Social games got their very name from the social networks that they appear on, so why take them out of the equation? If you ask Sweetlabs co-founder and CMO Chester Ng, it's about way more than just ...

SweetLabs’ Pokki software, which has been downloaded by millions of Windows 8 users frustrated with the lack of a start button/menu, will now be pre-installed on new Lenovo Windows 8 PCs. This new ...

Light, fast, and shiny, many Web apps have the futuristic feel of a bullet train. They also have numerous advantages over desktop apps: There’s nothing to install, they don’t take up any hard drive ...

Ever since Microsoft revealed that it will kill the classic Start menu in Windows 8, third-party developers have been cooking up ways to bring it back. SweetLabs, a San Diego-based start-up, is the ...

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The line between Web apps and desktop applications grows ever blurrier. Chrome OS, for example, puts the browser front and center and makes it the core of an entire operating system. Also, in recent ...

SweetLabs, the startup behind Pokki, an app platform for Windows, has landed two big-name deals to get pre-installed on Acer computers with Zynga games. The first with Acer means that Pokki will come ...

Open up the Windows 8 desktop mode and you'll notice a major change: The Start menu is gone. Without the familiar button at the lower left corner, many veteran Windows desktop users are lost in ...

Windows 8 sales may not be what many manufacturers were hoping for, but Lenovo's agreement to ship the Pokki suite on all PCs means it's not letting go of the OS without a fight. Senior writer Seth ...

Windows: We've discussed some great ways to bring the Start Menu back in Windows 8, but Pokki doesn't just offer a good-looking, feature-packed start menu replacement, it also offers its own app store ...

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That headline isn’t exactly right, in that it’s not completely correct. Pokki is a platform that I’ve spent a good part of today trying to decipher, and haven’t fully unlocked; there is something to ...