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| Nov 6, 2012 | Philly Tech Talks: event series has engineers talk about scaling web products | From First Round Capital and startups Perceptual Networks and DuckDuckGo comes Philly Tech Talks, a series of free talks for engineers with a specific focus: how do you scale a product?
Philly Tech Talks hopes to create a space for engineer... |
| Dec 6, 2011 | Using dynamics from gaming to improve people’s health | Games lure people to make visits at specific
times… can they help patients keep medical
appointments?
By Sarah Mahoney
This past October I attended the Health 2.0 conference, where there was a lot of discussion on the use of niche social ne... |
| Nov 7, 2011 | Zynga said to eye post-Thanksgiving IPO window | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Zynga may float its initial public offering after the Nov. 24 Thanksgiving holiday, according to two sources close to the matter who sp... |
| Oct 9, 2011 | Ugh: Zynga’s Farmville in talks for movie treatment | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
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 ... |
| Sep 17, 2011 | The Mobile Picture Wars, The Moskovitz Manifesto, And Other Big Themes From TC Disrupt SF | TechCrunch Disrupt 2011 is over. After three days of launches, pivots, interviews, and demos, I’ve finally had a chance to catch up on sleep and digest what just happened. In no particular order, here are my thematic takeaways from this yea... |
| Jul 1, 2011 | Zynga IPO mints a new multi-billionaire: Mark Pincus | 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... |
| Jul 1, 2011 | Zynga IPO mints a new multi-billionaire: Mark Pincus | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Zynga founder Mark Pincus (pictured far left) will benefit the most from his company’s planned initial public offering, according to Zy... |
| May 5, 2011 | 'FarmVille' With Live Animals. No, Really | “The online farmers will not be able to choose to grow cannabis or bananas, but undoubtedly there will be some strange decisions, some decisions I would not have made.”
— Richard Morris, farmer
Because it’s hard hitting journalism week here... |
| Apr 29, 2011 | Marvel Entertainment’s new MMO game will be free to play | Marvel Entertainment’s new Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO) super-hero game will be free to play, the company announced yesterday at a San Francisco event with game development partner Gazillion.
Considering the value of Marvel’s intellec... |
| Apr 25, 2011 | Frito-Lay Brings Consumers into Its Kitchen | |
| Apr 15, 2011 | Trion Brings Twitter and YouTube Into The Online Gaming Experience | When I was growing up, games were played offline — whether it was Number Munchers on an Apple2GS, or Super Mario Bros. on Nintendo’s NES console. But, needless to say, that 8-bit world is miles behind us.
Like it has done to every other ind... |
| Dec 30, 2010 | VentureBeat’s top 10 VC startup fundings in 2010 | It was the best of times, it was the worst of times — at least for Silicon Valley startups in 2010. While many smaller, lesser known newbies languished as venture capital investments declined overall, those that did score, scored big, and h... |
| Nov 10, 2010 | Open Mobile Summit: 4 Ways to Monetize Apps | This morning’s focus at the Open Mobile Summit in San Francisco was how developers can make money with their apps. Several high-profile developers and app publishers were on hand to provide their insights on the various ways they’ve success... |
| Oct 18, 2010 | Former Zynga exec lands at VC firm Maveron | Andrew Trader, an early team member of red-hot gaming startup Zynga, is now joining venture capital firm Maveron, the company told VentureBeat late Monday.
Trader, known as “A.T.”, built and managed all business operations at Zynga as vice ... |
| Oct 9, 2010 | XKCD Updates Its Map: We No Longer Live In Actual Countries But Digital Ones | A lot has changed since illustrator Randall Monroe drew up the original XKCD “Map Of Online Communities” in 2007. In testament to how far we as Internet denizens have come, earlier this week XKCD updated its beloved classic to more accurate... |
| Oct 6, 2010 | What you need to know - Wednesday 10/06/10 | Eventbrite raises $20M, AppNexus raises $50M, Yahoo buys Dapper
AppNexus raised $50 million in a Series C round of funding. Investors including Microsoft, Venrock, Kodiak Venture Partners, and First Round Capital.
Eventbrite has raised $20 ... |
| Oct 5, 2010 | Old McDonald’s has a new FarmVille deal with Zynga | Want FarmVille Cash with that?
Zynga, the San Francisco-based social games maker, has announced to players of FarmVille that it’s teaming up with McDonald’s, the fast-food chain.
In a brief announcement on the official FarmVille blog, the c... |
| Aug 16, 2010 | A FarmVille That Matters: Charity:Water's Site Raised $3 Million Last Year | It’s been a year since charity:water launched its site that organizes “give-up-your-birthday” campaigns, where people ask for donations instead of presents and the money goes to build wells in Africa. It’s a win-win: You get less stuff, the... |
| Jun 23, 2010 | FarmVille makes its way to the App Store for iPhone 4 debut | 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 can be used with App... |
| Jun 23, 2010 | FarmVille makes its way to the App Store for iPhone 4 debut | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
FarmVille, the obsession of millions of Facebook users, has finally made its way to Apple’s App Store, just in time for the Thursday de... |
| Jun 7, 2010 | FarmVille Coming To The iPhone In Late June, Jobs Pronounces Zynga "Zenya" | Zynga’s hit game Farmville is coming to the iPhone, says the gaming giant’s CEO Mark Pincus at this morning’s WWDC keynote. This should make the 35 million daily players of Farmville players overjoyed, as now they can create their virtual f... |
| Mar 27, 2010 | How To Make Facebook, FedEx, And Amazon More Fun | Editor’s note: Should everything be a game? In this guest post, Gabe Zichermann argues that fun is good and that game mechanics will find their way into all sorts of products and businesses. Zichermann is the CEO of professional mobile soci... |
| Mar 22, 2010 | What's In The Health Care Bill? According To Google, A Bit Of Farmville. | Look, I know Farmville is popular. Okay, really popular. Okay, insanely popular. And while it does have plenty of mainstream appeal, I still find it hard to believe that it has controlled two of the top “Hot Searches” items (for the U.S.) a... |
| Mar 15, 2010 | Facebook ousts Google as most popular U.S. site | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Facebook is now the most popular site in the U.S.... |
| Mar 15, 2010 | Facebook ousts Google as most popular U.S. site | 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 at ... |
| Feb 4, 2010 | FarmVille Ready To Harvest A New Crop Of Users With MSN Games Partnership | Zynga’s smash hit FarmVille is about to reach a new audience of future tractor riding, crop harvesting fiends. Today, the company announced that FarmVille will now be featured on MSN Games, Microsoft’s casual gaming portal. This marks the f... |
| Feb 4, 2010 | Zynga launches hit game FarmVille on MSN Games | Now that Zynga‘s FarmVille game has proven to be a smash hit on Facebook, the company is launching the game on Microsoft’s MSN Games portal.
That’s a big deal because it shows that Zynga is diversifying away from the social network that mad... |
| Feb 4, 2010 | Zynga launches hit game FarmVille on MSN Games | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Now that Zynga‘s FarmVille game has proven to be a smash hit on Facebook, the company is launching the game on Microsoft’s MSN Games po... |
| Jan 26, 2010 | Virtual goods starting to catch on | Report shows virtual goods revenues to reach $1.6 bln in the US in 2010
You know all those little bits of money you're spending on games like FarmVille, or maybe those virtual birthday gifts your sending on Facebook? Well, those items,... |
| Jan 8, 2010 | Crunchies: Zynga’s Mark Pincus sees a future for socially-conscious virtual goods | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Although best-known for sucking in about 70 milli... |
| Jan 8, 2010 | Crunchies: Zynga’s Mark Pincus sees a future for socially-conscious virtual goods | Although best-known for sucking in about 70 million people to become online farmers and crop-growers in its Farmville game, Zynga has also started using virtual goods to raise money for different social causes. The company launched a “Sweet... |
| Dec 30, 2009 | Thinking About Etsy In The San Telmo Markets | The streets of the San Telmo neighborhood of Buenos Aires turn into a big outdoor market on sundays. Our family spent sunday afternoon there this past weekend.
As I strolled around, I could not help but think of Etsy, what it has become and... |
| Dec 28, 2009 | Tech trends for 2010 — a Netscape moment coming up | [Bernard Moon works for the Lunsford Group.]
When I made my tech trend predictions for 2009, we were in the middle of an economic meltdown. This year, I’m less focused on the recession and — thanks to my one-year old twin girls — am wading ... |
| Dec 22, 2009 | Zynga Starts Testing SMS Notifications As It Tries To Kick Its Facebook Dependence | Zynga’s massively successful moneymaking machine is about to get another way to reach its millions of avid users. Today, the company is starting to test SMS notifications, allowing a small number of users to receive updates directly to thei... |
| Nov 23, 2009 | PlayMesh brings farming to the iPhone with iFarm | PlayMesh became famous on the iPhone when it launched its iMafia game in January. Now it has scored big again with iFarm, currently the No. 1 free app on the iPhone.
In less than 24 hours, iFarm has jumped into the top 25 ranks on the iPhon... |
| Nov 23, 2009 | PlayMesh brings farming to the iPhone with iFarm | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
PlayMesh became famous on the iPhone when it launched its iMafia game in January. Now it has scored big again with iFarm, currently the... |
| Nov 23, 2009 | Zynga worth $1 billion? | Gaming company surpasses 100 million unique monthly visitors, launches destination gaming site.
Earlier this month, Electronic Arts bought social gaming site Playfish for three to four times its revenue. Bloomberg points out that ratio woul... |
| Nov 18, 2009 | Zynga To Launch Smash Hit FarmVille On FarmVille.com | Zynga is planning to bring FarmVille, the mega-hit Facebook game that currently has over 65 million monthly active users, to its own web portal at Farmville.com, according to sources familiar with the launch. The new site will use Facebook ... |
| Nov 17, 2009 | Zynga raises $15.18 million | Social gaming giant raking in more cash
Popular social gaming startup, Zynga raised $15.18 million on Tuesday, according to a regulatory filing. No new investors were listed, but the company now has raised $54 million in total. Previous inv... |
| Oct 20, 2009 | Zynga donates $487,500 to Haiti's children | Social gaming giant sharing some of its virtual profits with FATEM.org and FONKOZE.org The virtual currency floating around the world of Zynga's social game FarmVille is actually doing some social good. The company announced on Tuesday... |
| Oct 4, 2009 | Virtual Goods For Good Causes | At our Hacking Philanthropy event a few years back we talked about all kinds of new philanthropic models that were emerging online. One model that did not come up in our brainstorming sessions was the sale of virtual goods for philanthropy.... |
| Разработчик FarmVille компания Zynga собирается привлечь $1 млрд в ходе IPO | Разработчик FarmVille компания Zynga собирается привлечь $1 млрд в ходе IPO
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Один из крупнейших в мире разработчиков онлайн-игр компания Zynga подала заявку на проведение IPO. Цену акции компания не назы... |