Zynga reported net income of $12.5 million in the third quarter ended Sept. 30, down 54 percent from $27 million a year ago, according to an updated S1 filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The performance isn’t stellar, but …
Social game maker Zynga is about to launch a new game, CastleVille, in its ongoing bid to keep on the path toward an initial public offering. The game will go live in the next couple of weeks.
The launch of …
Enterprise software startup Atlassian announced Tuesday that is moving its collaboration and development products, including JIRA and Confluence, to the cloud with an innovative pricing structure.
Atlassian‘s products, especially bug-and-issue tracker JIRA, are important to enterprise and small clients alike. …
Zynga may be losing some ground after spending years completely dominating the Facebook social gaming market.
Facebook today announced that it is changing the way it counts the number of active users who access an application on its site, a …
Zynga made some changes to its accounting and disclosed new stock repurchases, setting off alarm bells at one analyst firm that studies the value of private companies.
It seems like a small accounting change, but it shifted Zynga’s last financial …
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Social gaming giant Zynga has decided to list its shares on the tech-heavy NASDAQ stock exchange, according to a recent filing with the securities and exchange commission.
The NYSE has dueled with the NASDAQ stock market to attract high-profile tech …
No single game maker dominates smartphone and tablet games the way Zynga is dominating social games on Facebook. But now Zynga may have its sights set on dominion over the mobile market too.
The company is stepping up efforts to …
Amid a host other game announcements, Zynga unveiled its newest “Ville” game, CastleVille, at the Zynga Unleashed event this week. CastleVille certainly seems more ambitious than other games — it has better graphics than Zynga’s other titles and the soundtrack …
Electronic Arts came out of nowhere when it launched The Sims Social on Facebook. The social game that simulates human life took off like wildfire, surpassing FarmVille and closing in on Zynga’s most popular game, CityVille. Now Raptr, the social …
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Mark Pincus, chief executive of Zynga, has been out of the public eye for months, mainly due to regulatory restrictions on what CEOs of companies filing for initial public offerings can say in public. But yesterday, he finally got on …
Zynga showed it is open to moving into new genres as it launched its first game in the popular “hidden object” category yesterday with Hidden Chronicles on Facebook.
This genre has untapped potential on Facebook, according to Sean Ryan, head …
Social gaming giant Zynga is breaking away from Facebook and other social networking sites by building its own independent website with Project Z. The company gave press an early look at the service today, which will come out later this …
Zynga is announcing 10 new social games today, , showing off the firepower of the company recent acquisitions of game development talent.
To date, Zynga has only launched one game at a time. But at the company’s new headquarters in …
Social gaming giant Zynga today announced it is bringing its latest online social game, Mafia Wars 2, to Google’s online social network, Google+.
Mafia Wars 2 is a deeper and more graphically appealing version of Mafia Wars, which was one …
Social gaming company Zynga today unveiled Zynga Direct, its new online distribution service. It will give Zynga a way to deliver its games to players on computers or mobile devices, without having to go through Facebook.
“It’s a platform for …
As part of a big game platform Zynga is announcing today, the company is launching three new titles that will run across platforms and can be embedded in Facebook’s new mobile iPad app. The three new games use the HTML5 …
As annoying as it is to get Farmville requests from friends on Facebook, now there may be no way to escape the popular game: Farmville in talks to be made into a movie.
Alec Sokolow and Joel Cohen, writers on …
Hoping to extend a social game franchise, 6waves Lolapps is launching its new Ravenskye City game today.
The game is an expansion of the existing Raven series of games that have been a major hit for 6waves Lolapps. If it …
Zynga unveiled details of its Mafia Wars 2 game today, a deeper and more graphically appealing version of its early social game Mafia Wars, which was released in the ancient days of Facebook in April 2008.
The original Mafia Wars …
