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  1. Facebook IPO burns Main St.
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    SAN FRANCISCO - Ryan Cefalu, who lives with his wife and two kids in Baton Rouge, La. , saw in Facebook Inc.'s much-anticipated initial public offering a chance to buffer his retirement fund. His expectations fizzled along with the stock within the first Full Article at Minneapolis Star Tribune

  2. Seriously, Buy Some Facebook Stock
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    Right now, it's mainly being fed by Zynga (Nasdaq: ZNGA ) , but in the future, any payment made on Facebook will be processed through the homegrown platform. Let's take this knowledge and do a quick "what if" scenario. What if the investing world is... Full Article at Motley Fool

  3. Getty Images logo Getty Images 11 hours ago
    NEW YORK, NY - MAY 24: A group of Zombies take to the streets for a 'zombie blood drive' in celebration of the global launch of Zynga’s latest mobile game for the iPhone and iPod touch, Zombie Swipeout on May 24, 2012 in New York City.

    NEW YORK, NY - MAY 24: A group of Zombies take to the streets for a 'zombie blood drive' in celebration of the global launch of Zynga’s latest mobile game for the iPhone and iPod touch, Zombie Swipeout on May 24, 2012 in New York City. View Photo »

  4. On March 21, 2012, we acquired 100% of the outstanding stock of OMGPOP, Inc., a provider of social games for mobile phones, tablets and PCs, for purchase consideration of approximately $180 million in cash
    – Zynga SOURCE: Betabeat 2 months ago
  5. PHOTOS: Zombies invade NYC streets
    Kens5.com San Antonio logo Kens5.com San Antonio 2 hours ago

    NEW YORK, NY - MAY 24: A group of Zombies take to the streets for a "zombie blood drive" in celebration of the global launch of Zyngas latest mobile game for the iPhone and iPod touch, Zombie Swipeout on May 24, 2012 in New York City. (Photo by Michael... Full Article at Kens5.com San Antonio

  6. Why We're Buying Facebook
    Motley Fool logo Motley Fool 2 hours ago

    Facebook has created an application platform for developers to access its 900 million users. Fees from the platform make up the revenue in the payments segment. And most of that comes from online payments for virtual goods in Zynga's (Nasdaq: ZNGA )... Full Article at Motley Fool

  7. Zynga Slingo and Hidden Chronicles this week’s gainer and loser among May’s Top 25 games
    Inside Social Games 2 hours ago

    Still, Diamond Dash’s placement on next month’s list doesn’t seem too likely to change unless it drops below 4.1 million DAU or it somehow gains more than 400,000 DAU in the next week. Zynga’s FarmVille continues to gradually lose players, down from... Full Article at Inside Social Games

  8. AP Photo logo AP Photo 5 months ago
    FILE - In this Dec. 16, 2011 file photo, the corporate logo for Zynga, center, is shown on an electronic billboard at the Nasdaq MarketSite, in New York. Zynga Inc. , releases quarterly financial results Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2012, after the market close.

    FILE - In this Dec. 16, 2011 file photo, the corporate logo for Zynga, center, is shown on an electronic billboard at the Nasdaq MarketSite, in New York. Zynga Inc. , releases quarterly financial results Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2012, after the market close. View Photo »

  9. Facebook is nothing more than a distribution platform for other businesses like Zynga.
    SOURCE: Kotaku 2 weeks ago
  10. Zynga and American Express Launch Zynga Serve Rewards Program
    YouTube Logo YouTube Videos 2 days ago
  11. Facebook acqui-hires usability experts behind Bolt Peters to bolster design team
    VentureBeat logo VentureBeat 3 hours ago

    The firm’s client list spans automotive, finance, gaming, healthcare, music, and — ding, ding, ding, ding — mobile categories, and includes everyone Twitter and Zynga to name brands such as Levis, Sony, and Volkswagon. The Bolt Peters team will be... Full Article at VentureBeat

  12. Outernauts Looks to Give Facebook Gaming a Facelift -- First Hands-on Impressions
    G4 TV logo G4 TV 4 hours ago

    Yet what the console game developer hopes to do is bring its brand of plot-driven game design to the social platform, the same kind of narrative draw that made Ratchet & Clank and Resistance so well known. Facebook gamers know all there is about goals... Full Article at G4 TV

  13. Social Gaming's Biggest Competitor: Boredom
    Smartmoney.com logo Smartmoney.com 5 hours ago

    “Draw Something” – a sort of virtual Pictionary in which users post doodles on Twitter and Facebook – fell out of favor faster than many pop songs. Zynga purchased Omgpop, the company that created the game, in March. It scored 50 million downloads in... Full Article at Smartmoney.com

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  1. NEW YORK, NY - MAY 24: A group of Zombies take to the streets for a 'zombie blood drive' in celebration of the global launch of Zynga’s latest mobile game for the iPhone and iPod touch, Zombie Swipeout on May 24, 2012 in New York City.
  2. FILE - In this Dec. 16, 2011 file photo, the corporate logo for Zynga, center, is shown on an electronic billboard at the Nasdaq MarketSite, in New York. Zynga Inc. , releases quarterly financial results Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2012, after the market close.
  3. The corporate logo for Zynga is shown on an electronic billboard at the Nasdaq MarketSite, Friday, Dec. 16, 2011, in New York. Stock in the San Francisco company began trading at Nasdaq, Friday following its IPO.
  4. "Farmville" by Zynga is shown on an electronic billboard at the Nasdaq MarketSite, Friday, Dec. 16, 2011, in New York. Stock in the San Francisco company began trading at Nasdaq, Friday following its IPO.
  5. FILE - In this Dec. 16, 2011 file photo, "Farmville," by Zynga is shown on an electronic billboard at the Nasdaq MarketSite, in New York. Zynga Inc. , releases quarterly financial results Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2012, after the market close.
  6. FILE - In this Dec. 16, 2011 file photo, shows the corporate logo for Zynga on an electronic billboard at the Nasdaq MarketSite, in New York. Zynga shareholders may sell up to $400 million of stock through a public offering, three months after the online game maker went public, to try...
  7. SAN FRANCISCO, CA - DECEMBER 09: The Zynga logo is displayed on the front of the company's former headquarters on December 9, 2011 in San Francisco, California. San Francisco based social games company Zynga is preparing for its initial public offering and hopes to raise as much as...
  8. Ian Wang, lead product manager for Mafia Wars 2, gives demonstrations of the game at a Zynga event Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2011, in San Francisco. Zynga is adding more ways for people to play its Web games as it grooms its business for an initial public offering of stock. The expansion...
  9. Zynga CEO Mark Pincus speaks at a Zynga event Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2011, in San Francisco. Zynga is adding more ways for people to play its Web games as it grooms its business for an initial public offering of stock. The expansion announced Tuesday will enable Zynga's 232 million users...

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Zynga is a Web 2.0-based social network game developer located in San Francisco, California, United States. The company develops browser-based games that work both stand-alone and as application widgets on social networking websites such as Facebook and MySpace. Full Article At Wikipedia.org

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  1. On March 21, 2012, we acquired 100% of the outstanding stock of OMGPOP, Inc., a provider of social games for mobile phones, tablets and PCs, for purchase consideration of approximately $180 million in cash
    – Zynga SOURCE: Betabeat 2 months ago
  2. Facebook is nothing more than a distribution platform for other businesses like Zynga.
    SOURCE: Kotaku 2 weeks ago
  3. Zynga.com is a destination for social games built with the goal of bringing players more people to play with and more ways to play
    – Zynga SOURCE: Ecoustics 2 months ago
  4. When it comes to Facebook, while we're number two, I'd say we're a distant number two, and [Zynga has] lapped us by about three times
    – John Riccitiello SOURCE: Gamasutra 2 weeks ago
  5. Our clients are either under pretty immense pressure to innovate, because product lifecycles are so short, or they have a very broad technology portfolio. For example, automotive — nobody can cover all that.
    – Zynga SOURCE: Manufacturing.net 2 months ago
  6. We estimate that in the typical transaction, Facebook retains up to 30% of the face value of purchases, the rate disclosed for Zynga. We expect Facebook to make increased use of Facebook credits a priority in 2012.
    SOURCE: Street Insider 2 weeks ago
  7. Especially after big IPO investors have been badly burned buying into the IPOs of Zillow, Groupon and Zynga, all of which are trading well below their IPO prices. They don't want to get burned again.
    SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle 2 weeks ago
  8. We believe that smaller developers continue to pick away at the fringes and erode Zynga's leadership by targeting smaller niches, either in terms of game genres or in new geographies. In contrast, while Zynga's extensive data analysis doubtlessly aids them in retaining and monetizing existing players, i...
    SOURCE: GamesIndustry.biz 3 weeks ago
  9. We believe that smaller developers continue to pick away at the fringes and erode Zynga's leadership by targeting smaller niches, either in terms of game genres or in new geographies. In contrast, while Zynga's extensive data analysis doubtlessly aids them in retaining and monetizing existing players, i...
    SOURCE: GamesIndustry.biz 3 weeks ago
  10. We note that the larger social gaming market has grown DAUs considerably thus far in 2012 after a fairly flat 2011, while Zynga is now below its year-end 2011 social gaming DAU levels despite several high-profile launches in Q1:12.
    SOURCE: GamesIndustry.biz 3 weeks ago
  11. In 2011 and the first quarter of 2012, we estimate that up to 19 per cent and 15 per cent of our revenue, respectively, was derived from Payments processing fees from Zynga, direct advertising from Zynga, and revenue from third parties for ads shown on pages generated by Zynga apps
    SOURCE: The Register 3 weeks ago
  12. Zynga must improve monetization and retain gamers as the initial 'buzz' of the game wears off over the coming months in order to justify the ... price tag
    SOURCE: Los Angeles Times 3 weeks ago
  13. It's hard to argue with Zynga's success today ... Their aggressive culture has allowed them to run over the competition. While that's worked well in the past, I'm not sure it will serve them as well going forward.
    SOURCE: Los Angeles Times 3 weeks ago
  14. the average number of users per day is now below where it was when Zynga acquired the game. (It’s currently around 10 million, down from a peak of close to 15 million.)
    SOURCE: Betabeat 3 weeks ago
  15. You look at guys like Zynga, and they were all turned down by a huge number of investors when they were starting. Frankly, when everyone is telling us we're right that's when I really start to get worried.
    SOURCE: GamesIndustry.biz 3 weeks ago
  16. This also marks just the start of traffic and revenue generating tools that we're implementing for Zynga Platform partners. We'll soon roll out more promotions across our network for some of our other early partners, so stay tuned
    SOURCE: GamesIndustry.biz 3 weeks ago
  17. Driving players to try out new social games is one thing, but the trick is making sure they stick around; that's where some of our upcoming tools to increase social engagement come in. In March, we announced some of these tools as part of the Zynga Platform.
    SOURCE: GamesIndustry.biz 3 weeks ago
  18. Among my social-gaming friends, the mindset is not to be the next Zynga; the mindset is to sell to Zynga ... There are not so many companies with that kind of capital on hand. So the general sentiment is to build and sell. And do it again and again.
    SOURCE: ReadWriteWeb 3 weeks ago
  19. But as we saw earlier this week from Facebook s revised filing, the social game market on Facebook may be slowing a bit, and Zynga appears to be experiencing that trend as well
    SOURCE: Seeking Alpha 3 weeks ago
  20. We’ve begun adding Woodland Heroes to select Zynga games via our zBar, the bar that sits above Zynga games on Facebook and promotes other games in our network ... Row Sham Bow’s also added Zynga’s zBar across the top of Woodland Heroes to help its players discover even more games.
    SOURCE: VentureBeat 3 weeks ago
  21. We’ve begun adding Woodland Heroes to select Zynga games via our zBar, the bar that sits above Zynga games on Facebook and promotes other games in our network ... Row Sham Bow’s also added Zynga’s zBar across the top of Woodland Heroes to help its players discover even more games.
    SOURCE: VentureBeat 3 weeks ago
  22. There is some Facebook skepticism for the first time from IPO investors, mostly big mutual funds, having gotten burned badly on buying into the offerings of Pandora, Zynga and Groupon
    – Sam Hamadeh SOURCE: MarketWire 3 weeks ago
  23. CastleVille and Zynga Poker delivered record results
    SOURCE: GamesIndustry.biz 3 weeks ago
  24. What should be keeping Zynga execs up at night is the fact that the market is changing constantly and the social games don't have a lengthy history to reference
    SOURCE: GamesIndustry.biz 3 weeks ago
  25. Zynga continues to grow its overall audience, hitting 292 million monthly active users
    SOURCE: GamesIndustry.biz 3 weeks ago

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