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  Sulake Opens the Habbo Social Hub to Third Party Developers; Announces ...
  Gamasutra
  Helsinki, Finland - Sulake, the parent company of Habbo Hotel, today announced its first partner for its third party development program that will bring new games to the world's largest social game and online community for teenagers at 10 million ...
  
  
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  Ringi Seeks To Change Phone Calls By Adding Context
  ArcticStartup
  After being the CEO of Sulake (the company behind Habbo Hotel) for around ten and a half years, Timo Soininen decided he wanted to do something other than "sell pixels the rest of his life." Mid-September last year, he started building a team and ...
  
  
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  Candy Crush Saga also on top of this week's fastest-growing Facebook games by DAU
  Inside Social Games
  Finally, Sulake's Habbo Hotel España shows a 30000 DAU gain, up by 25 percent. All data in this post comes from our traffic tracking service, AppData. Stay tuned for our look at the top emerging apps on Friday. Sign up for free email updates beyond ...
  
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  How brands can engage teens online
  iMedia Connection (blog)
  ... (if you'd like to know more, do watch this video seminar on teenagers and social media that includes presentations from Paul LaFontaine from Sulake (Habbo Hotel), Dr Barbie Clarke, founder of Family Kids and Youth and eModeration's own Tia Fisher).
  
  
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  Ukash hires Boom! to raise profile among gamers
  The Drum
  It is already an accepted form of payment within hundreds of online games including Habbo Hotel, Farmville and Dark Orbit. Agency founder Justin Crosby said: "Gamers can now make purchases in their favourite games on social networks or other online ...
  
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  Social games news roundup: King.com, Detroit and Jay-Z
  Inside Social Games
  Sulake launches new social hub for third-party games — Sulake is launching a new platform to expand its offerings to its Habbo Hotel players. The hub will feature content from third party game developers and signed UK-based Remode Studios as the first ...
  
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  Social networks: How young is too young?
  Stuff.co.nz (blog)
  Do we limit the discussion to networks aimed at adults/teens, Facebook, Twitter and so on, or do we include sites targeted at a younger market, your Neopets, Habbo Hotel? The age of 13 seems to be a universal mark for these networks (due to US law), ...
  
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