Chris DeWolfe

MindJolt, the gaming company led by MySpace co-founder Chris DeWolfe, recently announced that it’s changing its name to the Social Gaming Network. DeWolfe spoke to me earlier this week about the name change, and about his plans for the coming year. The new company name may sound familiar, because MindJolt actually acquired SGN last year. (SGN founder Shervin Pishevar is now a managing director at Menlo Ventures.) DeWolfe says the SGN name is a better reflection of what the company is doing...Read Full Story

For a lot of people, Chris DeWolfe is still best known as the co-founder of pioneering social network Myspace — but even with that big name success under his belt, it’s fair to say he is not resting on his laurels just yet. For the past two years he has been heads down building an increasingly powerful social gaming company SGN, which was recently previously known as MindJolt, that is aiming to give Zynga a run for its money by making games that bridge Facebook, mobile and the web. We talked...Read Full Story

« Nielsen Deletes Reply-To-All Button I sat down with MySpace CEO Chris DeWolfe at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland for a few minutes between sessions he was participating in. Travis Katz, GM of MySpace International, was also supposed to attend but was off skiing for the day. DeWolfe talks about the two star hotel he’s staying at here in Davos (complete with a Murphy Bed), and compares the more somber mood of the event to the last time he attended two years ago...Read Full Story

Chris DeWolfe, co-founder of MySpace, is about to step down and leave the company. He will, however, stay with the company as a strategic advisor. Tom Anderson will remain on board in a new role. It looks like the new CEO will be Owen Van Natta, a former Facebook executive. It does seem as though at least a couple of other people are in the running. Here are the official press release and the email that went out to employees: Press Release: Chris DeWolfe to Step Down as CEO of MySpace Will...Read Full Story

Last year we reported that MySpace founder and former CEO Chris DeWolfe was raising a big round of capital to start acquiring companies. He’s now closed on that round of capital and has made his first acquisition. He’s also “got the band back together” by bringing on a slew of former MySpace executives to help him with the new ventures. His company, called Platform G, has acquired MindJolt, a San Francisco based social gaming platform founded by Richard Fields. Austin Ventures is backing him...Read Full Story

MindJolt, the game distribution company that was acquired by MySpace founder and former CEO Chris DeWolfe last year, has made two significant acquisitions in the gaming space today— game developer Social Gaming Network (SGN) and game network Hallpass Media. The acquisitions were first reported by the New York Times. Financial terms of the acquisitions were not disclosed. SGN creates a number of popular games for iPhone and Android devices and social platforms like Facebook. SGN’s hit online...Read Full Story

"I'd love to work with Myspace again," concludes a wide ranging BusinessWeek interview withMySpace co-founder and former CEO Chis DeWolfe. But will  the current CEO of gaming company MindJolt actually try to buy Myspace back? "It's a confidential process - but it's the biggest property for sale at what, in this market, would be a somewhat reasonable price," DeWolfe admitted.What would it take to bring MySpace back to life? "You have to understand what it was, and what it can be. You can't...Read Full Story

Now that Paris Hilton has split with Benji Madden, who is she hooking up with now? According to gossip reports, Paris was spotted making out with MySpace CEO Chris DeWolfe, at Tao at the Sundance Lift in Utah. iCelebz reports: a source told the New York Daily News newspaper: “They were grinding each other on [...]Read Full Story

For a lot of people, Chris DeWolfe is still best known as the co-founder of pioneering social network Myspace — but even with that big name success under his belt, it’s fair to say he is not resting on his laurels just yet. For the past two years he has been heads down building an increasingly powerful social gaming company SGN , which was recently previously known as MindJolt , that is aiming to give Zynga a run for its money by making games that bridge Facebook, mobile and the web. We...Read Full Story