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  • Zynga Loses Ad Chief Manny Anekal To Mobile Monetization Startup Kiip Zynga’s Global Director of Brand Advertising Manny Anekal who led the company to a 233% increase in ad revenue this year is leaving to become COO of Kiip, which lets brands reward gamers with real world prizes. Anekal is a monetization ...
  • Zynga to Present at the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media and Telecom Conference SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 21, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Zynga Inc. (Nasdaq:ZNGA) announced today that Mark Pincus, Chief Executive Officer, will participate in a question-and-answer session at the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media & Telecom Conference ...
  • Expedia Is A Buy As Zynga Inevitably Falls Amidst all of the valuation talk surrounding Facebook, which sounds eerily reminiscent of the chatter leading up to the dot-com crash, investors are forgetting about online firms with stronger, albeit more mundane, fundamentals. Based on my ...
  • Zynga Angles For Facebook Independence After reporting lackluster fourth quarter results, hurt by higher game development costs, social game maker Zynga Inc. (ZNGA) is gearing up to turn publisher, much akin to its closest competitor Electronic Arts Inc. (EA). According to a recent ...
  • Zynga Said to Plan Game Promotions to Curb Facebook Reliance Feb. 16 (Bloomberg) -- Zynga Inc., the online-game company that sold shares to the public in December, plans to unveil services designed to promote other developers and lessen its dependence on Facebook Inc., two people with knowledge of the ...
  • Zynga posts loss on pricey stock compensation costs The World News (WN) Network, has created this privacy statement in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to user privacy. The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for wn.com, as well as e-mail newsletters.
  • Zynga (ZNGA) Announces Launch of Slingo, Inc. for Social Media Zynga (NASDAQ: ZNGA) today announced the global launch of Zynga Slingo a new, social take on one of the most popular casual games of all time. Available to play today on Facebook, Zynga Slingo gives players a serendipitous, yet skillful slots game with a ...
  • Zynga Ramps Up Private Cloud Infrastructure zCloud; Now Stores 1.4 Petabytes Of Data As mentioned in yesterday’s earnings call, Zynga revealed that the company’s zCloud, its private cloud infrastructure has been scaling significantly in the past year. At the start of 2011, only 20% of Zynga’s daily active users (DAU) were ...
  • Zynga Tumbles as Game-Development Costs Crimp Profit Feb. 15 (Bloomberg) -- Zynga Inc., the biggest developer of games for Facebook Inc.’s site, fell as much as 11 percent in late trading yesterday after product-development costs weighed on profit. Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation ...
  • Zynga Debuts First Licensed Game, Partners With Slingo For Bingo-Meets-Slots Facebook Title After announcing a licensing deal with Hasbro last week, Zynga is debuting another licensing agreement. The social gaming giant is teaming up with game developer Slingo to license casual game Slingo; and launch a social Facebook title Zynga ...
  • Zynga fails to impress Zynga failed to boost the ranks of its online players compared to the earlier quarter, fanning worries that it will have to rely on new games and other ways to squeeze more revenue out of its users. The stock fell 6.5%, or 93 cents, to $13.42 after-hours.
  • Zynga Reports Tough Quarter but May Be Playing a Long Game Online game maker Zynga (Nasdaq: ZNGA) reported a net loss during its first quarter as a publicly traded company, due mostly to heavy stock compensation from its IPO and an increase in research and development costs. Revenue at Zynga, however, was up 59 ...
  • Zynga user growth disappoints, shares fall Zynga Inc failed to boost the ranks of its online gamers in its first quarter as a public company, fanning worries that it will have to rely on new games and other ways to squeeze more revenue out of existing users. The stock fell 81 cents, or 6 ...
  • Zynga’s First Post IPO Earnings: Stable Not Stellar Social games company Zynga has just reported its first financial earnings since going public back in December. For Q4 2011, Zynga reported record bookings and 153 million monthly unique users. The company reported non-GAAP (Generally Accepted ...
  • Zynga posts 4Q net loss, higher revenue (AP) Online game maker Zynga says it booked a net loss in the fourth quarter, weighed by hefty stock-compensation expenses and other costs in its first quarter as a public company. Zynga Inc. lost $435 million, or $1.22 per share, in the period.
  • Zynga Slips To Loss In Q4 - Quick Facts (RTTNews) - Zynga Inc. (ZNGA: News ) reported that its fourth-quarter net loss attributable to common stockholders was $435.01 million, compared to net income of $16.06 million in the same quarter last year. On per share basis, net loss for the quarter was ...
  • Zynga reports 4th-quarter net loss, higher revenue in first quarterly report since IPO NEW YORK - Online game maker Zynga says it booked a net loss in the fourth quarter, weighed by hefty stock-compensation expenses and other costs in its first quarter as a public company. Zynga Inc. lost $435 million, or $1.22 per share, in the ...
  • Zynga Is Being Sued For Patent Infringement Zynga is being sued, but not for the reasons you may have assumed. Zynga has been accused in the past of liberally borrowing ideas from other developers, but this lawsuit is over the use of patents, and deal with the inner workings and behind ...
  • Zynga Surging Near Record Highs Ahead Of Q4 Results Update: Facebook gaming giant Zynga shares shot up nearly 7% in early afternoon trading to 14.32, near record highs as the recent IPO prepares to release its first earnings report as a public company. Zynga shares surged to an all-time peak at ...
  • Zynga, Hasbro tie up to make toys, games Hasbro, Inc., the iconic American toy company, and social game company Zynga, Inc. announced last week they will team up to develop toys and games based on Zynga games such as FarmVille, CityVille and Mafia Wars, which are popular on social media Web site ...
  • Zynga is Sued by Personalized Media Communications for Infringing Four Patents SUGAR LAND, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Personalized Media Communications, LLC (PMC) has filed a patent suit in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas against Zynga, Inc. (Zynga) NASDAQ: ZNGA, the largest social game developer, for ...
  • Zynga eyes up a full house The billion dollar computer game company that provides Facebook with 12 per cent of its revenue has revealed its latest hit game - Bingo. San Francisco firm Zynga, which recently hit the headlines when Alec Baldwin was kicked off a flight for refusing to ...
  • Hasbro inks deals with Zynga to make new board games Pawtucket, R.I.-based Hasbro has struck a deal with San Francisco’s Zynga, the maker of popular Facebook games such as Farmville, Mafia Wars and Words With Friends, to translate those digital games into physical board games. “Obviously, we ...
  • Zynga teams with toymaker Hasbro – Does this mean “MonopolyVille?” Will “FarmVille” plush cows or a “Yahtzee With Friends” game be heading our way later this year? A deal announced Thursday between San Francisco’s Zynga Inc. and toyland powerhouse Hasbro Inc. paves the way for those possibilities ...
  • Zynga coming to a board game near you, courtesy of Hasbro Zynga will allow the toymaker Hasbro to create games and toys based on its online properties, the two companies said. While no products have yet been confirmed, the deal will produce real world products based on online games like "FarmVille.
  • Hasbro Adopts Zynga Characters for Toys, Board Games Hasbro--the multinational toy and board game company that owns brands such as Candyland, Play-Doh, Mr. Potato Head, NERF, Monopoly, Ouiji and more-- will be partnering with the leading social media game creator, Zynga, in order to produce new toys.
  • Hasbro to develop toys based on Zynga games NEW YORK (AP) -- Online game maker Zynga Inc. of "FarmVille" fame has signed a licensing deal with Hasbro Inc. to give the toy company the rights to develop toys and games based on its brands. Zynga, which reports its fourth-quarter earnings ...
  • Facebook’s Amended S-1 Exhibits Zynga Agreement Filed Last Year Facebook has just filed an amendment to its S-1 that exhibits the agreements between it and Zynga. These 2 developer agreement documents are the same as those filed in Zynga’s own S-1 amendment from last year and don’t include significant ...
  • Nexon invades Zynga’s turf with plan to launch Kart Rider on Facebook Nexon and Zynga are dueling to be the darlings of the new game industry. Nexon grew up with free-to-play online games that you download over the web to a computer. Zynga dominates the casual game market on Facebook. Now Nexon is moving in on ...
  • Zynga Inc : Strong Facebook dependance Zynga is a social game developer, whose games, as Farmville accounted for 12% of Facebook revenue in 2011. This company was introduced on Nasdaq stock exchange on December 15th, with a price of 10 USD. The share, as all social media stocks, benefits last ...
  • Zynga Rigging Poker Games? The world’s largest online poker room, Zynga Poker, is being accused of rigging poker games. The free-to-play poker application came under fire on social news website Reddit.com by a former contractor. From PokerUpdate.com: The post came from the user ...
  • Facebook Updates Its IPO Filing To Confirm Its Special Relationship With Zynga Find out more out the future of disruptive technology and companies like Facebook, Google, Zynga, Disney, NBC and more at IGNITION West! Facebook and Zynga do indeed have a special arrangement, according to a filing with the Securities and ...
  • Short sellers target social network stocks Short selling in Groupon and Zynga also touched post-initial public offering highs last week, according to Data Explorers, which collects stock-lending data. Bearish bets on social networking groups have risen as many traders worry that ...
  • Ex-Zynga Engineer Tears into Former Company of Reddit Somebody claiming to be a former Zynga software engineer took to Reddit over the weekend to bash the social games company for allegedly tailoring games to maximize compulsive playing, cobbling together code haphazardly, treating all but the biggest ...
  • Ex-Zynga Engineer Tears Into Former Company on Reddit Somebody claiming to be a former Zynga software engineer took to Reddit over the weekend to bash the social games company for allegedly tailoring games to maximize compulsive playing, cobbling together code haphazardly, treating all but the biggest ...
  • Former Zynga Engineer: They Don’t Care About Fun, Focus Everything On Big “Whale” Spenders I’ll start this out the way that it really should be started – with a warning to have your grain of salt ready. From the some-guy-is-bashing-his-former-company-on-reddit files, it appears that Zynga focuses the large majority of their ...
  • Zynga’s First Super Bowl Commercial … Kind Of Zynga’s popular puzzle game Words With Friends was featured in Best Buy’s Super Bowl commercial yesterday, calling attention to the game’s founders as some of the “greatest mobile innovators.” The game, which is a take on Scrabble, has ...
  • Facebook Needs Zynga But Hard To Justify Stock Price Above $10.20 Zynga is the leader in social gaming and is charging forward in the mobile gaming space by acquiring mobile gaming studios and launching new mobile games on iOS and Android. We know that almost all of Zynga’s revenues are generated by Facebook ...
  • Perception, Opportunity in Volatility - Research & Analysis on Zynga Inc and Gilead Sciences, Inc. HONG KONG--(Marketwire -02/06/12)- This morning, www.MarketFoundations.com announced new reports highlighting Zynga Inc (NASDAQ: ZNGA - News) and Gilead Sciences, Inc. (NASDAQ: GILD - News). Free research downloads are available at www ...
  • Report: Zynga Insider Spills his Guts, Talks Spying and Bad Math A user over on Reddit, claiming to be a former Software Engineer at social games giant Zynga, has not only gone and posted the rather dense separation letter he received upon quitting the company (above), but done a little extra guts spilling at the same time.
  • Zynga Shares Jump After Facebook IPO Filing: San Francisco Mover Feb. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Zynga Inc., the biggest developer of games for social-networking sites, climbed 26 percent in two days, boosted by Facebook Inc.’s initial public offering filing. The shares rose 8.1 percent to $13.39 at the close ...
  • Zynga Shares: To Infinity And Beyond? Zynga shares are off to the races again as the Facebook IPO love has extended for a second straight day. Facebook disclosed late Wednesday that 12% of its revenue came from Zynga, which has investors giddy that the gaming company has such a big ...
  • Insider Hot Stocks: Zynga, Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Cemex VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Feb. 3, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Insiderslab.com has issued insider trading reports and Equity Research for the following companies: Zynga /quotes/zigman/7720406/quotes/nls/znga ZNGA +8.11%, Green Mountain ...
  • Investors ‘like’ Zynga & Facebook friends What’s not to like? Facebook’s tech friends yesterday shared in the good market vibes following the social network’s IPO push — their shares posting healthy advances as investors wore out the “BUY” button. Shares of Web 2.0 companies Zynga ...
  • Zynga Shares: To Infinity And Beyond? Zynga shares are off to the races again as the Facebook IPO love has extended for a second straight day. Facebook disclosed late Wednesday that 12% of its revenue came from Zynga, which has investors giddy that the gaming company has such a big ...
  • Zynga Shares: To Infinity And Beyond? Zynga shares are off to the races again as the Facebook IPO love has extended for a second straight day. Facebook disclosed late Wednesday that 12% of its revenue came from Zynga, which has investors giddy that the gaming company has such a big ...
  • Zynga Shares Soar as Much as 22 Percent on Facebook Connection (REUTERS) -- Zynga shares jumped as much as 22 percent on Thursday in the first trading session after Facebook revealed it made 12 percent of its revenue last year from the video game publisher. On Wednesday, Facebook listed Zynga, the maker of ...
  • Zynga shares soar on Facebook connection Zynga shares jumped as much as 22 percent on Thursday in the first trading session after Facebook revealed it made 12 percent of its revenue last year from the video game publisher. On Wednesday, Facebook listed Zynga, the maker of the "FarmVille" and ...
  • Zynga, Qualcomm, EA, lead tech gains SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Big gains from Zynga Inc., and advances from Qualcomm Inc. and Electronic Arts Inc. highlighted trading in tech stocks Thursday, with many investors taking the day to assess Facebook Inc.’s filing for a $5 ...