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MAY 6, 2012 ● According to Japan’s Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper, the Japan Consumer Affairs Agency found a virtual item model used social networking service (SNS) websites constitutes a [...]

APRIL 23, 2012 ● For the three months ending March 31st, Facebook recorded $1.06 billion in first quarter revenue. More interestingly, virtual item sales from Zynga games, and Zynga advertising, [...]

JAN. 20, 2012 • Zynga is actively investigating its options to enter legal online gambling with its Zynga Poker game. The title already attracts 7 million players a day, and Zynga says it has [...]

DEC. 7, 2011 • Amongst the slew of new start-ups in the social network and mobile game space during 2011, Funzio stood out for several reasons. First, there was the $20 million in funding through [...]

NOV. 25, 2011 • The launching of another social game company is not such a novel event in the waning weeks of 2011. What is novel is when that new developer, in this case Pangalore, launched [...]