Stuck Like Glue: Zynga Accounts for 12 Percent of Facebook Revenue in 2011
Zynga is mentioned 24 times in Facebook’s filing, but the most notable mention is related to the game company’s huge contribution to the social network’s top line. Facebook said today in its filing...
View ArticleZynga Accounted for 15 Percent of Facebook's Revenues in Q1, Down From Last Year
Zynga doesn’t report first-quarter earnings until Thursday, but Facebook let the cat out of the bag a little early today in an updated regulatory filing for its upcoming public offering. Before you get...
View ArticleBoku Signs Up Final U.S. Wireless Operator for Carrier Billing
It has taken three-and-a-half years, but Boku has finally signed up all four major U.S. carriers for its mobile payments service. Today, the San Francisco company says that Sprint is coming on board to...
View ArticleiSwifter's New App Brings All Flash-Based Facebook Games to the iPad
Most games on Facebook are built using Adobe Flash, and therefore don’t work on the iPad. While Facebook is slowly working out the kinks to bring more games to mobile, there’s a small company in Menlo...
View ArticleGiving Credit Where Due: Facebook Streamlines Payments System
When Facebook announced last year that its Credits payment system would become the de facto form of currency for purchases made inside games hosted by Facebook, we got the first taste of the social...
View ArticleCan Amazon's Virtual Currency Pay Off Where Facebook Credits Failed?
Amazon today unveiled Amazon Coins, a new virtual currency that will be used for purchasing apps, games and in-app items on Kindle Fire in the U.S. The virtual currency sounds a lot like the defunct...
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