The social gaming company being in the news for quite some time for its new-to-launch game portal Zynga.com and on the other of $228 million building deal – the company taking a step further investors in Zynga are planning to sell stocks in the near future, reports The Wall Street Journal. The plan comes just three months after the gaming company filed its December Initial Public Offering, breaking a 165-day lockup early in an attempt to reduce future volatility of the stock price of the company. Zynga’s previous close was recorded...
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Electronic Arts or just EA (as we know), the company behind the hit games like Dead Space, PopCap, Real Racing and lots more and in order to continue its urge of doing further bigger the company is planning on stepping up a support for Apple’s iPad 3 – the latest Apple added last week only. Speaking with MacWorld, Nick Earl, the SVP of Global Mobile and Social...
What to be called it as an interesting and strategic move – Chinese online video company Youku agreed to acquire its major rival Tudou in a stock transaction deal, valued at about $864 million, reports WSJ. The deal will result into creating the largest company in China on advertising revenue terms and representing a bid for dominance in a fast-growing and increasingly competitive sector in the country. ...
There will be no disc drive in the next version of Xbox, the gaming console is going to ditch the optical drive and in return going to put in downloads and state memory, MCV, British video game trade magazine reports. MCV sources mentioned that the briefings have been issued under “the strictest NDA” they have ever encountered. Furthermore, exciting news is that...
The social gaming giant Zynga which is in the urge to launch its own gaming website soon in order to reduce its dependencies on Facebook, Japan’s Konami and two other game makers have joined Zynga’s new gaming network. The website, Zynga.com, became open to the public on Monday, allowing users to make personal profiles and play games. Rob Dyer, head of partner...
Apple in its current ongoing iPad 3 event give the company a platform even to do more and show off Retina display games and apps for the newest iPad version. Namco demonstrated Sky Gamblers whereas Autodesk demonstrated SketchBook Ink, Air Supermacy and Epic shared a new Infinity Blade game called as Infinity Blade: Dungeons. All three games are iOS-exclusives versions....
Sony Computer Entertainment today announced that it will release the open beta version of PlayStation Suite SDK next month which allow it to content with developers and the official version later this year. SCE will also release the official version of PlayStation Suite SDK at $99 annually later this year, allowing content developers to have their content distributed...
A new “big and good” number rolled out from the world’s largest social networking site Facebook that it has paid more than $1.4 billion to game developers which even includes other app makers in 2011. The number was revealed during the Facebook talk at the Game Developers Conference held yesterday. Facebook’s games product manager Matt Wyndowe stated that how much of the Facebook app creators had earned on the platform, a number that was unveiled at the time social networking giant announced its IPO filing. But noting an interesting...
In a fight to best talent across the companies from time to time, another tech wiz was tapped – this time Activision Blizzard grabbed Microsoft executive Dennis Durkin as Chief Financial Officer, replacing interim CFO Thomas Tippl and reporting to CEO Bobby Kotick. The appointment comes less than a week ago after the company plans to lay off about 600 employees. “We...
The latest to add outside social world, the social game maker Zynga bought a building that it is going to use as its San Francisco HQ for $228 million; the company mentioned it in its regulatory filings. Zynga which last week announced that is going to launch a beta version of its game portal on its own game, instead of following the suite on Facebook that it is...
