Posts Tagged ‘Zynga’

Electronic Arts (NASDAQ:EA) has an illustrious past.  A great metaphor, considering EA’s own NBA series of games, is someone like Michael Jordan, who after taking some time off from being a champion with the Chicago Bulls, returned back to the game after an absence.  But the game had changed.  He played for the Washington Wizards, [...]

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Despite recent stock market woes, Zynga is pushing forward with the acquisition of four social and mobile gaming companies. Reuters reports that the buyouts, which have been in the works for the last few months, were confirmed on Wednesday by Zynga mobile executive David Ko, who did not disclose the amount of the sale.

Where there’s a mention of “tech,” the word “bubble” is never far behind.  The wildly popular gaming company Zynga made its New York Stock Exchange debut at $10 per share, but dropped 5% on the first day of trading and didn’t recover, which had many analysts wondering if the company could live up to the [...]

Zynga is all set to go public today in the largest initial public offering in the social games space to date.  It’s undoubtedly one of the hottest IPOs of the year and various pundits are weighing in on both sides of the fence about whether or not to buy.  Speculation has run rampant for a [...]

IPO mania is sweeping through the social media world. It’s time for you to take a close look at these companies and weed out the non-hackers!

If you want a piece of Facebook, Twitter or any number of other pre-IPO companies, you need to come ready to play (and pay). To deal directly with these businesses, you need to wield some serious venture capital money. To pick them up in trading venues such as SecondMarket and SharesPost, you need to be [...]

It’s all about the money … but the payday is going to someone you’re forgetting!

It doesn’t matter that we’re coming up on the end of Q4. There’s A LOT happening in the social media IPO market right now! Check out these 10 companies:

Zynga’s regulatory filing this morning shows that Zynga is preparing to offer 100 million shares at between $8.50 and $10.  This could possibly net them up to $1 Billion if all goes well, and would price their entire company’s full worth at around $7 Billion, which is far lower than the $20 Billion that was [...]

According to news from Wednesday morning, the world’s gaming stock enthusiasts can stop the guesswork — Zynga is going to IPO in mid-December.  Zynga plans to release 10% of it’s oustanding stock to the public at a price between $8 and $10, and it would bring Zynga around $900 million to make new FarmVilles, CastleVilles [...]