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Facebook To File $5 Billion IPO: The Biggest In US History

It is IPO time in Techland once again. Facebook, the world’s biggest social networking service is finally going to file its IPO soon. This IPO has been discussed to no end since the rumors came out...
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Zynga Launches ‘Scramble With Friends’ For iOS

Zynga, the world’s biggest social gaming developer has now released ‘Scramble with Friends. This new game is available on the App Store and is coming soon to Android. This game has only been released...
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Rovio Shrugs Off $2.25Billion Acquisition By Zynga

Now this is huge news. According to a report in the New York Times, Rovio – the makers of Angry Birds, the most popular games across all platforms ever, turned down a $2.25Billion acquisition offer...
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No Facebook Developed Games, Confirms Mark Zuckerberg

There you have it. Straight from the horse’s mouth. Facebook will not develop any games. Mark Zuckerberg himself confirmed the same during his interview with Charlie Rose, wherein he discussed about...
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Zynga On An Aggressive Hiring Spree In India

Zynga, the star of social gaming, has hogged the limelight recently with the introduction of the new game Mafia Wars 2 in 3D, along with support for 16 languages. Now, it has announced its plans to extensively...
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Zynga Brings ‘Words With Friends’ To Facebook

Zynga, the social game developer has announced a new game titled  ‘Words With Friends’ for Facebook. First launched in July 2009, it was earlier available as a mobile game.  The interesting...
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Facebook Credits Available In India From July 1st

Facebook credits which left the beta stage in January this year has announced new international payment methods in 13 countries including India. The rollout will start from July 1st which happens to be...
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Yahoo! Overhauls Its Email Service; Shifts Attention To Social Media

To match up with the pace of Gmail’s growth and Hotmail’s marketshare, Yahoo! has overhauled its email service. Gmail has been the most popular email service in India since October 2009 but,...
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Facebook Credits Soon Coming To India

A major reason behind the popularity of Facebook is the galore of apps and games available to users. A major share of these games have features which can only be unlocked by buying them as virtual goods....
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Zynga Sets Up Creative Studio In India

Zynga, the social gaming behemoth, is starting a creative studio in India to conceptualise and develop games for global markets, and plans to double its staff here as well. Zynga Studio-I will be the company’s...
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Twitter Valuation Explodes To $7.7 Bn In Secondary Market

A recent auction in the secondary market valued Twitter at $7.7 billion. The auction, conducted by SharesPost, sold 35000 shares at $34.50 per share. Since Twitter has approximately 224 million shares,...
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MOL Brings Zynga Game Cards To India – Will You Buy To Play?

MOL AccessPortal Berhad (MOL) and Zynga Inc today announced the launch of Zynga Game Cards in Asia Zynga Game Cards will be available for purchase in more than 500,000 outlets in six Asian countries including...
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Is Zynga Going To Offer SMS Based Payments, Net Banking And Game Cards In India?

Zynga seems to be doing well, very well! It opened its office in India in February 2010, clearly underlining India’s importance in its long term plans. It has come a long way since the whole Indian...
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Facebook, Groupon’s Valuations Go Up, Up And Away!!

It seems like it is still Christmas for the valuation of Facebook and Groupon. No matter how mixed the year was for the social networking giant, December was a big month for it as it pipped Yahoo worldwide,...
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Will Women Drive The Future Of The Internet?

Business Insider has an interesting report on how women are possibly spearheading the internet today. It has made a revelation, which none of us might have even considered in our wildest thoughts. Well...
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Recap 2010 : Social Networking

If you thought Social Networking was big in 2009, you should have seen it 2010. Last year, Social Networking/Social Media was plain vanilla Bruce Wayne(in a manner of speaking), this year it became Batman...
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