sold it in less than three months to Life360 for over $1 million. Company details and products Game Closure is a partner with Rakuten in a joint venture called Rakuten Games, the Tokyo-based content creator that built the RGames HTML5 gaming platform. Carter also sits on the Board of Directors of Rakuten Games. Game Closure is responsible for creating the game EverWing ''EverWing'' is a game created by Game Closure (formerly Blackstorm Labs) and released on the Instant Games platform in Facebook Messenger Messenger is a proprietary instant messaging app and platform developed by Meta Platforms. Originally de ... on Facebook' ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Silicon Valley
Silicon Valley is a region in Northern California that serves as a global center for high technology and innovation. Located in the southern part of the San Francisco Bay Area, it corresponds roughly to the geographical areas San Mateo County and Santa Clara County. San Jose is Silicon Valley's largest city, the third-largest in California, and the tenth-largest in the United States; other major Silicon Valley cities include Sunnyvale, Santa Clara, Redwood City, Mountain View, Palo Alto, Menlo Park, and Cupertino. The San Jose Metropolitan Area has the third-highest GDP per capita in the world (after Zurich, Switzerland and Oslo, Norway), according to the Brookings Institution, and, as of June 2021, has the highest percentage of homes valued at $1 million or more in the United States. Silicon Valley is home to many of the world's largest high-tech corporations, including the headquarters of more than 30 businesses in the Fortune 1000, and thousands of startup companies ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Life360
Life360 Inc. is a San Francisco, California–based American information technology company that provides location-based services, including sharing and notifications, to consumers globally. Its main service is called Life360, a family social networking Application software, app released in 2008. It is a location-based service designed primarily to enable friends and family members to share their location with each other. History Life360 was founded by Chris Hulls and Alex Haro and has received a total of $90 million in funding since its launch, including funding from both Facebook and Google. The app was initially released in 2008 in the Android marketplace. The first funding for Life360 came in the form of a $275,000 grant as a winner of Google's 2008 Android Developer Challenge. Additional funding included $5.5 million in a Series A round, $17 million in a Series B round, and $50 million in a Series C round. Before going public, the company secured a total of 36 investors inc ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Rakuten
() is a Japanese technology conglomerate based in Tokyo, founded by Hiroshi Mikitani in 1997. Centered around Rakuten Ichiba, its businesses include financial services utilizing financial technology, as well as digital content and communications services such as the messaging app Viber, e-book distributor Kobo, and Japan's fourth mobile carrier Rakuten Mobile. Rakuten has more than 28,000 employees worldwide, operating in 29 countries and regions, and its revenues totaled US $7.2 billion with operating profits of about US$347.9 million as of 2016. Rakuten was the official sponsor of the Spanish football club FC Barcelona from 2017 until 2021,"Gross Merchandise Sales & Number of Employees" Rakuten and the [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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EverWing
''EverWing'' is a game created by Game Closure (formerly Blackstorm Labs) and released on the Instant Games platform in Facebook Messenger Messenger is a proprietary instant messaging app and platform developed by Meta Platforms. Originally developed as Facebook Chat in 2008, the company revamped its messaging service in 2010, released standalone iOS and Android apps in 2011, and ... in November 2016. Gameplay EverWing is a vertical scrolling shooter game in which Guardians and their dragon Sidekicks fight against hordes of Monsters and Bosses in order to reclaim their kingdom. Game modes Single Player Single Player is the core EverWing game mode in which players control Guardians in their endless fight to defeat monsters and bosses. Boss Raids Boss Raids is a cooperative multiplayer mode which allows players to team up with their friends to defeat super monsters. Boss Raids launched as part of an in-game event, The Reckoning, on March 1, 2017. Quests Quests all ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Mobile Games
A mobile game, or smartphone game, is a video game that is typically played on a mobile phone. The term also refers to all games that are played on any portable device, including from mobile phone (feature phone or smartphone), tablet, PDA to handheld game console, portable media player or graphing calculator, with and without network availability. The earliest known game on a mobile phone was a Tetris variant on the Hagenuk MT-2000 device from 1994. In 1997, Nokia launched ''Snake''. Snake, which was pre-installed in most mobile devices manufactured by Nokia, has since become one of the most played games and is found on more than 350 million devices worldwide. A variant of the ''Snake'' game for the Nokia 6110, using the infrared port, was also the first two-player game for mobile phones. Today, mobile games are usually downloaded from an app store but in some cases are also preloaded in the handheld devices by the OEM or by the mobile operator when purchased, via infrared ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |