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• in Social Media
  Zynga Lays off 18% of Staff
  Zynga announce huge job cuts as they resize their business
  by cmimanagers / on Jun 4, 2013
• in Business
  Facebook's Q3 Results on the Up
  Facebook is bullish regarding mobile revenue in their Q3 earnings report
  by cmimanagers / on Oct 23, 2012
• in Business
  Is Zynga in Terminal Decline?
  Farmville maker Zynga report poor Q2 results and slash yearly revenue forecasts.
  by cmimanagers / on Jul 25, 2012

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “social gaming”

 

• Gaming and Facebook: Social Gaming Heaven

  
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  Facebook may not be the place for fancy games with top-of-the-line graphics, but it is nevertheless revolutionizing the social gaming world. Where else can you battle head-to-head with your octogenarian 80-year-old aunt and your former college roommate? Sure, there’s always been X-box Live and MMORPG’s , but ...
  5 days ago

• Social Gaming: A Critical and Commercial Failure

  
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  Social Gaming created a lot of buzz but is becoming a failure with Zynga leading the pack. Author information Manish Khatri blogger at Techie Plaza Manish Khatri is an acclaimed Freelance writer and a blogger. He writes about various subjects covering Social media, tech reviews, long distance ...
  5 days ago

• Social Gaming Network (SGN) Acquires Mob Science

  
  Pulse2 - Technology News And Reviews — Authority: 440
  Social Gaming Network ( SGN ) is a cross-platform social gaming company that has  acquired   Mob Science .  Mob Science is a mobile gamine company that has built a few popular games.  Based in Los Angeles, SGN announced the deal to buy Mob Science today, but the terms of the deal was undisclosed. “Mob Science ...
  5 days ago

• Facebook adds clickable hashtag support to your News Feed

  
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  Facebook wants to help you make your conversations just a little more discoverable (if you so desire), and it’s decided to finally include a long-missing feature — clickable hashtags — to the News Feed. If you’ve ever enjoyed hashtag searches on Twitter, Instagram or other social networks (some of our friends ...
  1 week ago

• Point & counterpoint on young video gamers: 2 studies

  
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  What an interesting point and counterpoint about videogames have been turned up by two just-released studies, one from Northwestern University in the US and one by University of Victoria in Canada: On the one hand: “Parents assess video games more negatively than television, computers, and mobile devices. More ...
  1 week ago

• gumi CEO Hironao Kunimitsu on social games, collaborations and Asia

  
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  Social gaming isn’t social spamming. gumi CEO Hironao Kunimitsu shares with e27 the three factors in building a successful social game. Established in June 2007, gumi has sure come a long way. In 2011, the Japanese mobile social gaming provider secured funding of US$26 million  in a Series F fund from Jafco, ...
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• What the game industry needs is a healthy dose of skepticism

  
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  To say Zynga is in transition is an understatement, laying off 18% . As part of the layoffs they seem to be betting on smaller teams. Zynga is also trying to follow the lead of mobile gaming companies like  Supercell  and  King.com . Apparently executives were impressed to see massive hits created by small teams ...
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• More Layoffs and Reduced Outlook: Is Zynga Sinking?

  
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  On Monday, Zynga ( NASDAQ:ZNGA ) announced two substantial pieces of news that the markets are still digesting. It’s no secret that the game publisher has struggled since its IPO — shares are down more than 68 percent since they hit the market in December 2011 — but the company hasn’t been totally neglected ...
  2 weeks ago

• Zynga to Shutter Offices in New York, Dallas, LA—Game Over for OMGPOP

  
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  João-Pierre S. Ruth The crops seem to be withering in the land of “FarmVille.” When social game company Zynga (Nasdaq: ZNGA ) announced on Monday plans to cut 520 employees , about 18 percent of its overall staff, its New York, Los Angeles, and Dallas offices reportedly landed on the chopping block . Zynga ...
  2 weeks ago

• Social Gaming Platform, Zynga, Lays Off 18 Percent Of Its Staff

  
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  Zynga is quickly cutting staff and closing offices in order to revamp efforts to focus on mobile games. The social gaming company, which is based in San Francisco, is laying off 520 employees or about 18 percent of its workforce, according to recent reports. It also said it is closing multiple offices. In a recent ...
  2 weeks ago

• Game of Phones: Ruling Brand Engagement in Social and Mobile Games

  
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  ADOTAS — In a programmatic world plagued with banner blindness, annoyance, click fraud and viewability issues, in-game advertising is emerging to be the exception to legacy digital ad formats. Not since television have brand messages been as engaging, impactful and visual to consumers. More importantly, as in-game ...
  2 weeks ago

• Zynga Lays off 18% of Staff

  
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  You kinda get the impression that the Zynga bubble may have burst.  Theyve had a pretty tough year of it, with falling revenues and difficulties across the board.  These troubles manifested themselves this week with the news that they will be laying off 520 employees, or 18% of their workforce. The move comes as ...
  2 weeks ago

• Zynga’s decline continues with 520 more layoffs

  
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  Zynga was the giant of social games a couple of years ago, but as that business tilts more towards smartphones and tablets, the company is struggling.
  2 weeks ago

• Webinar – Mobile billing for m-gaming

  
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  June 12, 2013 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm Organisers: txtNation Webcast: 3pm (GMT+1) Cost: Free txtNation will be providing a detailed overview of new acquisition and payment strategies for gambling and social gaming. The webinar will cover the following key points: - Direct operator billing and Premium SMS ...
  2 weeks ago

• Draw Team Brings Together Social Gaming On The iPad And Apple TV

  
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  New to the App Store, Draw Team does a great job of showing how the iPad and Apple TV can be used in tandem to create a very nice gaming platform. As the name suggests, the app is a social party drawing game. Up to nine people can play at one time. But if you’ve got a really big group, you can give the team mode ...
  2 weeks ago

• 7 Marketing Tactics from Zynga That Really Work

  
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  After only four years in existence, Zynga is already earning over a billion dollars a year in revenue . No gaming company has grown so big in so little time before. Part of the reason for this growth was an incredible change in the way games are consumed. Games like Farmville have moved beyond being only for young ...
  2 weeks ago

• Critter Camp: New Multiplayer Game on Windows Phone

  
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  Critter Camp (from the makers of WordHog, 2nd place finisher at Microsoft ImagineCup Nationals 2012) is a collection of real-time multiplayer mini-games. Critter Camp can best be compared to Mario Party for mobile, on a global scale. Unlike slower turn-based games, Critter Camp provides a action-packed, competitive ...
  2 weeks ago

• Dish Social app brings Twitter, Facebook to Hopper DVRs

  
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  Dish is a little late to the social television party, but it has finally arrived with the aptly (if not creatively) named Social app. The app, available on Hopper DVRs, shows personal Facebook, Twitter or Now Watching feeds — which displays tweets relevant to the show and channel being viewed — in a right rail ...
  2 weeks ago

• Why I Love Twitter And Barely Tolerate Yahoo?

  
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  I used to be a die-hard Yahoo fan in the 90s, but now I love Twitter and can barely tolerate Yahoo . What happened to my purple love? This week Yahoo tried to impress and seduce me one more time. The company purchased Tumblr for $1.1 billion , rolled out a major update to Flickr and reportedly ...
  2 weeks ago

• Casino Gaming, Game Developers & DCKAP

  
  Offshore Web Development and Programming Blog — Authority: 97
  We have been in the fore-front of Game Development and Casino Gaming and it has been a great ride the last few years. We partnered with Buffalo Studios and helped them with their Bingo-Blitz Game, worked on scaling the game infrastructure and worked on 24X7 monitoring of the game. Our Game Programmers had a ...
  3 weeks ago

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