Tango, the mobile messaging app firm that recently raised a $280 million funding round led by China’s Alibaba, is the latest chat app to make a big mobile gaming push after it announced a new $25 million fund dedicated to games. Money from the fund, which the company says is a first for a messaging company, will predominantly be used to pay for marketing and promotions for companies that build games for the Tango platform. Launched last year, Tango’s games service takes its cue from Asian messaging apps, leveraging user friendship graphs to allow them to share scores, run leaderboards, battle each other…
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