Each day, Facebook game developer and FarmVille creator Zynga delivers about a petabyte of data — that’s 1 million gigabytes, or more than six Libraries of Congress — for its array of social games, chief technology officer Cadir Lee said …
DEMO Executive Producer and VentureBeat Editor in Chief Matt Marshall got the technology launchpad conference started this morning with a speech looking at some of the big trends behind the more than 60 companies demonstrating over the next two days.…
About 20 percent of the U.S. population has played a game on a social network in the past three months, according to market researcher NPD Group.
That means 56.8 million Americans ages 6 or older have played on social networks. …
Owen Van Natta is back in the game. He’s back in business. And he’s back in the games business.
Zynga, the maker of FarmVille, Mafia Wars, and other popular Facebook games, is hiring the social-networking veteran as executive vice president …
Zynga has removed its hit social game FarmVille from Microsoft’s MSN Games portal, according to a report by Inside Social Games.
The blog reported that FarmVille suggests that the game, which has more than 60 million monthly users on Facebook, …
Talk about big in Japan! Zynga, the maker of FarmVille and other popular social games, is nearing an announcement of its alliance with Japan’s SoftBank, which plans to invest around $147 million into Zynga and its Japanese subsidiary.
The deal …
Zynga’s FarmVille has more than 62 million monthly users on Facebook. And that has made it a magnet for marketing deals. The company announced that it has integrated special crops from organic food company Cascadian Farm into the FarmVille game.…
FarmVille, the obsession of millions of Facebook users, has finally made its way to Apple’s App Store, just in time for the Thursday debut of the iPhone 4. The biggest game in the world is now available for purchase and …
Zynga is the biggest success story to come out of the new wave of social game companies, bu it has been curiously absent from one of the hottest new game platforms — the iPhone. That’s changing today with chief executive …
In a prudent move to diversify its Facebook-centric audience, social game maker Zynga this morning announced a distribution deal with Yahoo that will allow game players to play games and update statuses from Yahoo’s homepage, Yahoo Games, Yahoo Messenger, and …
When you have a game enjoyed by 75 million people, you have to make changes very carefully. That’s why Zynga has been slowly rolling out a new feature in its FarmVille game, which is the most popular app on Facebook.…
Guest Post
Peter Yared is founder and CEO of social and mobile app infrastructure company Transpond.
There’s been a lot of chatter over the past few weeks about the long-term viability of social game developers. Facebook essentially shut down the viral channels …
Zynga, the hot social gaming company that may be worth $4.5 billion, has had some big swings in traffic for its games. And it’s enough to make the Zynga folks feel like they’re on a roller coaster.
SecondShares.com noted that …
New details emerged today on Facebook Credits, a long-awaited virtual currency on the social network that will likely have a lot of impact on how much money is made by Facebook’s ecosystem partners.
The discussion at a session at the …
Mark Pincus, chief executive of Zynga, runs the most successful social game company on Facebook, with more than 252 million monthly active users for games such as FarmVille.
His company has nearly 800 employees and is worth, by one educated …
Facebook is now the most popular site in the U.S., according to analytics firm Hitwise. In the week ending March 13, 2010, Facebook surpassed the previous most popular site, Google, in terms of overall traffic for the week.
Facebook sat …
