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- Report: Zynga Adds Virtual Pets To Roster With GoPets Acquisition
- Social gamer Zynga has acquired GoPets, a gaming company that lets people create and train virtual pets, according to Virtual Goods News. We’ve contacted Zynga for confirmation. The deal adds a desktop-based game that’s not tethered to any specific social network to Zynga’s roster, as users can download their...
- External links 2009-11-02
- Zynga Acquires Virtual World-Creator MyMiniLife
- Social gaming company Zynga has acquired MyMiniLife, a Palo Alto-based social entertainment firm that lets users create and decorate virtual environments. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, though Zynga said it plans to integrate MyMiniLife's technology and staff. The two companies first worked together on Zynga's popular...
- External links 2009-08-07
- Zynga Accuses Playdom Of Stealing Trade Secrets, Gets Restraining Order
- The legal drama between social gaming rivals Zynga and Playdom moved from claims of misleading ads to accusations of trade secret theft and a temporary restraining order. Zynga sued Playdom in June over supposedly misleading ads. The new suit, reported first by first by TechCrunch, accuses Playdom of stealing...
- External links 2009-09-11
- Zynga's Gaming Gamble
- In late September a sizzling San Francisco Web gaming company called Zynga took the cloak off its latest creation: an online game that lets people open virtual restaurants on their Facebook pages. Competitors vie for points by tending to pseudo-stoves and cranking out orders of cheeseburgers and chunky fruit salads...
- News items 2009-10-29
- Offers controversy stirs reactions across social networking industry
- News items 2009-11-03
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- My take on zynga and cpa offers
- « Zynga games about to come back up | Main Michael Arrington posted over the weekend about CPA offers within social games and questioned why facebook, myspace, zynga and others would expose these to our users. He raises good points about ‘scammy' advertisers and the bad user experience they create....
- News items 2009-11-02
- Ensuring zynga's user experience - removing all cpa offers
- « to zwink or not? | Main michael arrington posted yesterday on mobile offerings still being shown in our new game fishville. I want to explain why this occurred and how we are taking more aggressive steps to ensure this never happens again. zynga has not been able to control...
- News items 2009-11-08
- Zynga Takes Steps To Remove Scams From Games
- Well that didn't take long. We outlined the not-so-ethical ways that the big social gaming startups are generating revenue through lead gen scams and subscriptions through a series of posts over the last week. Starting with Social Games: How The Big Three Make Millions and Scamville:...
- News items 2009-11-02
- Zynga Completes $29 Million Financing, Led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and IVP
- Bing Gordon, KPCB Partner and EA Founder, Joins Board Company Acquires YoVille - Largest Virtual World Game on Social Networks SAN FRANCISCO -- Zynga, the largest social gaming service, announced today that it has completed a new round of funding led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers along...
- Research articles 2008-07-23
- Is EA Going to Buy Zynga or Playfish in Social Gaming Bid? [Voices]
- In recent weeks we've been hearing rumors about gaming giant EA ERTS looking to acquire social gaming companies — specifically Zynga and Playfish. Both social gaming companies have denied the rumors, so assuming there are no deals that are about to be inked and announced, here's what appears to be...
- News items 2009-10-15
- Warning over Facebook FarmVille game
- Popular Facebook game accused of encouraging young people to spend real money on virtual cash FarmVille , a free online farm simulation game available through Facebook , has been accused of generating "hundreds of millions of dollars" from unsuspecting players, many of whom are children. ...
- News items 2009-11-04
- EA pays USD250m for Playfish - Rumour
- Electronic Arts EA is rumoured to have bought social gaming firm Playfish for around USD250m. If true, the deal is the first major acquisition in the social gaming space and indicates the growing importance of this sector, which many say is ripe for consolidation. ...
- Articles 2009-10-14
- It's Café World's World on This Week's Top 20 Growing Apps List
- We've been chronicling the rise of Zynga's Café World virtual restaurant game since it launched at the beginning of the month. By the looks of things, we're going a lot more chronicling. After growing by more than 10 million users in its first week and a half, the app added...
- News items 2009-10-19
- Ex-MySpace CEO Chris DeWolfe Plans To Enter Social Gaming Space
- What's former MySpace CEO Chris DeWolfe up to these days? He wants to be the next big name in the social-gaming craze, we hear. ...several well-placed sources have told CNET News that DeWolfe intends to make a move in social gaming, a red-hot space currently...
- News items 2009-11-01
- Trading in online virtual goods set to top $1bn
- Revenues from the sale of virtual goods will top $1bn this year in the US, according to analysts, a 100 per cent leap over last year that signals the arrival of a new online industry in the largest internet market in the western world.The findings, to be released in...
- News items 2009-10-13
- 11 Million Facebook Users Flock to Virtual Farming Daily
- The rise of social gaming is happening more quietly than one might think given the statistics. Today we're hearing about another potential milestone: Facebook application FarmVille claims to be the fastest growing social game in history, reaching an impressive 11 million daily users in a little over two months. To...
- News items 2009-08-27
- Why Social Gaming Is Ripe For A Major Acquisition
- Reports have been flying around about Electronic Arts (NSDQ: ERTS) potentially buying hot social-gaming company Playfish—with sources telling Inside Social Games that the deal may have closed “a few weeks ago”, and GamesIndustry.biz reporting that it was worth $250 million. EA’s response to us: “We don’t comment on rumors...
- External links 2009-10-15
- Need to know: Electrolux cut ... Merck consent ... Cape success
- View video and Need to Know interactive heatmap Economics UK economy: Britain is now in the grip of the longest recession on record, according to official data. The economy shrank 0.4 per cent between July and September, its sixth consecutive quarterly decline. Output has fallen 5.9 per cent since the...
- News items 2009-10-23
- LinkedIn Founder Joins VC Firm
- BURLINGAME, Calif. -- Silicon Valley venture capital firm Greylock Partners said Monday that it has closed a new $575 million fund and hired LinkedIn Chairman Reid Hoffman as an investing partner. Greylock said it will use the funds to invest in enterprise and consumer software, services and infrastructure ventures. In...
- News items 2009-11-02
- Facebook Cracks Down on Deceptive Ads
- Scammy, deceptive ads have been in the hotseat this week, as earlier MySpace and now Facebook have made commitments to track down and eradicate misleading offers and survey-related ad scams. Social gaming applications in particular are being targeted for permitting certain types...
- News items 2009-11-05
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