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The new summer job: Nebraska high schoolers score tech internships
It’s a sunny afternoon in Omaha—a great day for teens on summer break to be outside. But high schoolers Okina Tran of Millard South High School and Katie Nguyen of Burke High School are working inside the darkened Aksarben offices of game developer, SkyVu Entertainment. And they’re excited about it…
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Ben Vu says his family’s journey from Vietnam inspired Battle Bears game
Media coverage of Omaha gaming startup SkyVu Entertainment often notes the irregularity of an animation studio based in Nebraska, but the story of how the company’s creator, Ben Vu, laid roots here has rarely been told. Vu’s parents and older brother immigrated to the state in 1975, fleeing South …
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Battle Bears’ Ben Vu is Pipeline’s first regional Innovator of the Year
Pipeline, the Kansas-based entrepreneurial fellowship program for high-growth entrepreneurs, tonight held its annual awards celebration, Innovator of the Year. Nearly 600 individuals attended the sold out event at The Midland theater in Kansas City, Mo. Battle Bears creator Ben Vu of Omaha earned the event’s highest honor, “Innovator of the Year,” one of four awards…
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Battle Bears reaches 20m downloads, billboards “all over” San Francisco
SkyVu Entertainment announced Tuesday that Battle Bears, its popular mobile game franchise that’s on its way to becoming a television show, surpassed 20 million downloads. Originally released in 2009, Battle Bears is currently available in three iterations: Battle Bears -1, Battle Bears: Zombies! and the multiplayer Battle Bears Royale, for which SkyVu recently released an…
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Battle Bears to break onto small screen as SkyVu announces TV deal
SkyVu Entertainment today announced it has signed a development deal with Wildbrain Entertainment to bring the characters of its popular mobile game franchise Battle Bears to the small screen. Wildbrain, a DHX Media Ltd. Company behind shows that air on Nickelodeon, Disney and HBO, is licensing the Battle Bears brand to develop a TV series…
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Lightbank leads way as SkyVu raises new seed funding
With the growing success of its free-to-play model, Omaha mobile games company SkyVu Entertainment reached profitability early this year and wasn’t actively seeking institutional investment. But that began to change in May, over the course of a couple of tweets. “We were in a comfy position to choose whether or not we needed to pursue…
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Prairie Portrait: Michael Kingery of SkyVu Entertainment
Silicon Prairie News: What are some of the latest and greatest projects in the works from the team at SkyVu? | Michael Kingery: I am pretty happy with how Battle Bears Royale turned out actually! I can’t believe that we now have a large multiplayer game under our belt. I’m also happy with our next…
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Proxibid, Ben Vu among AIM Institute award recipients
Proxibid and Ben Vu, the CEO and co-founder of SkyVu Entertainment, highlighted a list of companies and individuals recognized Tuesday night during The AIM Institute’s 2012 Technology Celebration Awards. Handed out by the Omaha-based AIM Institute, the awards honor area companies, individuals, educators and students for their outstanding contributions to the region’s information technology scene.…
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Prairie Moves: VoterTide Alerts, SmartyPig, AgLocal and more
Published Tuesdays and Fridays, Prairie Moves keeps our readers informed about career moves, media coverage, product development and more from the companies and individuals we cover on Silicon Prairie News. If you or your company would like to submit one of the items below for our next Prairie Moves post, please email editor@siliconprairienews.com. And if…
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Prairie Moves: Eli Perelman, ShareWhere, LiveOn and more
Published Tuesdays and Fridays, Prairie Moves keeps our readers informed about career moves, media coverage, product development and more from the companies and individuals we cover on Silicon Prairie News. If you or your company would like to submit one of the items below for our next Prairie Moves post, please email editor@siliconprairienews.com. And if…