Zynga Acquires Serious Business

By On February 11, 2010 · Leave a Comment

Today social game publisher Zynga announced that it had acquired rival social developer Serious Business for an undisclosed sum. Serious Business is the developer of hit Facebook game Friends For Sale. The company generates roughly 90% of its revenue through direct sale of virtual goods to users, making it a good fit for Zynga's business [...]

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Zynga Acquires Serious Business

By On February 11, 2010 · Leave a Comment

Today social game publisher Zynga announced that it had acquired rival social developer Serious Business for an undisclosed sum. Serious Business is the developer of hit Facebook game Friends For Sale. The company generates roughly 90% of its revenue through direct sale of virtual goods to users, making it a good fit for Zynga's business [...]

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Serious Business: 90% Of Revenue Comes From Virtual Goods

By On January 8, 2010 · Leave a Comment

This week Jeremy Liew of Lightspeed Venture Partners (Liew will be speaking at our upcoming Engage! Expo taking place next month in New York City) posted an interview conducted by ThinkEquity gaming analyst Atul Bagga with the CEO of social game firm Serious Business, Siqi Chen. In the interview, Chen states that fully 90% of Serious Business's [...]

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Social Gaming, Virtual Goods Discussed in SF Summit

By On June 24, 2009 · 1 Comment

Social gaming is many things to many people, but to the 500+ attendees today at the Social Gaming Summit in San Francisco, it means primarily one thing: games designed to be played with your friends on social platforms like Facebook, MySpace, Hi5, and Twitter. With games like YoVille, Mobsters, Farm Town and Pet Society, the [...]

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