Offerpal’s Black and White day

We at Offerpal Media are always working to help our publishers succeed. And once a month on a Friday, we take a small break to re-energize the team. After all, “All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy”. And we have seen this work very well. Our team is tireless and fully committed [...]

Offerpal partners with Zembly to monetize crowd-sourced applications

Zembly is a hosted web application development and runtime platform that lets people build widgets and social applications by tapping into the power of the crowd for faster and easier development. With zembly, you can build apps for platforms such as Facebook, OpenSocial, meebo, iPhone, and Google Gadgets.  Most of the developers who use Zembly [...]

Casual Connect raffle winner announced

At Casual Connect last week in Seattle, Offerpal Media held a special promotion that encouraged participants to “Fight Fraud, Win a Wii!”
To take part, participants needed to visit each of 6 booths — ours, iovation’s, ThreatMetrix’s, Vindicia’s, Plimus’s, and paysafecard’s — and ask each company what they are doing to help fight fraud in the [...]

The fraud prevention battle heats up

Inside Social Games is reporting today that social gaming company Zynga has recently filed several (more) trademark infringement lawsuits, many of which are designed to go after the fraudsters who are devaluing Zynga’s virtual economies. One claim — filed under the California Statutory Unfair Competition — alleges:
that by using the ZYNGA mark and selling [...]

Setting new standards in security and fraud prevention for the social gaming industry

Let’s face it: security and fraud are serious issues for the social gaming industry. Several experts — such as our friend Marcus Eikenberry over at TrustWho — say that fraud for online games can reach as high as 50%, especially if player-to-player transfers are allowed. Even where there are no P2P transfers, fraud tends to [...]