At the height of the FarmVille craze, back in 2010, there were two kinds of Facebook users: those who were addicted to …
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Zynga Plunges 40% in Tech Bloodbath
As global economic conditions worsen, tech companies have little margin for error.
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Draw Something Now Lets You Save, Share and Comment On Drawings
When I tried Draw Something for the first time, my thoughts were, “Cool! Can I save this picture that I spent 20 minutes drawing?”
Sadly, the answer was no. Today, nearly a month after its $200 million acquisition by Zynga, it …
Zynga Announces Acquisition of Draw Something Creator OMGPOP
Zynga announced today in a press call that it has acquired New York-based OMGPOP, creator of Draw Something, the Pictionary-style game that has been downloaded more than 35 million times. While it was rumored that the price would …
Facebook and Zynga May Escape the Latest ‘Patent Troll’ Suit
A new patent troll last week fired a shot at Facebook, Zynga and others with a lawsuit that claims rights to in-game payments—the process that lets players buy and sell virtual items within a video game.
Zynga IPO May Happen Mid-to-Late November
With all the furor over Groupon’s IPO offering, it isn’t the biggest surprise to discover that many businesses have been watching the story unfold intently. What might be more of a surprise is discovering that one of those businesses is social gaming company Zynga, who’ve been waiting to see whether or not it goes successfully enough for …
MoneyVille: Zynga Files for IPO, Looks to Raise $1 Billion
San Francisco-based Zynga, makers of that game on Facebook you don’t play but you always see the weirdos you’re barely even friends with talking about how they found a wicker basket full of baby ducks, has just filed for an IPO. The company is hoping to raise $1 billion.
That’d be a mighty big haul, but with all the “crazy” IPO …
Cash Crop: ‘FarmVille’ Maker Zynga Preparing for IPO?
As anyone who’s ever been bombarded by others’ status updates knows, no company better represents the current shift in the gaming landscape than Zynga. The casual game revolution caught fire on social networks like Facebook and brought in millions of players who are otherwise uninterested in hardcore console and PC games. Now, rumors …
Lady Gaga Partners with Zynga For… GagaVille?
Let’s play a game. On one hand you have Lady Gaga: living-breathing performance artist, best-selling singer, and wearer of designer dresses made of tenderized meat. On the other, Zynga: creators of mass appeal time-sucks like FarmVille, FrontierVille, and a game I should really be a lot better at, Words With Friends. What do these two …
What’s Zynga Planning Next?
Zynga has managed to capture the attention of 72 million active users, who obsessively play their simple, mindless games every day. Whether you want to be a farmer, mafia don or city planner, these games tap into a fantasy life that most users could never dream of leading. For five minutes a day, Zynga users sneak time from their home …
“Farmville” Enters the “English Countryside” to Entice Old Players to Return
What’s better than having one farm on Farmville?
Having two farms –- and subsequently no social life –- of course! Last week, Zynga slowly rolled out Farmville English Countryside, the biggest expansion to Farmville since the launch of the game. English Countryside gives players level 20 and above an additional farm to tend …
Zynga Poker Hacker Gets Two Years in Jail
A 29-year-old former UK council accounts clerk was just sentenced to two years in prison, plus a 30-week suspended sentence. His crime? Impersonating two employees, Ashley Mitchell repeatedly hacked into Zynga’s database and transferred more than $12 million worth of in-game currency to his own accounts. He then went on the Zynga black …
