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You won't find this game down on the Farm(Ville). But 20 years ago, it was the king of action games and led to the birth of a new genre. Now it has come to Facebook. And with as little effort as possible, it's making everything Zynga (NASDAQ: ZNGA) produces look like ToeJam & Earl. No,...

Zynga might be a terrible company, but it accounts for 12% of Facebook's revenue. Some people don't seem to think that 12% is a large amount of money. But if you were a Facebook (FB) investor and the company suddenly lost $300+ million in revenue, would you be concerned? Or would you laugh it off...

With prices always falling, Zynga (NASDAQ: ZNGA) is like the Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT) of social gaming. Well, not exactly. When Wal-Mart announces a price drop, it usually involves consumer goods. When Zynga announces a price drop, it will -- from this day forward -- most likely refer to its stock. I...

Which companies could benefit and which could suffer at the success or failure of Zynga's public debut? Later this morning, Zynga will begin trading on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the symbol “ZNGA.” The company's long-awaited IPO was announced at a price between $8.50 and $10, and is now...

If unrelenting greed wasn't enough to chase investors away, maybe Zynga's accounting practices will turn them off. Business Insider has posted an interesting video from Bloomberg's Cory Johnson, in which the reporter breaks down the social game company's revenue and so-called profits. In short,...

Zynga's long-awaited public offering is finally coming to fruition. While the launch date has yet to be announced, the company has revealed its plans to offer 100,000,000 shares of Class A common stock at a price between $8.50 and $10 per share. This is significantly lower than the reported $14...

Online social media company Zynga, popular for its interactive games like Words with Friends and FarmVille, is looking to raise between $1.5 billion and $2 billion in an initial public offering, a source familiar with the matter said. An IPO filing could be submitted to the SEC as soon as...

Just a few minutes ago, CNBC's Kate Kelly reported that Zynga is set to go public any day now, perhaps as soon as tomorrow. The company is going to raise an astounding $1.5 to $2 billion in the initial public offering, and has selected Morgan Stanley as the lead underwriter of the IPO. What is...

If you had the opportunity to loan $25 to help someone build a farm in another country, would you do it? Or would you rather spend that money buying goodies in FarmVille? This is the challenge that Kiva – a nonprofit group dedicated to facilitating $25, interest-free loans to entrepreneurs in...

Bob Rice of Tangent Capital Partners told Bloomberg TV that he agrees with the speculation that Zynga, the developer behind FarmVille, Mafia Wars, CityVille and other hit Facebook games, could be worth $7 to $9 billion. Rice has been very encouraged by the success of Zynga, whose $400 million...