Smeet, the Berlin-based 3D social networking site and social gaming publisher is reportedly laying off half of its technical team today, due to key changes in Facebook policy, making it more difficult/expensive for games publishers to exist on its platform. Skyscanner also announced plans to create 100 new jobs in its Edinburgh HQ, with a new Glasgow office planned for 2013. The free app allows free-text search – which means that users can enter “Flights to LA next Tuesday, back a week later”, rather than completing several data fields. The Skyscanner app is now also available as a Windows 8 version. Investors fled after a TV investigation back in June revealed how the Habbo Hotel virtual world was being used by sexual predators to groom kids for abuse.
Sulake, the company behind Habbo Hotel, is to lay off up to two-thirds of its workforce in Finland as it tries to reinvent itself as a gaming and entertainment platform. With our section “Worth reading” we provide you (once in a while) with some links to interesting articles of other publications: There are so many interesting stories out there and unfortunately we don’t have the time to cover all of them.
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