Google Acquires Jambool
Technology giant Google has acquired another company in its stable by purchasing San Francisco-based Jambool Inc. Jambool’s business lies on manufacturing software that gives providers of online games...
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Zynga Workplace Employees Reveals Tough Work Culture
Zynga, the famous maker of the network of virtual cities, farms, and poker tables; the beloved CityVille, FarmVille and Mafia Wars, receives praise for the company’s swift success but also gets a...
View ArticleVirtual Goods Market will reach $2.9 Billion by 2012
The United States market for virtual goods will make around $2.9 billion next year based on a report released by the Inside Virtual Goods. This is an increase from 2011’s $2.2 billion and 2010’s $1.6...
View ArticleFacebook success generates a large collection of startups
Facebook has long considered itself a platform not a mere website. It positions itself as an Internet device where users can interact with content and other users. It is more than a destination, it is...
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Is Zynga’s Collapse the Future of Social Gaming?
Social gaming used to be the buzz word in game development. Regardless of where you hobnobbed, whether it’s at E3 Game Developers’ Conference in San Francisco, or at Gamescom, the buzz word that...
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Zynga sued by EA over SimCity Social “Similarities”
When it rains it pours. Indeed, when you’re having a tough time, expect more bad news. This can’t be any truer for the previous social media darling, Zynga. Zynga put social gaming on the map by...
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Zynga promotes New Chief Creative Officer
Social gaming pioneer Zynga’s been through the wringer lately-falling stock price, revenue issues, and an exodus of top talent. Well, Zynga does have a talent backbench and while many high-level...
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More Bad News For Zynga
Only a few years ago, the latest and greatest vision for gaming’s future laid not in fancy graphics, not in massively multiplayer rich environments and not in very deep score lines. The future of this...
View ArticleZynga Starts Accepting Bit Coin Payments
The company behind the popular social games like Farmville and Mafia Wars, as well as Zynga poker, has announced that it’s starting to take bit coin payments for some of its online games. This is great...
View ArticleZynga’s Woes Continue with Shutdown of Yoville
Zynga, the biggest name in social gaming, is, of course, well known for Farmville. But did you know that Farmville is actually a later spin off of an earlier game. That’s right. If you’re a big...
View ArticleZynga Tries To Reinvent Itself As A Mobile Game Maker
Zynga, the embattled social gaming company, is making news again. It has paid 527 million dollars for NaturalMotion, a mobile game maker. While a lot of critics are saying that this was too much money...
View ArticleZynga Lays Off 314 Employees
This is painful news. As you probably already know, the US economy is kind of schizophrenic. Certain parts of the economy is just growing like gangbusters. If you don’t mind working in a very cold...
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