Zynga to set up pace for more acquisitions, spending

Source: GulfToday.ae

SAN FRANCISCO: Zynga merger chief Barry Cottle plans to step up the pace of acquisitions, spending hundreds of millions of dollars in search of a new social-gaming blockbuster at par with hits ‘FarmVille’ and ‘CityVil ...
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He’s No Zucker

Source: The Good Men Project

I’ve never thought to defend Mark Zuckerberg. Farmville made that almost impossible. But I’ll do it this once. This has nothing to do with Facebook’s horrid IPO or its lack of a plan to gin up revenue to support its bloated market capitalization. Ins ...
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Are Social Games Really Social? Games?

Source: N4G

RPS writes: Embarrassed kids are amusing. A parent or authority figure co-opts a line or two of their lingo, and they act like it’s the cataclysmic end of everything they hold dear as foretold in The Prophecy. It is, to them, a corr ...
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FarmVille: Double animal mastery on now for Memorial Day

Source: AOL Games Blog

While double mastery events in FarmVille are nothing new, these events normally revolve around just crop and tree mastery, rather than animal mastery. For the Memorial Day weekend (in the US), farmers can actually look forwar ...
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FarmVille Summer Vacation Farmventure Goals: Everything you need to know

Source: AOL Games Blog

A new nine-part goal series has launched in FarmVille, giving you plenty to work on over the long Memorial Day weekend (in the US, anyway). These "Summer Vacation Farmventure" goals will allow you to win a special, exclusive Pony, ...
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FarmVille Serve Money Tree: Everything you need to know

Source: AOL Games Blog

When the Serve farm launched in FarmVille earlier this month, we were told that there was the possibility for a Serve Money Tree to launch on our farms. This exciting update has become real this week, as you can now complete a Ser ...
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Beyond the Blame Game: Can Facebook Be Fixed?

Source: E-Commerce Times

The honeymoon is over for Facebook (Nasdaq: FB) and Mark Zuckerberg. In fact, it ended before it began. Facebook's long-awaited and much-hyped IPO is just over a week old, and the blame game is on as the company has lost 16 pe ...
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The Facebook Caliphate

Source: National Review Online

So how’s that old Arab Spring going? You remember — the “Facebook Revolution.” As I write, they’re counting the votes in Egypt’s presidential election, so by the time you read this the pecking order may have changed somewha ...
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Regulators eyeing pre-paid cards

Source: Marketplace

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau launched another attack on the forces of financial darkness this week. It announced plans to regulate pre-paid credit cards. The cards are increasingly popular, despite the fact th ...
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