Facebook has yet to report their Q2 2012 earnings (due out today), though major gaming company Zynga made waves by reporting their third quarterly loss since going public. Zynga have actually been trying to get away from their Facebook dependency...
Last year, advertising accounted for 85 percent of Facebook’s revenue (Zynga contributed a healthy 12 percent). Facebook commerce certainly hasn’t taken off as many predicted; is the current slump just a bump in the road or a sign of a lack of...
Zynga: [Social Games Services]). Developers can get people talking about their app with Facebook friends directly on their platform and increase engagement for the application. Promoting through Twitter and Facebook as well as pay-per-click (PPC...
With its climb has come a dedicated marketplace of Facebook ads vendors - firms such as Buddy Media, Vitrue, Context Optional, and Syncapse, as well as game developers like Zynga and Playfish. Games developer Zynga helped generate 12 percent of...
Zynga About to File for IPO - All Things DigitalFollowing LinkedIn and Yandex, filing for IPO could come this week or next week at latest. In the future, Google envisions "a single platform that enables seamless management of ads across desktop...
Facebook And Zynga Sued Over Privacy - All Facebook So how can you harness this tricky platform? Bing announced a multi-platform search experience and interactive game to help people decode Jay-Z's life and lyrics.
The objective is to give you access to the people and information you'd like to read while cutting out the clutter of game updates (yes, how many of your friends spam you with those Farmville and other Zynga calls for action?
But now with both the Metaweb buy and a reported $100-200 million investment in social gaming platform Zynga, it may well be that Google Me has more to it than just a wild rumor flying around and keeping people busy guessing.
All Facebook said the company "killed a $100 million baby" as the virtual goods ecosystem propped by the likes of gaming giant Zynga have more selling power than the virtual gift shop channel. AOL has launched the beta version of its Open.MapQuest...
Looking at the social gaming platform's track record on Facebook, one can expect those companies to also benefit from Zynga's popularity in more than one way as rich ads displays in virtual currencies get the best ROI (read: the most engaged...
It is bound to Facebook by a five-year non-exclusive deal that is set to secure the bulk of Zynga's expected revenues in excess of $355 million this year. Zynga does have amazing figures on its own record, accounting for four of the most successful...
In both its statement and blog post, Yahoo anticipates on potential privacy issue criticism, brushing away any accusations of complexity or lack of transparency by launching its Yahoo Pulse one-stop dashboard for privacy settings across the whole...
We are excited about Facebook's long-term commitment to social gaming and Zynga, and look forward to working with them and other platform providers to bring the best social gaming experience to users worldwide," he said.
According to a TechCrunch report citing an email from unnamed sources, social-gaming giant Zynga is readying to fend for itself, cutting the cord to Facebook and launching its own social gaming platform to be called Zynga Live.
