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Game has garnered 14.5 million Twitter mentions during lifespan, claims King
Read More »Candy Crush Saga tops 500m downloads
Candy Crush Saga today celebrates its first anniversary with an impressive milestone. The sickly sweet title debuted last February on Facebook and launched on mobile devices shortly after. Despite its short life span, the title has already been downloaded to over 500m devices. Developer King didn’t reveal how many active …
Read More »King appoints Ciara Smyth to lead its global recruitment team
Candy Crush maker welcomes Zipcar human resources VP to its expanding team
Read More »Candy Crush headed to Amazon Kindle Fire
King to bring its match-three mega hit to Amazon's tablet this week
Read More »Candy Crush Saga is heading to Amazon’s Kindle Fire
King.com’s massively popular match-3 title Candy Crush Saga is to make its debut on Kindle Fire devices later this week. The game will be available from the Amazon Appstore from Thursday (October 17th), although it will appear in some unspecified ‘selected territories’ today. The game has some 53m+ active daily …
Read More »King appoints chief financial officer
Candy Crush Saga firm hires Hope Cochran as IPO looms
Read More »Candy Crush maker King files for IPO in US
Public offering expected to value the London firm at $5 billion
Read More »Ownership and autonomy core to King’s success
Head of London studio says King does not engage in crunch
Read More »Sweet for London – Inside King’s UK studio
Catharina Lavers Mallet on what the city means to the Candy Crush dev
Read More »Candy Crush Saga drops on Korea
King's sensationally popular game heads to mobile messenger based SNS Kakao Talk platform
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