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PopCap doubles down on Facebook games with grand opening of Lucky Gem Casino
This could get pretty interesting. PopCap Games this week launched a new series of casino-style games on Facebook in which players compete in slot-based games, playing by themselves or with friends using virtual currency.  Social Gaming5/23/2012
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MGM Resorts Plans To Launch A Social Gaming Website
(Las Vegas) -- Casino veteran MGM Resorts International (NYSE:MGM) is working on launching a social gaming website in order to grab share of the growing social gaming...
5/22/2012
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American Express launches FarmVille rewards card
(California) -- American Express has created a card that rewards FarmVille users with virtual cash for their real-world purchases.
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Social gambling to be worth $100bn by 2017
(USA) -- There’s a very fine line between social gaming and social gambling. Think about it. All you have to do is add a wager and one becomes the other.
5/20/2012
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Facebook at risk from US gaming laws as authorities up scrutiny of 'social' gambling' that uses virtual money
(UK) -- Facebook successfully made its stock market debut on Friday, but analysts warn that its crucial revenues could be at risk because of growing scrutiny by American...
5/19/2012
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Facebook's Rise Opens New Door for Online Poker
(USA) -- As Facebook Inc cashes in on its Initial Public Offering, other web-based companies such as Zynga Inc. have hitched a ride onto the rise of the social media...
5/17/2012
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Culture Clashes May Hinder Social Gaming Gold Rush, Plumbee CEO Says
(USA) -- Online gambling companies may find there is a culture clash with social gaming that hinders their entry into the booming field, according to the chief executive...
5/16/2012
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DoubleDown goes all in: adds Texas Hold ‘Em to Facebook
(California) -- Full-on social online gambling might not becoming a part of our everyday lives especially soon, but that hasn’t stopped casino games from becoming...
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Social gaming to gambling: states inch forward
(USA) -- When will the floodgates open? It feels like an eternity that the casino industry and makers of games like Zynga Poker have been waiting for states to flip a...
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For Start-Up, Virtual Casinos
(California) -- Andrew Pascal was one of Steve Wynn's trusted lieutenants when the Las Vegas magnate was rebuilding his gambling empire a decade ago. Now the former...
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Bwin.Party Plans ‘Fairly Small’, Not Aggressive, Social Gaming Acquisition
(UK) -- Bwin.Party Digital Entertainment plans a "fairly small" acquisition of a social gaming company and will reveal its strategy in the burgeoning field...
5/13/2012
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Stakes are high as apps turn kids into gamblers
(Australia) -- CHILDREN are using smartphones as gambling machines as they get increasingly bombarded with opportunities to gamble through phone apps and social media...
5/10/2012
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MGM Set on Social Gaming and Macau’s Gambling Industry Boom
(Macau) -- When MGM announced last year that it was going to take on social gaming to bring a new customer base to its casinos it was certainly it preparation of the...
5/9/2012
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Japan's social media heavyweights scrap gambling games
(Japan) -- Japan's leading social gaming companies Gree Inc and DeNA Co Ltd said on Wednesday they would gradually phase out games that contain aspects of gambling...
5/8/2012
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Japan poised to limit gambling-style collecting in social games
(Japan) -- Many in and around the video game industry have long been concerned with the way many social games seem designed to encourage compulsive spending on digital...
5/3/2012
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Mirrorball Slots brings fairy-tale gambling to Facebook
(UK) -- British studio Plumbee broke out of stealth mode back in March with $2.8 million in funding and the announcement of its first Facebook game: Mirrorball Slots.
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Social games and gambling: what a long strange trip it'll be
(California) -- Gambling is coming to a social game near you. This was the unanimous opinion of everyone who attended GIGse, the Global Gaming Expo, in San Francisco...
4/30/2012
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Regulatory Hammer May Fall On Social Gaming, Panel Warns [sub req'd]
(California) -- Regulators are likely eventually to put social casino games under the microscope to assess whether they are violating state gambling laws, according to...
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What social games can learn from real money gaming
(California) -- Last week’s Global iGaming Summit and Expo in San Francisco raised a lot of questions about the future convergence between social games and real...
4/27/2012
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BLOG: Collision of social games and gambling now 'inevitable'
(California) -- Whoa. Just a couple months ago, Zynga was cautiously musing that social games and gambling could join forces to make more money. Now Dean Takahashi is...
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Casino games surpass farm games as the darlings of social networks
(California) -- FarmVille took Facebook by storm in 2009 and gave rise to a sea of rival farm simulations. But those games have begun to decline, and they are giving way...
4/25/2012
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50 Cent Blackjack Comes to Facebook
(California) -- The famous rapper wants his own blackjack game. But, can you win at least a penny there? The Game Show Network, a venture of Direct TV and Sony Pictures...
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50 Cent to launch gambling game
(California) -- Rapper 50 Cent is set to launch a gambling game on Facebook. The singer has teamed up with bosses of Game Show Network Digital to create an interactive...
4/24/2012
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GiGse to highlight importance of social media
(California) -- GiGse, which opens today, has announced the list of start-ups selected for the Startup Launchpad. Held in San Francisco, US, April 24-26, the i-gaming...
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Kontagent CEO to Speak at GiGse on Strategies for Monetizing Social Casino Players on Facebook
(California) -- Kontagent, the leading user analytics company for social and mobile app developers, today announced that CEO, Jeff Tseng, will be speaking at GiGse, the...
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Real online gambling and social network casino games are on a collision course
(California) -- One of the biggest stories in tech and gaming this year is the coming collision of real online gambling and social networking casino games.
4/23/2012
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Get rich or die trying with 50 Cent’s Blackjack
(USA) -- 50 Cent’s Blackjack is a new Facebook title, developed by Disruptor Beam and published by GSN. It’s something of a departure from the developer...
4/22/2012
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STUTZ: Slot makers preparing for Internet gaming
(Las Vegas) -- International Game Technology is poised to premiere "American Idol" on Facebook, and wants players to one day wager on the interactive version...
4/20/2012
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Facebook drives growth of social gaming developers
(UK) -- London Riccardo Zacconi will always remember Christmas Eve 2003 — it was when his company almost went bust.
4/19/2012
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50 Cent Teams with Game Show Network for New Blackjack Game
(USA) -- 50 Cent has teamed with the Game Show Network’s interactive division to launch a Blackjack game on Facebook. “50 Cent’s Blackjack” is a...
4/18/2012
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ANALYSIS: Gamblification! The hottest trend in social games
(USA) -- Gamblification! This is not yet a household word but we use it to describe the intersection of social media and gambling. It is a play on the concepts of...
4/17/2012
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Gambling Giants Join Social Gaming Gold Rush [sub req'd]
(Las Vegas) -- MGM, Caesars, Zynga and Bwin.Party are among the companies jostling for position ahead of the anticipated convergence between the traditional gambling...
4/14/2012
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Boyd mining social media, games
(Las Vegas) -- Boyd Gaming is enticing Farmville fans to abandon their virtual crops in favor of real-life prizes. The Las Vegas-based gaming company, which owns 17...
4/7/2012
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Casino Game Makers Outline a Winning Strategy on Facebook
(Nevada) -- Remember, the house always wins. Increasingly, that phrase can be applied not only to Las Vegas casinos, but also to Facebook, which takes a 30 percent cut...
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Slot maker IGT seeks stake in future of online gaming via Facebook
(Nevada) -- Las Vegas casinos might not be the only ones betting on the legalization of online gaming, according to an article on The Wall Street Journal’s All...
3/30/2012
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Social Game Makers Place Their Bets
(California) -- What happens in CityVille stays in CityVille—or so social game maker Zynga (ZNGA) hopes. The San Francisco company and its rivals have long used...
3/26/2012
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When Social Gaming and Gambling Meet
(USA) -- The core principle behind “social gambling” isn’t exactly all that hard to comprehend, given that the “social gambling” concept is...
3/25/2012
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What happens when professional gambling meets social gaming
(USA) -- 53% of Facebook users play social games. Since Facebook’s IPO filing earlier this year, we know that game-maker Zynga accounts for a full 12% of the...
3/24/2012
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Game Developers Conference Reveals Social Casino Gaming Trend
(USA) -- The social gaming scene that includes gambling on various slots and card games has been awash in developers and new products fresh off the virtual presses.
3/9/2012
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Four Ways Social Gaming Has Changed
(USA) -- The evolution of social gaming has begun. But are the changes what we expected? Ingo Hinterding, the Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of Crowdpark, recently...
3/3/2012
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Zynga Launches Separate Platform, Eyes Real Money Online Gaming
(USA) -- On Thursday, online gaming giant Zynga announced that it is launching a new proprietary platform at Zynga.com where users can find their favorite games without...
2/28/2012
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Crowdpark launches two new games with a gambling twist Facebook
(USA) -- I bet you a soda you don’t read this entire post from start to finish, and with the new AnteUp game from Crowdpark I could make that bet a reality. The...
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Crowdpark's Pet Vegas joins the casino games bandwagon on Facebook
(USA) -- Will 2012 be the year that Facebook turns into a digital Atlantic City? (Depending on how you look at it, that's both a great and a terrible thing.) Berlin...
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Virtual world creator nabs cash, plans to roll dice on a virtual Vegas and more
(USA) -- Seattle gaming veteran Derrick Morton has been operating his startup company, FlowPlay, at break even or profitable for the past two years as revenues grew by a...
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PopCap Bets on Its Casino Game for Facebook
(USA) -- The video game company behind Bejeweled and Bookworm is releasing its first casino-style game, Lucky Gem Casino, to Facebook. PopCap, a subsidiary of Electronic...
2/24/2012
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Deal Reality in Virtual Vegas
(Wall Street) -- The social-gaming explosion keeps spurring deals in Vegas. Slot-machine giant Bally Technologies this past week bought assets from Chiligaming. This...
2/22/2012
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PopCap doubles down on Facebook games with grand opening of Lucky Gem Casino
(California) -- This could get pretty interesting. PopCap Games this week launched a new series of casino-style games on Facebook in which players compete in slot-based...
2/7/2012
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MGM Could See Stock Upside From Social Games
(Wall Street) -- Last year, MGM Resorts International announced plans to enter the social gaming market in the hopes of getting more customers to its casinos. According...
2/1/2012
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$US5b Facebook IPO Won’t Make You Rich
(Wall Street) -- It’s widely reported that Facebook is going to file for an IPO today, and likely that the offering will be in the $US5 billion range. Time to...
1/31/2012
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Report: Facebook IPO Will Be *Only* $5 Billion
(USA) -- Facebook will file for its much-hyped initial public offering on Wednesday with dramatically less money up-front than initially reported; $5 billion instead of...
1/28/2012
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Facebook IPO anticipated next week
(Wall Street) -- The world may soon get a peek at all the nitty gritty financials of Facebook -- perhaps even by Friday. Facebook may be filing for IPO as soon as...
1/27/2012
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Morgan Stanley Close to Winning Facebook Deal
(Wall Street) -- Facebook is close to picking Morgan Stanley as the lead underwriter for its initial public offering, said people familiar with the matter.
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Report: Facebook Could File For IPO February 1, 2012
(Wall Street) -- Investors will probably “like” this one: Facebook is preparing to file papers imminently with the Securities and Exchange Commission for its...
1/23/2012
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BLOG: "When Online Gambling Is Legalized, Facebook Will Be A $100 Billion Company"
(Wall Street) -- At a party this evening in Munich, an industry insider close to Facebook made the following prediction: "When online gambling is legalized,...
1/18/2012
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Analyst: Zynga’s internet gambling chances a long shot
(Washington) -- Has the big red dog of social gaming peaked? Arvind Bhatia, interactive entertainment analyst with Sterne Agee, said Zynga will need to convert an...
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Online Gambling Would Be Big Score For Zynga
(Wall Street) -- Zynga continues to dominate the social gaming space and has made significant inroads in mobile gaming, but its stock performance has failed to impress...
1/16/2012
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Zynga Chief Talks IPO, Lessons Learned
(Wall Street) -- Zynga Inc. Chief Executive Mark Pincus ended 2011 as the face of an overhyped Web initial public offering. Now he wants to show the hype was justified.
1/15/2012
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IGT goes to Seattle and buys Double DEown for $500 million
(Washington) -- Not all that long ago when slot machines were still know as 'one-armed bandits' they were limited on the graphics and games they could offer. Now...
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Zynga Not Interested in Real Money Gambling
(USA) -- Due to the relaxation of online gambling laws in the U.S. it is expected that many of the social gaming networks would get in on the action. However, apparently...
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Zynga Stalling on Real Money Online Poker
(USA) -- The largest growing social media network Facebook has a lot to offer the cyber world, whether its just keeping up with latest news from your friends or playing...
1/14/2012
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Benefits touted to IGT acquisition of Double Down Interactive
(Las Vegas) -- Analysts said Friday that the $500 million acquisition of an online social gaming company by International Game Technology has two benefits.
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IGT Online Gambling Agrees to Aquire DoubleDown Interactive
(Las Vegas) -- Considered the biggest virtual casino the DoubleDown™ Casino which has only been active since 2010, boasts 4.7 million users per month. The virtual...
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Zynga May have Just Lost Out on a Billion Dollar Opportunity
(USA) -- It looks like the mac daddy of slot machine companies may be stealing one from Zynga. That’s right gang, International Game Technology (NYSE ticker symbol...
1/13/2012
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With Double Down, IGT making $500M bet on social gaming
(Wall Street) -- International Game Technology is steeped in the world of gambling and gaming. The Reno-based company sells slot machines to MGM, Caesars and other...
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The Glaringly Obvious Sign That Zynga's Investors Want It In On Gambling
(Wall Street) -- Zynga's shares shot up 5 percent today after a slot machine company bought a Facebook poker game developer for $500 million. That's despite no...
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Zynga Dealt a Strong Hand
(Wall Street) -- Gambling industry giants are raising the stakes at virtual casino tables. For Zynga investors, that's good news.
1/12/2012
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Double Down scores buyer
(Washington) -- Seattle online gaming company Double Down Interactive hit the jackpot. It's being acquired by Nevada gambling giant IGT for $250 million in cash,...
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IGT buying online social gaming company for $500 million
(Washington) -- International Game Technology has reached agreement to acquire Double Down Interactive, an online social gaming company for $500 million, the Las Vegas-...
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IGT Spins Wheel Of Fortune On Social Gaming [sub req]
(Wall Street) -- Slot machine giant International Game Technology (IGT) has said it will pay up to $500m in cash for Double Down Interactive, a Seattle-based social...
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IGT To Buy Developer Double Down For Up To $500M
(Washington) -- Slot-machine maker International Game Technology (IGT) confirmed plans to acquire social-media developer Double Down Interactive LLC for up to $500...
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Intl Game Tech to buy developer Double Down
(Washington) -- Slot-machine maker International Game Technology IGT +0.39% confirmed plans to acquire social-media developer Double Down Interactive LLC for up to $500...
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Real gambling on Facebook? Double Down CEO says IGT deal could help make it a reality
(Washington) -- Gambling technology company IGT’s acquisition of Double Down Interactive for as much as $500 million is big news for the Seattle startup scene, but...
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Royal flush for Seattle's Double Down, sold for $250 mil +
(Washington) -- Seattle online gaming company Double Down Interactive hit the jackpot. It's being acquired by Nevada-based gambling giant IGT for $250 million in...
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Slot machine maker IGT purchases online gaming company
(Washington) -- Nevada-based slot machine maker International Game Technology has reached an agreement to purchase Double Down Interactive, gaining the infrastructure to...
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Video Poker Giant Bets $500 Million on Facebook Game Maker Double Down
(Washington) -- Seattle-based Double Down Interactive (DDI) has been acquired by video poker giant International Game Technology for $500 million.
1/7/2012
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Senator Nick Xenophon in bid to ban Facebook gambling
(Australia) -- CRUSADING Senator Nick Xenophon has approached Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg to demand real-money gambling be banned from the social networking site.
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Senator Nick Xenophon targets Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg over gambling
(Australia) -- ANTI-GAMBLING senator Nick Xenophon is targeting Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg over plans by the billionaire to introduce real-money gambling on his...
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Will Facebook Become a Key Player in U.S. Online Gaming?
(USA) -- Arguably the most popular social media platform in the world, Facebook appears poised to expand its ever-growing empire into the online gaming industry.
1/2/2012
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The creator of Zynga Poker ain't down with online gambling yet
(California) -- Now that the lot of social and casual games makers are bound to hop on the imminent online gambling bandwagon in the U.S., it was safe to assume that...
12/30/2011
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Ceasar’s Now Completely Owns Playtika
(Wall Street) -- Israeli social game developer Playtika is now completely owned by U.S. casino giant Caesars Entertainment Corporation, according to a report from Globes...
12/27/2011
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Zynga's Dud Caps Rocky Year For U.S. IPOs
(Wall Street) -- It has been a tale of two halves in the IPO market in 2011, with an upbeat start giving way to a dour finish as the eurozone debt crisis flared and...
12/25/2011
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Zynga's IPO flop could hurt some Silicon Valley startups
(California) -- Zynga's unexpected IPO flop this month could be bad news for other Silicon Valley startups. With buzzed-about social media companies having failed so...
12/23/2011
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CEO calls Zynga his 'crowning achievement'
(USA) -- Before Zynga traded its first share on Friday, nervous investors in the social-gaming company didn't know whether to expect a killing or to be killed. Everyone...
12/22/2011
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Zynga chief’s $1 billion-plus payday
(Wall Street) -- One-Percenter of the Week: Mark Pincus made more than $1 billion last week when shares hit the market at $10 each. Plus, even before the IPO, he got to...
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Caesars seeks more Israeli acquisitions
(Israel) -- One can argue about the IPO of Zynga Inc. (Nasdaq: ZNGA), the giant Internet gaming company, but one cannot question the company's success and that it...
12/19/2011
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Zynga stock keeps falling
(Wall Street) -- Zynga's poor debut on the stock market continued early in its second day of trading Monday, with the company losing another 5 percent off its...
12/18/2011
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CEO calls Zynga his 'crowning achievement'
(California) -- Before Zynga traded its first share on Friday, nervous investors in the social-gaming company didn't know whether to expect a killing or to be killed.
12/17/2011
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Online gaming sees massive growth: infographic
(Wall Street) -- In these times of recession, online gaming is a boom industry, as witnessed by Zynga’s IPO today. The deal values Zynga, the maker of FarmVille...
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Zynga falters in debut, sheds doubt on IPO market
(New York) -- Online games developer Zynga Inc scored badly as it went public on Friday, dashing hopes for the year's hottest tech IPO, as investors frowned on its...
12/16/2011
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For Zynga CEO, Cash Came Early
(Wall Street) -- For many technology entrepreneurs, an initial public offering is a chance to make their paper millions real. Zynga Inc. chief Mark Pincus is part of a...
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Wall Street isn’t jumping into Zynga’s stock game
(Wall Street) -- Zynga employees were cheering the company’s newly minted public stock this morning, but in early trading, Wall Street investors were not...
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Zynga rakes in $1 billion in IPO, then sees stock fall in market debut
(Wall Street) -- In the most disappointing stock market debut for a tech company in 2011, shares of San Francisco online gaming company Zynga fell almost from the get-go...
12/15/2011
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Zynga chief ahead of the online game
(Wall Street) -- WHEN ZYNGA reached an impasse while negotiating a five-year partnership with Facebook in August 2010, the online social game developer’s chief...
12/11/2011
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Pincus makes power play with Zynga IPO
(USA) -- For years, a group of about 20 guys would gather in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park or the neighboring Presidio Park for weekend games of soccer.
12/8/2011
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Facebook to Launch Online Casino Games?
(USA) -- You know the online casino industry is booming when the biggest players in the internet world show interest. And there is no bigger player on the world wide web...
12/6/2011
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Zynga to offer IPO shares
(New York) -- Hoping to harvest some fresh cash, the online game company behind "FarmVille" said Friday that it plans to raise $1 billion in an initial public...
12/3/2011
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Facebook Gambling Plans Raise Concerns
(USA) -- As Facebook considers the possibility of entering the real money gambling market concerns have been raised by a variety of parties. As the social network has...
12/2/2011
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Fear over plan for Facebook 'casinos' that could lure children into online gambling
(UK) -- Facebook is being accused of luring children into gambling through plans to introduce real cash games. The world’s biggest social network site wants to use...
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Zynga seeks lower IPO value in tough market
(Wall Street) -- Zynga Inc is seeking a more modest valuation than Wall Street expected for its initial public offering, hoping to attract investors after a series of...
11/30/2011
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Facebook considers supporting online gambling in the UK (rumor)
(UK) -- Summary: Facebook is considering opening up the Facebook Platform to online gambling in the UK, according to a new rumor. This is to supposedly be an exchange of...
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Facebook gamblers are on their own
(Australia) -- A loophole in federal gambling legislation is allowing an online casino to take money from Facebook punters but not pay out winnings in cash, leaving...
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UK Facebook users could soon gamble their earnings away (for real)
(UK) -- Online gamblingAs in, gamble their real cash away with the chance of actually winning money in return. According to eGaming Review (eGR) [paywall link], Facebook...
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Investors anticipate Zynga to be worth $7 billion to $9 billion
(Wall Street) -- Zynga Inc., whose initial public offering has been widely anticipated by investors, is expected to hit the road Monday to begin selling its story to...
11/29/2011
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Zynga to kick off IPO roadshow next week: sources
(Wall Street) -- Zynga Inc embarks on a road show to promote its initial public offering next Monday, two sources familiar with the matter said, the latest dotcom name...
11/28/2011
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Zynga’s Tough Culture Risks a Talent Drain
(California) -- Zynga’s chief executive, Mark Pincus, got an earful from employees last month. In dozens of e-mails to a companywide list, frustrated workers...
11/25/2011
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Social gaming pioneer Zynga poised to go public in closely watched IPO
(Wall Street) -- Sometime in the next few weeks, Zynga -- the San Francisco maker of addictive online games including "FarmVille" and "Mafia Wars...
11/23/2011
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Zynga Poker Not Planning to Enter Real Money Poker Market
(California) -- Zynga PokerZynga Poker, Facebook’s free poker game that has attracted a whopping 30 million active monthly players worldwide and recently sent a...
11/13/2011
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Online Poker- Zynga Is Coming on Strong
(USA) -- Reading about Zynga and it new antics on the internet what with the rumours that are presented as positioning in the public domain you have to wonder how is...
11/12/2011
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Social betting is gaining momentum
(USA) -- Over recent months companies have been discovering that people are just as eager to spend money gambling on Facebook games for virtual cash as they are in real...
11/10/2011
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Facebook To Advertize Authorized Online Casinos
(USA) -- The need for advertizing in the web world includes print, signs, and television just to name a few so connecting to millions of people can have advantages. The...
11/9/2011
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Zynga Positioning For the American Online Poker Market
(California) -- The market for online poker worldwide is astronomical and one poker room that beats out all the rest in the Zynga Poker Room. More than 35 million people...
11/7/2011
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Social casino gaming company Yazino on the differences between web/Facebook and mobile
(UK) -- Starting out as a small UK-based web gaming company in 2009, Yazino has grown into a 50-person start-up supporting games across iOS, Facebook, and its own Yazino...
11/4/2011
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Zynga's Expenses, Revenue Jump
(Wall Street) -- Game-maker Zynga Inc., which is preparing to go public, said its earnings for the first nine months of 2010 fell 36% from a year earlier as expenses...
10/21/2011
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Q&A: DoubleDown exec takes us inside a Facebook ‘casino’
(USA) -- Our guest on the latest GeekWire radio show and podcast was Glenn Walcott, president of Seattle startup DoubleDown Interactive, which offers the DoubleDown...
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