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Zynga To File For IPO In June?

by Shabbir Akhtar on 25. May, 2011 in Uncategorized

After LinkedIn, now it’s Zynga’s turn to go for IPO. Actually it’s the success that LinkedIn witnessed in the IPO, which drove Zynga to believe that they could also meet the same fate. And, because of that the social gaming company is looking to cash in on the upcoming public offering.
Kara Swisher from AllThingsD reported [...]

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Zynga’s RewardVille Lets You Earn Virtual Coins Making Games More Addictive

by Shabbir Akhtar on 15. Mar, 2011 in Facebook

Zynga has rolled out RewardVille, which allows Zynga users earn zCoins, a new type of virtual currency, to purchase exclusive virtual goods. The users of existing Zynga games like CityVille, FrontierVille, FarmVille, Mafia Wars, Zynga Poker, Café World, Treasure Isle, YoVille, PetVille, and Vampire Wars will receive virtual points called zPoints along with ZCoins.

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The Angry Birds Are Soon Coming To Facebook

by Shabbir Akhtar on 05. Mar, 2011 in Facebook

Zynga demonstrated the productivity of the marriage between online gaming and social networking. After the immense success of Zynga on the Facebook platform (MafiaWars, FarmVille, CityVille), other developers are seeing Facebook as a lucrative podium and the social network is also upgrading its API to leverage them. Rovio is one of those eager developers. Their [...]

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New Reports Confirm Zynga’s $10 Bn Valuation, IPO In 2012

by Shabbir Akhtar on 21. Feb, 2011 in Facebook

Zynga, the social gaming behemoth is about to complete a $500 million round of funding, confirms two separate reports from AllThingsD and New York Times. We had previously reported that Zynga is in conversations with investors to raise $250 million from new round of funding and we also assumed that if the new round of [...]

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Zynga Valuation Expected To Reach $10 Bn After $250 Mn Funding

by Shabbir Akhtar on 15. Feb, 2011 in Uncategorized

Back in April 2010, Zynga issued stocks in the market which valued the company at $4 billion. After ten months, the valuation got more than doubled. According to a report by Wall Street Journal, the social gaming giant is talking to potential suitors to raise $250 million from new round of funding, which would value [...]

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J. P. Morgan Planning To Start Social Media Fund

by Shabbir Akhtar on 14. Feb, 2011 in Facebook, Twitter

After Goldman Sachs investment into Facebook, the frenzy in the market about the company’s shares had gone up to an insane level. The demand not only continued growing as the time passes by, but other social media companies also became hot favourites for the investors. To handle this over-excitement from the investors, J.P. Morgan is [...]

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Facebook And Other Social Companies Leading To The Next Tech Bubble?

by Shabbir Akhtar on 24. Jan, 2011 in Facebook, Twitter

The 2000 dotcom bubble burst hasn’t become too old. In fact, the specter of the burst seems to solidify from the shadowy stage. A report from NPR points to the incredible growth of Facebook and other social networking sites like Groupon, Zynga, Twitter, LinkedIn and LivingSocial might result in yet another bubble burst. This time [...]

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Let’s play! ….Socially

by milind on 06. Apr, 2010 in social media marketing

Social networks are all about the connectivity, the fact that you can reach out and stay in touch with friends, relatives and those who share similar interests. But such an activity takes not more than a few minutes now does it. The numbers tell a different story, take Facebook for instance, on average a user [...]

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