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888 Exec Joins Zynga To Boost Gaming Revenue

[caption id="attachment_26277" align="aligncenter" width="425" caption="888 executive looks to make Zynga an online gaming company"][/caption] Now that Zynga is eying the online gaming industry's way of doing business, it's time to hire an executive from one of the biggest companies in the industry.  Ex 888 Maytal Ginzburg will now be the new chief operating officer in…

Facebook Earnings Underwhelm Investors

Facebook's first post-IPO earnings report was not a hit with Wall Street investors. Shares in the world's largest social network dropped almost 10% after the report showing  disappointing earnings of $.12/share on revenue of around $1.18 billion. Facebook Stock Disappoints The fact that Facebook's revenue is up 12% over Q1 and still getting punished shows…

Zynga Real-Money Platform Opens

eGaming Review reported this week that Zynga has taken another step towards becoming a real-money online poker provider by opening a tender to accept bids for a real money poker platform. The open tender will allow Zynga to accept bids from online gaming developers to form a partnership for an entrance into the real-money gaming…

US iGaming: Who Are the Major Players?

Online poker is back in the United State and igaming companies, casinos and software providers are lining up to get themselves a piece of the action. While forward thinking gaming shops have been prepping their sites, and partnerships, for this day for years even the best prepared outfits are moving towards legalization at a fevered…

iGaming’s Social Media All Stars: Part 2

When life hand you lemons, you're advised to make lemonade. But making lemonade isn't especially easy when you've had your livelihood pulled out from under you. That's exactly what happened to professional poker player Shane Schleger a.k.a The Shaniac after Black Friday. But Shane didn't take his new situation lying down. Schleger took to Twitter…

Zynga Shares Drop with Facebook IPO

Shares of social gaming giant Zynga fell off a cliff on Friday, mere moments after Facebook stock became available for the first time. Prices of Zynga shares fell so quickly that trading was halted briefly to help stem the losses. By the end of trading, Zynga stock was down 13.5% over the previous day. What's…

OMGPOP Success Story: What We Can Learn

Seven weeks ago, an obscure social gaming company call OMGPOP quietly introduced introduced an app called Draw Something, a sort of social gaming version of Pictionary. Almost immediately, the game rocketed to the top of the iPhone Apps Store and has been downloaded over 35 million times. Of course success like this draws plenty of…

Google Play Brings Google World Under One Roof

Google launched their Google Play feature this week with the hope of further consolidating and integrating their ever growing product portfolio. But for regular Google users, and anyone who isn’t following the tech world closely, deciphering the purpose of Google Play can be a bit tricky. That’s not surprising given the fact that Google Play…

Zynga, Facebook Relationship Reduced

Although Zynga is the largest social gaming company in the world – with roughly 230 million users – it has not reached the top of the industry without help. The company’s games are present on many platforms, with a large portion of its revenue coming from Facebook. However, it appears that Zynga is ready to…

Zynga Launches Bingo Game

[caption id="attachment_16691" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Zynga adds a few twists to bingo."][/caption] Zynga Bingo hasn't even finished beta testing yet and critics are already crying foul instead of bingo! The latest offering  part of the company's popular casino collection and offers a few twist on traditional bingo. But some software developers are alleging that the game…