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Zynga Tightens Social Gaming Grip With Serious Business Acquisition
ADOTAS – Are we on the cusp of a big social gaming consolidation? Farmville-maker Zynga has acquired Serious Business, the developer of Facebook apps such as Friends for Sale and Rock Legends. It appears to be one of these newfangled aqui-hire deals — Serious Business employees are moving into Zynga’s offices [...] more...
Facebook Payments Operation Could Rival Paypal
ADOTAS – As it aims for a larger slice of the virtual goods pie and possibly step on PayPal’s turf, Facebook has put up notice that it is building a “payments operation” team and looking for a strategist and a payment and risks specialist. According to the classified, the payment operations [...] more...
At Crunchies, Facebook CEO Says Privacy Policy Reflects Social Norms
ADOTAS – Joan Rivers wasn’t working the red carpet, which was probably for the best as she wouldn’t have anything kind to say about the wrinkly, untucked shirts and jeans of most attendees. But last Friday’s Crunchies — hosted by TechCrunch, GigaOm and Venture Beat and now in its third [...] more...
Social Gaming and the Art of Backpedaling
ADOTAS – There’s only one way to get rid of the bitter aftertaste of arrogance — a cold pint of humility. In a video found by TechCrunch, Zynga CEO and Founder Mark Pincus relates a story about his fledgling company’s scavenger hunt for revenue at a Startup@Berkeley event, admitting that he [...] more...
Russian Investors Buy the FarmVille
ADOTAS – Perhaps Green Acres is the place to be, because farm livin’ is the pastime of millions of Facebook users. Only launched in June of this year, FarmVille — which, yes, simulates managing a farm — is the most popular game application on Facebook with more than 70 million [...] more...
Industry news on departures, hirings and finance
ADOTAS — Catalyst:SF, Acquisio, Emovendo, Zynga, MyMiniLife all had annoucements, and the url shortening niche became slightly trimmer. Tr.im, a url shortener, has decided to cease operations, concluding that what it does others can do, and the information it gathered is just sucked up by everyone else. Social gaming company Zynga has [...] more...
In Your Face: Zynga Picks Up $29M
ADOTAS – Facebook game maker Zynga has closed a second round of financing for $29 million. The round was led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Institutional Venture Partners; current investors Union Square Ventures, Avalon Ventures and Foundry Group also joined. William “Bling” Gordon, of Kleiner Perkins, will join Zynga’s [...] more...
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