The Silicon Bayou has been buzzing with tech and entrepreneurial news. Here are the most popular stories published on Silicon Bayou News in the past seven days: Web Survey Company QuestionPro Acquires PollBob PollBob has been acquired by QuestionPro, an online market research firm based out of Seattle. New Orleans-based PollBob was co-founded by our very own Zach Kupperman [...]
Gameloft recently launched the space-theme, locally developed Cosmic Colony where users build up their colonies while defending against alien threats. This is the first full game to be developed in the New Orleans studio. The launch coincides with the year anniversary of the studio opening in Louisiana. Gameloft has over 55 million monthly active users [...]
Competition remains fierce in the Silicon Bayou tech job market. Ruby / Rails developers are the most sought after followed by PHP developers and 2D/3D artists and designers. If you’re thinking about moving to the Silicon Bayou – check out these great companies that are hiring! Gameloft One of the largest mobile gaming companies in [...]
The Silicon Bayou has been buzzing with tech and entrepreneurial news. Here are the most popular stories published on Silicon Bayou News in the past seven days: Gameloft: The Guillermot Family’s Game Changer: Julien Meyer, our newest contributing writer, explored the connection the French company Gameloft has to New Orleans. The arrival of Gameloft, a mobile game publisher, [...]
The recent implementation of a software development studio in New Orleans by Gameloft, a French mobile game publisher, constitutes a major success for the State of Louisiana. This grownup-startup headquartered in Paris is a leader in the mobile game market. The company posted 2011 revenues of over 164 million Euros (approx. $215 million), includes 4,500 employees (more [...]
Here’s our roundup of the week’s top tech business news. First, the most popular stories Silicon Bayou News published in the last seven days: Gameloft to Open Major Development Studio in New Orleans – Yesterday, after months of rumors, Gameloft made it official: the company is establishing a new video game development studio in New [...]
Yesterday, after months of rumors, Gameloft made it official: the company is establishing a new video game development studio in New Orleans. Headquartered in Paris, Gameloft is one of the world’s largest publishers of digital and social games. The company will create 146 jobs during the next decade, with an average salary of $69,000, plus [...]
Louisianians in the startup or tech space should be very familiar by now with the the state’s Digital Media Tax Credits, which offer transferable tax credits up to 35% of digital media project costs spent in-state. And since Forbes just wrote an article covering those efforts, now the rest of the country knows about it [...]
Here’s our roundup of the week’s top tech business news. First, the most popular stories Silicon Bayou News published in the last seven days: Interview with Drop the Chalk CEO – Winner of Tulane’s 2011 Domain Company Prize – Drop the Chalk is a New Orleans based software startup that helps great teachers get even [...]
Louisiana’s Digital Interactive Media Incentives have really picked up the pace in the last two years. New projects & companies like Electronic Arts’ $30 Million facility, Gameloft’s New Orleans studio, Globalstar’s move to the north shore, the success of programs like LaunchPad Ignition, and the growth of companies like Calliope Digital, Touch Studios, PollBob, and [...]
