New York VC Fred Wilson shared his thoughts today on what makes good founders and what you shouldn't do in a pitch meeting.
Almost exactly a year after Zynga bought one-hit wonder OMGPOP for a cool $200 million, OMGPOP chief executive Dan Porter has been replaced by Zynga VP Sean Kelly.
Mobile and web analytics company Mixpanel has just launched a new product to help companies track their best sources of revenue.
In every year, there are winners and losers: companies, devices, operating systems. Here's our look at some of the biggest successes and failures of 2012.
Tonight, Game Closure's 27-year-old chief executive took the stage at StartX's demo day to inspire fellow entrepreneurs with the company's founding story.
Zynga’s bad day on July 25 when the company reported horrible earnings turned into a bad week when investors found out that insiders cashed out just three months prior and sued the company for insider trading.
Now that bad week …
Soon after Zynga’s crash-and-burn quarter reduced its stock to the $3 level, five legal firms have announced investigations into allegations of insider trading.
The problem?
As we reported before, Zynga executives and investors, including CEO Marc Pincus, sold over $500 …
Three months before releasing a quarterly earnings report that slaughtered an already-decimated stock, Zynga executives and investors unloaded some of their stock, raking in more than $500 million dollars. Now, multiple law firms are investigating whether the company or its …
Zynga insiders, including chief executive Marc Pincus, cashed out in April, selling 43 million shares for over $516 million -- just before the stock price cratered.
What do you do if you bought a $200 million baby that everyone thinks is ugly? Well, if you’re social games pioneer Zynga, you bring it to network TV.
Draw Something, the game that saved small studio OMGPOP and prompted …
Today AppStats is launching a new window on who’s winning and who’s losing in Facebook apps. The app analytics site, created by Berlin-based newsmag Social Games Observer, reveals which apps and developers are growing audience, and which are shrinking.
In …
To mark Zynga‘s stock-market debut, we’re releasing a 63-page e-book on the history of the company.
In just five years, social-gaming company Zynga has gone from scrappy, sometimes-shady underdog, to multi-billion dollar company. On Friday, Zynga capped of the first …
Zynga may float its initial public offering after the Nov. 24 Thanksgiving holiday, according to two sources close to the matter who spoke with Bloomberg.
The social game maker, responsible for titles such as Farmville and Empires & Allies, filed …
Zynga founder Mark Pincus (pictured far left) will benefit the most from his company’s planned initial public offering, according to Zynga’s SEC filing.
The company, the creator of massively popular social games like Farmville and CityVille, has yet to specify …
After shutting down offers on its social games because of accusations of scam ads, social game firm Zynga is bringing them back under tighter controls.
Mark Pincus, chief executive of the largest social game company, said in a blog post …
Electronic Arts confirmed rumors this morning as it acquired Playfish for $300 million in cash and stock. The move gets EA into the social gaming market on Facebook in a big way.
The value of the deal — $275 million …
