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Facebook seems to have two different timeline layouts now. My professional FB account has all the updates on the right and the basic info on the left. My personal account still uses the very controversial two column timeline. I am…
Groupon, Facebook , and Zynga are currently having difficulties since their initial public offerings. Their losses can go as much as 70%. Currently, public cloud computing companies are not affected. This is primarily because…
Zynga may be on its way to becoming a serious competitor to Amazon’s robust Infrastructure as a Service, since the social network gaming giant will soon sell cloud IaaS to game makers in need of a hosting platform. Zynga may not…
Zynga has made significant contributions on the online gaming industry with its popular games such as CastleVille, Mafia Wars and Farmville. These games were initially dependent on Amazon Web Services servers (Amazon EC2) that…
Zynga , the San Francisco based company which specializes in Facebook games, priced its initial public offering late Thursday at $10 per share, raising $1 billion with a company value of about $7 billion. This offering makes it…
After much anticipation, the date for Groupon’s IPO is set for November 4th where the company seeks to raise $621 million from the offering, valuing it at $11.4 billion. Groupon is planning to offer only 5% of its shares to the…
Microsoft is helping game developers roll out games faster by offering them tools and, in return, having them host their games on Windows Azure . Microsoft launched this week at the Casual Connect in Seattle, a toolkit for…
Zynga recently filed an initial public offering (IPO) which we have reported about earlier . This move is a result of Zynga’s business partnership with Facebook and their popular games such as FarmVille and CityVille. It is…
Silicon Valley is waiting for next IPOs to happen, but the candidates are keeping their exact dates secret - or better flexible. Now there are rumors that Zynga will file for an IPO as early as tomorrow with a valuation between…