Zynga’s FrontierVille Breaks 5 Million Daily Active Users
Jun/100
Zynga’s FrontierVille Breaks 5 Million Daily Active Users
On June 9th, social gaming powerhouse Zynga launched its latest creation: FrontierVille . The game takes many of the gameplay elements found in Zynga’s smash hit Farmville and adds some of adventure and spontaneity (not to mention a Wild West theme) to help spice things up. Today, less than two weeks after launch, the company says that it has 5.2 million daily active users. To give some context …
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Daily (Stale) Bread: The news we didn’t post June 4, 2010
Jun/100
Daily (Stale) Bread: The news we didn’t post June 4, 2010
On a day in which we learned of new Guitar Hero and Infamous installments, there were a handful of other news stories that didn’t quite deserve a full mention, but were still deemed worthy of some measure of recognition. These stories, collectively, are the daily stale bread.
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Study: 21 Percent Of Gamers Aware Of FarmVille Play It Daily
May/100
Study: 21 Percent Of Gamers Aware Of FarmVille Play It Daily
A survey from Ipsos OTX MediaCT’s GamePlan Insights finds 21 percent of gamers who are aware of FarmVille play the Zynga title daily, nearly 30 percent play it weekly, and some 45 percent play it at least every few months. As part of its tracking study, GamePlan has surveyed 1,000 gamers — aged 13 to 59 years old — each week since October 2008, polling hardcore gamers, mainstream gamers, and …
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A daily dose of postings from The Chronicle’s technology blog (sfgate.com/blogs/tech) / Facebook, PayPal partner for …
Feb/100
A daily dose of postings from The Chronicle’s technology blog (sfgate.com/blogs/tech) / Facebook, PayPal partner for …
Facebook members will soon be able to use PayPal to make purchases, the two companies said Thursday. Facebook Inc. and PayPal, a unit of eBay Inc., said they have agreed to a strategic relationship that will allow Facebook advertisers to offer the PayPal…
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