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Zynga's Stockholders Should Be Very Happy with Facebook Right Now

After Facebook's initial public offering paper revealed that Zynga accounts for 12 percent of the social network's revenue, ZNGA has been on quite a bull run up at NASDAQ. After hovering around $10 per share since its own IPO in December, Zynga's stock graph takes a hockey stick-shaped turn the moment markets opened after Facebook's S-1 filing hit the Web. It kept running up and up until lunchtime on Friday when the stock price peaked at $14.35. ... read more..

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Will Google, Facebook, others 'nuke' Internet over SOPA?

Google, Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, Zynga — and oh sweet baby Jesus no ! — Etsy, along with other Internet-based companies, threaten to "nuke" the Internet in protest of the Stop Online Piracy Act. read more..

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Twitter index: things your mom always told you, Cody Simpson reveals he's single

Twitter users are reminiscing about the past and remembering the advice their mother gave to them with the two top #hastags on Twitter: “#momquotes” and “#ThinkingBack.” read more..

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Zynga sees stock price dip following IPO

Gaming giant Zynga began trading publicly on the NASDAQ exchange today, just 2 1/2 years after it burst onto the scene with 'FarmVille' and six months after it first filed for its IPO.

Gaming giant Zynga began trading publicly on the NASDAQ exchange today, just 2 1/2 years after it burst onto the scene with "FarmVille" and six months after it first filed for its IPO. read more..

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Top tech headlines: Facebook Timeline launched worldwide, Samsung Galaxy Nexus reviews

An example of Facebook's new Timeline profile

Hot topics in the tech blogs for the week ending December 16 include the worldwide rollout of Facebook Timeline, the launch of Samsung’s Galaxy Nexus in the US, Kindle Fire software updates and sales figures, Microsoft reveals Windows SkyDrive for iPhone, and Apple’s Mac App Store reaches 100 million downloads. read more..

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Is Google+ Really a Social Media Game Changer?

Google+ may be less than a year old, but New York Times bestselling author Chris Brogan is ready to crown it a Game Changer. His latest book, which will publish next week, is called Google+ for Business: How Google's Social Network Changes Everything. read more..

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Facebook Empowers Friends to Prevent Suicide

When Anne Collier and I wrote our long out-of-print book,  MySpace Unraveled, we pointed out that MySpace was the largest referrer to the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline. We noted that kids were alive because of the way friends had reached out to save their friends. Facebook, of course, took MySpace's place in [...] read more..

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Can Zynga break free from Facebook?

Zynga General Manager Toney introduces Zynga Casino during the Zynga Unleashed event at the company's headquarters in San Francisco

NEW YORK (Reuters) - "We generate substantially all of our revenue and players through the Facebook platform and expect to continue to do so for the foreseeable future," Zynga wrote in its IPO prospectus. Technically, the admission is called a risk factor. But since Zynga, the wildly popular maker of mobile and social games such as "Mafia Wars" and "FarmVille," generates about 95 percent of its revenue through Facebook, the worry for investors is that its relationship with Mark Zuckerberg's social network is less a risk factor than a business model. ...read more..

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Analysis: Can Zynga break free from Facebook?

Zynga General Manager Toney introduces Zynga Casino during the Zynga Unleashed event at the company's headquarters in San Francisco

NEW YORK (Reuters) - "We generate substantially all of our revenue and players through the Facebook platform and expect to continue to do so for the foreseeable future," Zynga wrote in its IPO prospectus. Technically, the admission is called a risk factor. But since Zynga, the wildly popular maker of mobile and social games such as "Mafia Wars" and "FarmVille," generates about 95 percent of its revenue through Facebook, the worry for investors is that its relationship with Mark Zuckerberg's social network is less a risk factor than a business model. ...read more..

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