Survey finds Facebook Gifts has great potential, Promoted Posts is a big dud

Facebook recently introduced two consumer-facing products designed to help it bring in more dough. One looks to be a money-making bonanza while the other seems to have flop written all over it.

GameStop beats Wall Street’s low expectations for second-quarter earnings

GameStop reported numerous losses for its second-quarter earnings, but digital sales rose.

Zynga sees FarmVille and CityVille user spikes [UPDATE: Maybe not]

A report from brokerage firm Sterne Agee reveals that the social game company's daily active users saw massive peaks over the past week.

Despite Star Wars slowdown, analysts aren’t in despair over EA’s performance

Electronic Arts‘ flagship online game, Star Wars: The Old Republic, isn’t doing so well, but the big video game publisher is so well diversified that the impact on the company’s bottom line isn’t as bad as it could have been, …

Why Facebook’s stock is struggling despite phenomenal revenue growth

Investors, trusting Facebook as far as they can see it, have sent the social network’s stock tumbling down to bottom-of-the-barrel lows.

Shares were absolutely hammered in after-hours trading Thursday and again early Friday, dipping all the way down to $22.28 …

Analysts and game industry reeling from Zynga’s shocking earnings report, stock down 39 percent

Zynga's weak earnings report yesterday has spurred an investor panic, cratering the company's stock price by 39 percent today.

The road to IPO: Here’s how Facebook grew from $3.50 to $38 a share

It’s official: Facebook is a public company.

With all the hype around Facebook’s big day and the obsession with who’s-getting-rich numbers, its easy to forget to that we’ve had a front row view of Facebook’s ascendance to $38 a share, …

Can Facebook stay cool now that it’s an enormous public corporation?

“A million dollars isn’t cool. You know what’s cool? A billion dollars,” Sean Parker says in the famous line from “The Social Network.”

Trite though the line may be, Facebook, valued at $104 billion, is in the process of minting …

Facebook’s opening price values Instagram at $1.27B and Kevin Systrom at $506M

Facebook is looking mighty fine today — especially if you’re Instagram, the photo-sharing company that sold its hit mobile application to the social network one month ago for a cool $1 billion in cash and stock.

But wait. Did we …

Analysts disappointed with EA’s outlook but see bright points

Electronic Arts shareholders are being sorely tested again after the video game giant posted good earnings but warned about a tough quarter ahead. The stock has fallen 4.8 percent today to $14.41 a share, valuing EA at $4.77 billion. Now the analysts are weighing in.

Wall Street analysts calculate whether Zynga is worth $8.9B

Zynga is about to begin trading as a public company on Thursday, but the value of the company is up for debate, based on reports from some well-known Wall Street analysts and other financial experts.

The San Francisco-based social gaming …