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. Wednesday, Zynga said they’ve been fighting increasing operating costs and...
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. Social Media Social media channels are a great way to increase...
Games developer Zynga helped generate 12 percent of Facebook's revenues last year. 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...
Google once again used its valuable homepage space to promote the popular Zynga game, just as it promoted Google Offers and the opening of Google+ recently. CityVille is Zynga’s largest game on Facebook, with about 70 million users per month...
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...
He noted that companies built on Facebook, such as Zynga, were already using paid search to drive users to engage with their fan pages. Echoing the upbeat outlook, Matt Lawson of Marin Software said that search marketers had a lot to gain from the...
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?
With Google's recent acquisition of Slideand investment in Zynga, they have shown their further commitment to pursuing areas outside of search. Google is to add another piece to their move into the social and online gaming space, as TechCrunch...
Last month, Google was already tipped to have invested somewhere around $150 million in social gaming platform Zynga. The company never confirmed this expenditure but CEO Eric Schmidt's statement to the Wall Street Journal last week was quite clear...
Zynga as well is "big in Japan" at the moment, as it is setting up a joint-venture with Softbank who has also completed its $150 million investment in the social gaming platform. The companies said in a blog post that the joint venture will...
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.
Social gaming platform Zynga also had cause to celebrate as Frontierville reached its 20 millionth player - or virtual pioneer, is it? Zynga's Frontierville Registers 20-Millionth User According to Forbes, the title is currently Zynga's third most...
And finally, the various reports that seem promising and need be factored into any analysis of Google's future performance, including: its teaming up with Verizon to rival the iPad; its upcoming Newspass paywall; the possible foray into music...
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...
Reports have it that Google has invested between $100 million and $200 million in social gaming platform Zynga. However, the reported Google-Zynga link would totally change the perspective and help Google kill two birds with one stone (no, no...
The role of Zynga on Facebook's platform is best proof. Steve Jobs has claimed, "Search is not happening on phones; people are using apps", and whilst at SEW we only somewhat agree with this statement, we do concur that 'content discovery' has...
Social games' virtual currencies - and yes, inevitably, Zynga. And speaking of Farmville, its developer, Zynga immediately springs to mind. It is bound to Facebook by a five-year non-exclusive deal that is set to secure the bulk of Zynga's expected...
Social gaming platform Zynga is reported to have raised $147 million (13.5 billion yen) from Japanese telecommunication and media group Softbank to fund its expansion in Asia, the region that is widely tapped to be the market with greatest...
