Zynga has launched its new social game, Ruby Blast, a high-speed race of digging for hidden treasure in an ancient mine that lets users pit their skills against friends online.… Read More
[Editor’s Note: Seattle-area journalist Carol Tice is the co-author, with serial entrepreneur David Lester, of the new book How They Started: How 25 Good Ideas Became Great Companies. In this excerpt,… Read More
Zynga, maker of FarmVille, CityVille and other popular social games, has filed a trademark lawsuit against Kobojo, a startup based in France that makes a game called PyramidVille. Zynga says… Read More
Lately I’ve been feeling like I should be apologizing to my friends on Draw Something, the high-tech social Pictionary knock-off that took the mobile world by storm a couple months… Read More
Whoa, this is pretty huge news. Neil Roseman, the former Amazon.com vice president who joined Zynga last year, has left the company after just 12 months on the job. The… Read More
The virtual coins that players wager in casino-style games on Facebook may be getting a real monetary value, at least some time in the future. The social gaming powerhouse Zynga… Read More
Technology companies reeled in more cash via IPOs than any other sector in 2011, buoyed by public offerings from companies such as Zynga, Jive and LinkedIn. Zillow, the Seattle online… Read More
Guest Commentary: The video game industry is changing like never before. Here are my best attempts at peering into the crystal ball for 2012: Prediction #1: Tablets are the new game… Read More
Zynga is best known for social games such as FarmVille and CityVille in which players interact with one another on Facebook as they build virtual farms or cities. But how… Read More
IPOs from Zynga, Michael Kors and Laredo Petroleum this month have helped revive the market for public offerings, with 28 companies already pricing shares on various stock exchanges this quarter,… Read More
Zynga’s first day as a publicly-traded company was more of a flop, than a big pop. And now the second day isn’t faring much better. Shares of the social media… Read More
Zynga’s growth over the past few years into the top maker of social media games is pretty amazing stuff. And so the creator of FarmVille and Words with Friends today… Read More
The highly-anticipated initial public offering for Zynga is moving forward, with Bloomberg News reporting that the maker of FarmVille, Mafia Wars and other social media games priced 100 million shares… Read More
A quick rundown of stories and offbeat tidbits catching our attention this morning … Pet and animal lovers can now get all of their comedy offerings in one spot as Cheezburger… Read More
One of the biggest stories in Seattle tech in 2011 was the arrival of the Silicon Valley tech titans. It seemed that nearly every other month a new company was… Read More
The New York Times published an unflattering story this past weekend about the hard-charging culture of game maker Zynga, noting how the maker of FarmVille and Mafia Wars operates like… Read More
One of the biggest story lines of the past couple of years in the Seattle tech community has been the arrival of titans such as Facebook, Salesforce.com, EMC, Zynga and… Read More
Facebook is beginning to expand its Facebook Credits system beyond its own social networking site with a new initiative called Facebook Credits for Websites. Seattle-based GameHouse, the RealNetworks games division,… Read More
Ten months after joining Maveron as an entrepreneur-in-residence, Zynga co-founder Andrew Trader has strengthened his role with the Seattle venture capital firm. Trader today was appointed to the position of… Read More
PopCap Games must be pretty confident in its ability to post strong financial results over the next couple years. Either that or the company likes Electronic Arts for more than… Read More
Without Amazon.com, Zynga might not be where it is today. The social gaming powerhouse, which just last week filed to raise up to $1 billion through an initial public offering,… Read More
Zynga, the maker of FarmVille, CityVille and Words With Friends, filed for an initial public offering today that could add $1 billion to its coffers. The fast-growing social gaming powerhouse… Read More
Silicon Valley companies have been flocking to Seattle in recent months, coming here (not for the nice weather obviously) but a desire to tap into the region’s robust technical talent.… Read More
Silicon Valley tech giants have been flocking to Seattle in recent for months, with companies such as Facebook, Salesforce.com and Zynga choosing the region for new engineering centers. Now, the… Read More
Fast-growing social gaming powerhouse Zynga, maker of hit games such as FarmVille and Mafia Wars, is expected to file for an initial public offering in the next week or two,… Read More
Growing up in the Cook household, Sunday night meant two things: Coccia House pizza and “60 Minutes.” So, you can imagine my excitement as Todd Bishop and I sat in… Read More
This week on the GeekWire Podcast, we talk about the time we spent with a “60 Minutes” crew, the opening of Zynga’s new office in Pioneer Square, and the city’s… Read More
Microsoft was criticized three years ago when it sunk $240 million into Facebook, valuing the upstart social networking company at a whopping $15 billion. But that bet may be one… Read More
Neil Roseman probably could have used his technical talents to build a new startup company in Seattle. Instead, the former vice president of engineering at Amazon.com and former CEO at… Read More
Guest Commentary: Last week, Forbes published its annual Midas List, ranking the top 100 tech investors. While these types of lists make great fodder for instapaper, I’ve found drawing substantive conclusions from… Read More
