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• God of Mafia Wars strategy guide launches

  
  Daily Connect — Authority: 437
  Mafia Wars, an online role playing game developed by Zynga, has grown to serve over 200 million monthly active users. Follow the technology world at Daily Connect.
  7 hours ago

• Zynga Bought By Digital Sky Technologies

  
  DailyGamesNews.com — Authority: 455
  Zynga is a videogame developer based in San Francisco which has released so far three online games (FarmVille, Cafe World and Mafia Wars), all of them extremely popular in Facebook. Digital Sky Technologies (which previously splashed $200 million investing in Facebook) has invested $180 million in Zynga, a rapidly ...
  8 hours ago

• Zynga CEO Mark Pincus on NBC Bay Area Press:Here

  
  Games Galore — Authority: 123
  Zynga CEO Mark Pincus on NBC Bay Area Press:Here .
  13 hours ago

• Zynga Lands $180 Million Investment for Social Games

  
  Digital Media Wire - connecting people & knowledge — Authority: 576
  San Francisco - Zynga, apublisher of social games including "Mafia Wars" and"FarmVille," announced on Wednesday that it has received aninvestment of $180 million, led by Russias Digital Sky Technologies. Foundedin 2007, San Francisco-based Zynga counts over 230 million monthly active usersfor its games, which reside ...
  20 hours ago

• Zynga raises $180 million in investments

  
  GamingAngels — Authority: 535
  I’m sure many of you either play or know of FarmVille, Mafia Wars or any of the other big games that developer Zynga has launched on Facebook. Well on the heels of speculation that FarmVille is more popular than Twitter , it has been revealed that the Russian investors Digital Sky Technologies, who gave Facebook ...
  21 hours ago

• Alisher Usmanov: The Scary Russian Oligarch Seducing Silicon Valley

  
  Gawker: valleywag — Authority: 641
  Alisher Usmanov is nicknamed " the hard man of Russia ," but hes good at seducing the softies in Californias tech community: An investment firm he backs lead a $180 million investment in Zynga, the gaming company that trafficked in scammy ads. The investment firm, Russias Digital Sky Technologies, led a broader ...
  22 hours ago

• Alisher Usmanov: The Scary Russian Oligarch Seducing Silicon Valley [Crime]

  
  Gawker — Authority: 864
  Alisher Usmanov is nicknamed " the hard man of Russia ," but hes good at seducing the softies in Californias tech community: An investment firm he backs lead a $180 million investment in Zynga, the gaming company that trafficked in scammy ads. The investment firm, Russias Digital Sky Technologies, led a broader ...
  22 hours ago

• Zynga Raises An Additional $180 Million

  
  All Facebook — Authority: 664
  Zynga is really ramping up funding for the company with a new investment of $180 million from Digital Sky Technologies (DST), the same company which has purchased $300 million worth of Facebook stock, earlier this year. Included in this funding round will be a portion of the money which will be allocated to allow ...
  1 day ago

• Russians Buy Stake in Web Games

  
  DealBook — Authority: 767
  Digital Sky Technologies, an investment firm with offices in Moscow and London, is leading a group that is buying a $180 million stake in Zynga, a fast-growing online game maker.
  1 day ago

• New Farmville.com Exclusive Winter Gifts Released

  
  Unigamesity — Authority: 144
  Zynga has released a bunch of new gifts we can send to our friends in Farmville, but now most of them are Farmville.com exclusive gifts. What are the new gifts? Read on to find out and see all of them, as well as learn how to send the Farmville.com exclusive gifts to your friends.Here is [...]
  1 day ago

• Digital Sky Technologies Invests $180 Million In Zynga

  
  Pulse2 - Technology News And Reviews — Authority: 516
  Digital Sky Technologies (DST) is big player when it comes to investing in social networks and virtual good companies. DST invested about $200 million in Facebook and bought equity from the social network’s shareholders in the last couple months. The Russian investment company has also invested in Facebook ...
  1 day ago

• Zynga Raised US$ 180M

  
  Wir sprechen Online. — Authority: 136
  Zynga , maker of FarmVille , Mafia Wars , raised US$ 180M from Russian venture capitalist DST ; http://j.mp/8V7J7T
  1 day ago

• Will Zynga Use $180 MM Funding For Shopping

  
  GigaOM — Authority: 779
  Good times are certainly back in Silicon Valley, thanks to late stage investors who are willing to bet big on fast growing Internet startups. Earlier today, Zynga, a San Francisco-based social games company raised a whopping $180 million in fresh funding from Digital Sky Technologies (D.S.T), a Russian investment ...
  1 day ago

• Zynga Takes $180 Million Venture Round From DST, Others (Cue Russian Mafia Jokes)

  
  TechCrunch — Authority: 873
  Zynga , one of the stars of the Scamville drama, has raised a big round of funding – $180 million. Digital Sky Technologies , Tiger Global, Institutional Venture Partners and Andreessen Horowitz all participated in the round. The company has now raised $219 million in total. DST, which has invested $300 ...
  1 day ago

• HUGE: FarmVille Maker Zynga Raises an Astounding $180 Million

  
  PC Mike - Tech News and Reviews — Authority: 461
  Okay, so we knew that the social gaming space was big – just look at the blockbuster $300-$400 million acquisition of Playfish for the proof. We also knew that FarmVille creator Zynga was huge – they are likely bigger than Twitter and were valued at $1 billion last month. More: HUGE: FarmVille Maker Zynga ...
  1 day ago

• HUGE: FarmVille Maker Zynga Raises an Astounding $180 Million

  
  Mashable! — Authority: 856
  Okay, so we knew that the social gaming space was big – just look at the blockbuster $300-$400 million acquisition of Playfish for the proof. We also knew that FarmVille creator Zynga was huge – they are likely bigger than Twitter and were valued at $1 billion last month. Well, it’s time to throw all of ...
  1 day ago

• Russians Buy Stake in Web Games

  
  NewsHunter.org — Authority: 164
  Digital Sky Technologies, the Russian firm that invested more than $200 million in Facebook, is leading a group that is buying a $180 million stake in Zygna, a creator of online games.
  1 day ago

• Russians Buy Stake in Web Games

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 902
  Mafia Wars from Zynga is extremely popular on Facebook.
  1 day ago

• DST Drops $180 Million On Zynga, Makers Of FarmVille

  
  The Next Web — Authority: 746
  It turns out you can get rich playing games, or at least building them. Zynga has just taken a stunning $180 million dollars from DST, the same company that invested $200 million in Facebook. DST is putting quite  a large pool of chips into the Facebook ecosystem. Look at it this way: they have nearly $400 million ...
  1 day ago

• Tech IPOs filed so far have shades of dot-com bubble

  
  Blog of Intellectual Capital — Authority: 122
  Here is some IPO news from Marketwatch . After recent optimistic comments about an upcoming rebound in technology initial public offerings by several Silicon Valley venture capitalists and investment bankers, I decided to see if the reality lived up to the hype — and hope — and trolled through several regulatory ...
  2 days ago

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