social-gaming

SAN FRANCISCO MarketWatch - The underwriters of Zynga Inc.'s initial public offering last month initiated coverage of the stock on Wednesday, with all but one calling the social-gaming firm a buy.

MarketWatch.com - Software Industry News 2012

Zynga Inc., the San Francisco social-gaming company, has filed to go public, with the big kahuna—Facebook Inc.—expected to follow next year.

Millionaire Watch: In Silicon Valley a Countdown Is Under Way Pui-Wing Tam 2011

Mr. Jensen represents social-gaming company Zynga, which filed to go public in July, but he wasn't speaking on the company's behalf.

Groupon IPO Cheers Valley Shayndi Raice 2011

Bankers for Zynga are aiming to launch the social-gaming company's IPO this month, people familiar with the matter told The Wall Street Journal last month.

Zynga's Expenses, Revenue Jump Nathalie Tadena 2011

Traditional videogame makers such as Activision and EA have seen their revenues stagnate as they struggle to plug into the fast-growing, online social-gaming business that Zynga Inc. has dominated.

Bullets Fly as Game Rivals Compete for Holiday Sales Stu Woo 2011

Japan 's biggest mobile social-gaming platform by revenue, in 1999, Ms. Namba has preached the importance of building new businesses from within, largely shunning acquisitions even as it evolved from being an Internet auction site to a mobile phone portal and then a social networking service.

DeNA By Daisuke Wakabayashi 2010

While the social-gaming company is increasing revenue quickly, 130% in the first quarter, it also is highly profitable.

Nothing Virtual About Zynga Profits Rolfe Winkler 2011

The social-gaming company, in a third amendment to a filing for its initial public stock offering, on Wednesday disclosed that profit in the second period ended June 30 fell to $1.3 million from $27.2 million a year earlier.

Zynga Filing Shows Slowing Growth Shayndi Raice 2011

The firm also invested directly in hot social-gaming company Zynga Inc. in 2009 and earlier this year invested directly in daily deals site Groupon Inc.

Andreessen Horowitz Raises $200 Million Co-Investment Fund Pui-Wing Tam 2011

The new businesses, staffed mainly by health-industry veterans, have adapted common social-gaming features to help companies motivate their employees to get fitter or to encourage doctors to keep in touch with their colleagues and patients online.

Start-Ups Look to Social Gaming to Make Health Care Less of a Pain Timothy Hay 2011