Updated: Facebook to share ad revenue with Zynga, SEC filing reveals
[Updated: Facebook has made a statement about the filing.] Social games maker Zynga it has a revenue-sharing agreement with Facebook. The agreement, disclosed in...
Here are Zynga’s minority investors: Google, Peter Thiel, Softbank and others
Social game maker Zynga has outed its minority investors, which stand to make some serious cash off the company’s upcoming $1 billion initial public...
OnLive CEO says his pet wireless project has sub-millisecond latency
The head of streaming game service OnLive, Steve Perlman, said his new wireless data transmission technology will be so fast that the latency will...
OpenFeint recruits game developer to lead free-to-play focus
OpenFeint has hired a game development leader to help its customers focus on making free-to-play mobile games. The move reflects the growing importance of...
Zynga launches PrivacyVille tool to gamify user privacy
Zynga is launching PrivacyVille today, a game-like tutorial that rewards players with game points for learning more about the social game company’s privacy practices....
Long-awaited Civilization World launches public beta on Facebook
Sid Meier’s Civilization World is available today to all Facebook users as the social game enters its public beta test. After more than 22...
Even with half the users, Zynga’s FarmVille made more money than ever before in Q1
Game maker Zynga‘s break-out hit, FarmVille, saw record revenue in the quarter ended March 31, 2011, even while its monthly active user count dropped from...
Zynga paid $53.3M to buy Words With Friends mobile game maker Newtoy
Tucked away in Zynga‘s initial public offering filing are the amounts that the company paid to buy a bunch of game studios in the...
Zynga planning to diversify beyond Amazon, build its own data centers
One of the little-known facts about social game giant Zynga is that it’s one of the biggest operators of cloud computing infrastructure, built to support...
Zynga IPO mints a new multi-billionaire: Mark Pincus
Zynga founder Mark Pincus (pictured far left) will benefit the most from his company’s planned initial public offering, according to Zynga’s SEC filing. The...