Double Down pulls in $128M in revenue (as real online gambling inches toward reality in NJ)

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One of the companies that may be best positioned for the approval of online gambling is Double Down Interactive, the fast-growing Seattle upstart that was gobbled up by Las Vegas-based International Game Technology for as much as $500 million last year. Double Down has already generated more than $128 million in revenue in the past… Read More…

Year in review: Vote for the top Seattle tech story of 2012

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It’s been quite the year in Seattle technology. Amazon.com kept growing. Microsoft kept transforming. And several startups raised huge rounds of cash as they looked to become the next Microsoft or Amazon. In case your head was filled with too many Tweets and Facebook posts to keep up, here’s a handy look back at the biggest… Read More…

Q&A: Double Down CEO Greg Enell on growth, games, money and Facebook

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Double Down Interactive, the Seattle-based maker of casino-style social games, started the year by announcing its acquisition by gambling technology giant IGT for up to $500 million. Double Down is ending the year by moving into a new space, next door to its previous headquarters in another part of Seattle’s Union Station complex. The space… Read More…

Just when you thought it couldn’t get worse: Tech execs dance Gangnam Style

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How do you know when an Internet meme has run its course? Executives do stuff like this at conferences. In the span of two hours today, executives from two Seattle tech startups started their talks at the Seattle Interactive conference with “Gangnam Style” dances. First was Glenn Walcott, president of Seattle-based DoubleDown Interactive, who started… Read More…

Q&A: Double Down’s Cooper DuBois on wearing many hats at a startup

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Cooper DuBois wants you to step out of your real world and come into his for a few minutes a day. How’s he going to do it? He and his team at Seattle’s Double Down Interactive are creating fun, social gaming environments where everyone can take a spin around a casino and share the fun… Read More…

Double Down boosts revenue for slot machine giant IGT

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International Game Technology’s purchase of Seattle-based Double Down Interactive, a developer of casino-style Facebook games, is starting to pay dividends. In the slot machine giant’s earnings report today, IGT said that revenues increased 13 percent largely due to the growth of the company’s interactive unit, which includes Double Down. Without the interactive businesses, revenue would have… Read More…

Game company hires 100th employee, plans free ice cream social to celebrate

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OK, we know it is tough to find solid, hard-working tech employees around Seattle. But a stunt today by Double Down Interactive, the social gaming company that was acquired by gambling giant IGT for up to $500 million earlier this year, is really taking the cake. Or should we say the ice cream. In order… Read More…

Casino giant IGT goes social, launches Vegas slot machine favorite on Facebook

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International Game Technologies — which purchased Seattle social game maker Double Down Interactive for up to $500 million in January — is bringing its popular Da Vinci Diamonds slot machine to Facebook. But this won’t be the full Vegas experience. After all, in the Facebook version, only virtual coins are at stake (for now). The game will be… Read More…

Seattle 2.0 Startup Awards: Vote for Deal of the Year

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From IPOs to M&A deals to big venture capital financing rounds, today’s featured category in the Seattle 2.0 Startup Awards is Deal of the Year. There certainly were some whoppers in the Seattle area, and this group of companies certainly symbolizes some of the best and brightest in the Seattle tech community. This is one… Read More…

PopCap doubles down on Facebook games with grand opening of Lucky Gem Casino

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This could get pretty interesting. PopCap Games this week launched a new series of casino-style games on Facebook in which players compete in slot-based games, playing by themselves or with friends using virtual currency. The Lucky Gem Casino games — which utilize characters from PopCap’s line-up of blockbuster hits such as Chuzzle, Bejeweled and Zuma… Read More…

With Double Down off the table, Zynga looks for playing partners in Internet gambling

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The virtual coins that players wager in casino-style games on Facebook may be getting a real monetary value, at least some time in the future. The social gaming powerhouse Zynga tells All Things D today that it is in “active conversations with potential partners” about Internet gambling. “We know from listening to our players that… Read More…

Newsmakers 2011: Mariachi and margaritas mark wild year for Double Down’s Walcott, Enell

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Executives at Double Down Interactive hired a mariachi band to entertain staffers at a company meeting in September — a special treat for hitting one million daily active users on Facebook. And then — amid the tortilla chips and margaritas — the fun really started. CEO and co-founder Greg Enell — along with execs Glenn Walcott… Read More…