Mobile Gaming Companies to Target Bullish Growth Opportunities - Company Focuses on New Mobile Gaming Business Model

CORAL SPRINGS, Florida, June 18, 2014 /PRNewswire/ --

Mobile gaming industry advancers diversify client bases with recent developments and platform improvements: Tapinator, Inc. (OTC: TAPM), Activision Blizzard, Inc. (NASDAQ: ATVI), King Digital Entertainment plc (NYSE: KING), Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) and Sony Corporation (NYSE: SNE)

Tapinator, Inc. (OTC: TAPM) is pleased to announce a new focus on the mobile gaming industry, led by a seasoned management team with deep experience in the mobile gaming and social media space. The Company operates its own mobile games, publishes mobile gaming titles where it holds substantial ownership positions, and makes strategic investments into promising mobile companies

The mobile games and application space is a massive and quickly growing industry. In 2013, Apple, Inc (NASDAQ: AAPL) paid out $10 billion to mobile developers and is on pace to far exceed this in 2014. Although Google does not disclose its developer payouts, it is catching up to Apple in terms of monetization and represents a multi-billion dollar market. Individual developers are building highly scalable businesses on mobile. Game developer Supercell announced that it generated $892 million in 2013 off just two games across Android and iOS. Another game developer, King Digital Entertainment, PLC (NYSE: KING), generated sales of $1.88 billion in 2013, primarily off just one mobile/social game, Candy Crush.

To read the full TAPM press release, please click here: http://fnmprofiles.com/profiles-tapm.html 

Tapinator's executives and board members represent a diverse group of seasoned executives, whose backgrounds range from software engineering with an emphasis on mobile platforms, to investment banking and private equity management. The Company's Chief Executive Officer, Ilya Nikolayev, and its President/Chief Technology Officer Khurram Samad, have been part of the mobile gaming and social application industry since 2007.

Activision Blizzard, Inc. (ATVI)'s wholly owned subsidiary, Activision Publishing, Inc., recently announced at Licensing Expo 2014 that its highly popular Toys-to-Life™ video game franchise, Skylanders^®, will extend its worldwide footprint through branded fruit snacks and cereals with General Mills; the first Skylanders magazine with Immediate Media; an official Skylanders comic-book series with IDW; and innovativeSkylanders-themed coloring books from Crayola. These new collaborations represent significant growth opportunities for Activision's already robust global licensing program, which spans more than 175 companies and won last year's International Licensing Industry Merchandisers' Association Awards for Best Toy Brand of the Year, as well as Overall Best Licensed Program of the Year.

King Digital Entertainment plc (KING) a leading interactive entertainment company for the mobile world and creator of global sensations Candy Crush Saga and Farm Heroes Saga, recently announced it has brought players back under the spell of one of its original breakout hits with the launch of Bubble Witch Saga 2. This all-new instalment of the ever-popular bubblicious bubble shooter enchants players with a wide variety of all-new bubble bursting game action. Enhancements include an appealing and whimsical storyline, upgraded bewitching characters, dynamic visuals, exciting episodic adventures, and much more. A "wand"erful new edition to the casual gaming scene, Bubble Witch Saga 2 has been optimised for play on mobile devices and is now available across iOS, Google Android and Facebook.

Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) recently unveiled the future of gaming on Xbox One through a spectacular lineup of games from the world's most visionary creators. This holiday season on Xbox One gamers will enjoy the quintessential collection of the most popular game in Xbox history with "Halo: The Master Chief Collection," as well as highly anticipated exclusives such as "Sunset Overdrive," "Forza Horizon 2," "Fable Legends" and "Dance Central^™ Spotlight." From start to finish, Microsoft's annual E3 press briefing featured wall-to-wall games and highlighted the deep passion for gaming that Xbox creators share with their most dedicated fans. Showcasing the power of the cloud and the best multiplayer experience on Xbox Live, Xbox exclusives shared the stage with blockbusters such as "Assassin's Creed^® Unity," "Call of Duty^®: Advanced Warfare," "Evolve^™" and "Rise of the Tomb Raider," and independent games such as "INSIDE," adding to a growing library of games on Xbox One. In addition, beginning today, gamers can choose to buy an all-new Xbox One option for $399.^[1] Xbox One with Kinect will continue to be available.

Sony Corporation (SNE) designs, develops, manufactures, and sells electronic equipment, instruments, and devices for consumer, professional, and industrial markets worldwide. It offers consumer products and devices, such as LCD televisions; home and car audio, Blu-ray disc and DVD players/recorders, and memory-based portable audio devices; compact digital, home-use video, and interchangeable single-lens cameras; and personal computers. The company also develops, produces, markets, and distributes PlayStation3, PlayStation Vita, PlayStation Portable, and PlayStation 2 hardware and related software. On Tuesday, SNE closed down .86% on over 3 million shares traded.

FinancialNewsMedia.com is leading provider of third party publishing & news dissemination services. If you would like more information regarding our news coverage solutions, please visit http://www.financialnewsmedia.com for more details. Get an edge on the market with our Premium News Alerts that are FREE for a limited time at http://www.financialnewsmedia.com/. Follow us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/financialnewsmedia and Twitter: http://twitter.com/FNMgroup. 

DISCLAIMER:  FN Media Group LLC (FNMG) is a third party publisher and news dissemination service provider, which disseminates electronic information through multiple online media channels. FNMG is NOT affiliated in any manner with any company mentioned herein. FNMG and its affiliated companies are a news dissemination solutions provider and are NOT a registered broker/dealer/analyst/adviser, holds no investment licenses and may NOT sell, offer to sell or offer to buy any security. FNMG's market updates, news alerts and corporate profiles are NOT a solicitation or recommendation to buy, sell or hold securities. The material in this release is intended to be strictly informational and is NEVER to be construed or interpreted as research material. All readers are strongly urged to perform research and due diligence on their own and consult a licensed financial professional before considering any level of investing in stocks. All material included herein is republished content and details which were previously disseminated by the companies mentioned in this release. FNMG is not liable for any investment decisions by its readers or subscribers. Investors are cautioned that they may lose all or a portion of their investment when investing in stocks. For current services performed FNMG has been compensated one thousand seven hundred dollars for news coverage of the current press release issued by Tapinator, Inc. by the company.

FNMG HOLDS NO SHARES OF ANY COMPANY NAMED IN THIS RELEASE.  

This release contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended and such forward-looking statements are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. "Forward-looking statements" describe future expectations, plans, results, or strategies and are generally preceded by words such as "may", "future", "plan" or "planned", "will" or "should", "expected," "anticipates", "draft", "eventually" or "projected". You are cautioned that such statements are subject to a multitude of risks and uncertainties that could cause future circumstances, events, or results to differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements, including the risks that actual results may differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements as a result of various factors, and other risks identified in a company's annual report on Form 10-K or 10-KSB and other filings made by such company with the Securities and Exchange Commission. You should consider these factors in evaluating the forward-looking statements included herein, and not place undue reliance on such statements. The forward-looking statements in this release are made as of the date hereof and FNMG undertakes no obligation to update such statements.

Contact Information:
Company: FN Media Group, LLC
Contact email: [email protected]
U.S. Phone: +1(954)345-0611
URL: http://www.financialnewsmedia.com

SOURCE FN Media Group LLC