Silicon Alley Insider:
Zynga, the most predominant Facebook social games maker, might be worth $1 billion, analysts tell Bloomberg.
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Silicon Alley Insider:
China's online game market is reported to hit 41 billion yuan ($6 billion USD) in 2010.That will be half of the world's gaming industry market, says Beijing-based Cnzz.com, Inc., almost doubling from 2008 revenue of 20.8 billion yuan.Read the rest of this story »See Also:Class Action Suit In The Works For Victims Of Social (Read More)
VentureBeat:
October numbers are in, and Comscore, Compete, Google, and Quantcast all agree: US traffic to Twitter.com reached a peak in July or August and has begun to decline slowly.According to Comscore, October 2009 traffic was down 8% from from September 2009, while Compete shows a more modest decline of 2.1%. Still, on a year-over (Read More)
VentureBeat:
PlayMesh became famous on the iPhone when it launched its iMafia game in January. The app had a novel virtual goods model in the days before Apple had its own way of embracing what has become an extremely popular business model for monetizing virtual goods.The iMafia game was a hit and it was designed to let players earn po (Read More)
paidContent:UK:
Jason Goldberg, the chief product officer of Xing, the European biz social network that Burda just bought a big stake in, is leaving the company with this deal, about 12 months after his social news startup Socialmedian was sold to the Germany-headquartered company. The Social (Read More)
Mashable!:
For those who’d like to turn the American Music Awards into a more social experience, don’t forget that the pre-show is streaming live on Facebook today, with full integration of Facebook status updates. As a viewer, you can post your own live commentary into your Facebook news feed and read status updates on the event fro (Read More)
Mashable!:
A Canadian woman claims she has lost her health benefits after her insurance company used her Facebook pictures as evidence that she was no longer depressed.Nathalie Blanchard had been on sick leave for a year from her job at IBM in Bromont, Quebec, after being diagnosed with severe depression. The 29-year old was receivin (Read More)
Valleywag:
Remember the moment you knew MySpace was doomed? It came in the form of obnoxious ads. Which your Twitter stream is about to be. So: are you making that cash, or being cashed in on? Pay Per Post is back.Today, the Times runs a trend(ing) piece in the business section on how Twitter users are making serious cash Tweeting ads (Read More)
Valleywag:
Remember the moment you knew MySpace was doomed? It came in the form of obnoxious ads. Which your Twitter stream is about to be. So: are you making that cash, or being cashed in on? Pay Per Post is back.Today, the Times runs a trend(ing) piece in the business section on how Twitter users are making serious cash Tweeting ads (Read More)
Valleywag:
Remember the moment you knew MySpace was doomed? It came in the form of obnoxious ads. Which your Twitter stream is about to be. So: are you making that cash, or being cashed in on? Pay Per Post is back.Today, the Times runs a trend(ing) piece in the business section on how Twitter users are making serious cash Tweeting ads (Read More)
Silicon Alley Insider:
We do give you thicker hair/skinnier dogs/network coverage even if it's not 3G!The New York Times writes today about the increased number of official complaints and lawsuits between competitor companies over advertising claims.Read the rest of this story »See Also:AT&T Can't Stop Verizon From Playing "There's A Map" Ads (Fo (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Most TechCrunch readers have never heard of Tracking202. But affiliate advertisers love the service, which manages advertising campaigns on Facebook, MySpace and other platforms. In fact, Tracking202 was at the center of the Facebook click-fraud issue that we reported on earlier this year. Tracking202 users saw a certain nu (Read More)
Mashable!:
This post is part of Mashable’s Spark of Genius series, which highlights a unique feature of startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. The series is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. Name: Fido Factor Quick Pitch: Fido Factor is a dog-specific local search a (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Brizzly, an application for managing messages in Twitter and Facebook, expanded its beta test today — now you don’t need an invite code, so anyone can use it.The application was created by San Francisco-based Thing Labs, and includes features like expanding links and photos, the ability to “mute” people who you want to stop (Read More)