Zynga

There are plenty of reasons to doubt Zynga's future. This isn't one of them. As we speak, Zynga (NASDAQ: ZNGA) is down more than 7%. While it's hard to say if the departure of Laurent Desegur -- Zynga's former Chief Technology Officer -- has anything to do with the stock's decline, the media is (...

This weekend in Barron's online: Hedge-fund manager Ray Dalio's thoughts on the troubles in Europe, the effect of comments made by David Einhorn, and the consequences of the Facebook IPO flop. Cover Story "Ray Dalio's World" by Sandra Ward. Ray Dalio, fabled hedge-fund manager, is the head of...

Now that the long-awaited IPO is finally here, investor attention is turning toward the stock's rise or fall today and the record-breaking growth that may be in its future. Will Facebook soar to Google's (NASDAQ: GOOG) level? Or is the company more of a Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) type of entity, one...

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,...

Is now the time to get out? Or is there a hidden play here that investors are missing? (Hat Tip to @CNBCMelloy) That depends on what you think of their business models. For all its mistakes in 2011, Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) is still the leader of video streaming. It is still the leader of DVD...

If you haven't already invested in Facebook, it might be too late. Not for the IPO, which is still forthcoming, but for the secondary markets that have allowed investors to buy a piece of Facebook before the company's initial public offering. According to Bloomberg, representatives of Facebook...

The evolution of social gaming has begun. But are the changes what we expected? Ingo Hinterding, the Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of Crowdpark, recently weighed in on the matter. First and foremost, he spoke about the influx of challengers to the Zynga (NASDAQ: ZNGA) throne. “New...

The online game developer, Zynga (NASDAQ: ZNGA), has been a battle ground stock since its IPO in December, 2011. Bearish traders and analysts have been concerned of the company's dependency on Facebook, whereas the bulls' thesis has been that Zynga's valuation should be 12% of Facebook's valuation...

As Zynga loses players, Facebook is losing gamers. Who's responsible for their decline? IHS (NYSE: IHS) has released a new Screen Digest Media Research Insight report (via Forbes) regarding Facebook's gaming platform. The results are anything but positive; IHS said that after two years of growth...

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...