Digital Chocolate Dips Into Investors' Pockets, Raises $12 Million for Social Games

Mobile-game turned social-games developer Digital Chocolate, led by Electronic Arts founder Trip Hawkins, has raised $12 million in additional venture capital.

Web 2.0 Summit: Gaming

Trip Hawkins, Founder & CEO of Digital Chocolate, and Robert Kotick, CEO of Activision, take the stage to discuss “core gaming” with Webb Alert host Morgan Webb. A bit slow getting started here, but Hawkins soon gets things moving by claiming traditional content is dead. We’re headed toward a world of immersive, social content, says [...]

Last Words on SDForum Event

In my first post about the SDForum’s annual Visionary Awards, I forgot to add a few things that were interesting to me, including a short snippet of video I forgot to put in the first one, which appears after the jump. First, Heidi Roizen–at whose luxe house in Atherton, Calif., the event took place–was also [...]

Some Vision for Silicon Valley

Last night, party animal that I am, I also went to the SDForum‘s 10th Annual Visionary Awards, which was held at the house of well-known venture capitalist Heidi Roizen in Atherton, Calif. The not-for-profit group for-profit gave out its yearly awards to four tech figures, including The Wall Street Journal’s Personal Technology columnist Walt Mossberg, [...]