Google Schemer is a deliciously diabolical attack against Foursquare
Oh Google, your aptly named new product Schemer doesn’t have us fooled. We know you’re calling it a new way to discover things to...
Kabam to launch The Godfather: Five Families social game exclusively on Google+
In a jab at Facebook in social games, Google and Kabam are announcing that The Godfather: Five Families will be exclusively available on the...
Zynga posts its IPO roadshow, explains why you should buy its stock (video)
Zynga has posted its pitch to investors for its upcoming initial public offering roadshow. The pitch is part of Zynga’s plan to raise $850...
Zynga confirms plans to raise up to $1.15B at $8.9B valuation and start IPO roadshow
Zynga plans to raise around $850 million to $1.15 billion at a $5.9 billion to $6.99 billion valuation in an initial public offering that...
With 10M players a day, Zynga’s CityVille is about to hit its one-year anniversary
Zynga‘s CityVille turns one tomorrow and it’s still the No. 1 game on Facebook. With more than 10 million daily active users, the game...
Zynga: Beyond the IPO
Three years ago, Mark Pincus told me that he was going to make Zynga more valuable than EA within five years. It took him...
Ogmento launches NBA augmented reality basketball game
Ogmento, a maker of mobile augmented reality games, announced its new NBA: King of the Court game today. The game was made in partnership...
The zCloud revisited: lessons from Zynga’s public-private cloud experience
Recently, we were proud to publicly unveil the private cloud computing infrastructure that we use to scale our social games — infrastructure that we...
Amazon App Store snags an Android exclusive with CrowdStar’s Top Girl mobile game
CrowdStar‘s Top Girl mobile game is one of the top-grossing titles on Apple’s iOS platform. Now it is moving over to Google’s Android platform...
Zynga IPO set for Dec. 15 at $10B valuation?
Social game maker Zynga is reportedly planning to go public on Dec. 15 at a valuation of $10 billion, according to a report by...