GigaomIndustry Moves: Yahoo Vet Vish Makhijani Goes To Play With Zynga
Former *Yahoo* search GM Vish Makhijani is on the move again; he’s joining social gaming company Zynga in a “senior operating role,” TechCru… Read more »
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Former *Yahoo* search GM Vish Makhijani is on the move again; he’s joining social gaming company Zynga in a “senior operating role,” TechCru… Read more »
You often hear about how different Facebook and MySpace’s user bases are. Well, maybe they’re not so distinct after all. Yahoo is the No. 1… Read more »
While everyone in the game industry was following the latest news from GDC last week, I happened to notice an MMO milestone happening on Facebook: a casual virtual world called YoVille… Read more »
More evidence of how lucrative the social gaming space has become: EA digital media exec Brandon Barber has jumped ship to Zynga. Barber wil… Read more »
Game industry analyst DFC Intelligence will publish a comprehensive study of massively multiplayer online worlds next month, and was nice enough to give us an advance peek at their list of… Read more »
Startups associated with social gaming were all the funding rage in 2008. (Think SGN’s $15 million last May, for example, or the $17 million that went to Playfish in October.) And… Read more »
This year we watched a tremendous amount of money go into casual web game startups, many or most of which heavily depend on advertising as a revenue stream. As we’re all… Read more »
Google today announced AdSense for games, a year after we first reported its intentions. Google has roped in game developers and publishers including Konami, Playfish, Zynga, Demand Media, games network Mochi… Read more »
Just when Fortune did a long story on Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers not investing in the Internet and Web 2.0 world anymore, the venerabl… Read more »
What began last March with Warbook, a no-frills Facebook fantasy strategy game first conceived by an intern, has lead to today’s announcement: Social Gaming Network, a startup still based in a… Read more »