Zynga C&D Leads To Blingville Boom

By On January 31, 2011 · 1 Comment

Earlier this month social game developer Zynga sent a Cease & Desist letter to Blingville, a rival social game on Facebook that was in beta testing. The letter claimed that the name “Blingville” violated Zynga’s trademarks and threatened the company with legal action if the game’s name was not changed. Zynga operates several major titles [...]

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Zynga Kicks Off 7-Eleven Promotion

By On May 24, 2010 · Leave a Comment

 This week will see social developer Zynga's long-rumored partnership with national convenience store chain 7-Eleven begin in earnest. The promotion will offer players of Zynga's various social games limited edition virtual items with purchase of specific real-world goods from participating 7-Eleven stores. Some of the physical goods attached to the campaign will be covered with [...]

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Zynga Shutting Down YoVille On Tagged, Opening YoVille.com

By On May 11, 2010 · Leave a Comment

This week Zynga announced that it would shut down the version of its YoVillegame running on the social network Tagged.com, effective May 15th, 2010. The initial notification message that YoVille players on Tagged saw regarding the shutdown urged them to resume playing at YoVille.com or a site called Zlive.com, where a "Welcome Package" of virtual goods would be waiting [...]

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Zynga Shutting Down YoVille On Tagged, Opening YoVille.com

By On May 10, 2010 · Leave a Comment

This week Zynga announced that it would shut down the version of its YoVille game running on the social network Tagged.com, effective May 15th, 2010. The initial notification message that YoVille players on Tagged saw regarding the shutdown urged them to resume playing at YoVille.com or a site called Zlive.com, where a "Welcome Package" of [...]

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Quick Stat: Zynga Hits 19M Daily Users

By On August 3, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Zynga has reached a record 19 million daily active users, a new record for the social gaming company, according to GamesBeat. This new milestone means that Zynga may have officially surpassed Yahoo Games as the largest online games operator in the U.S. Zynga now caters to 66 million monthly active users as opposed to the [...]

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YoVille Raises $20k For SPCA With Branded Virtual Goods

By On May 8, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Zynga announced today that its social network-based virtual world, YoVille, had raised over $20,000 for the SPCA in just five weeks since launching their partnership. The campaign, which taps into YoVille's base of over 7 million monthly users, let users adopt a virtual bulldog or cat wearing a San Francisco SPCA vest. Each sale of [...]

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YoVille Raises $20k For SPCA With Branded Virtual Goods

By On May 8, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Zynga announced today that its social network-based virtual world, YoVille, had raised over $20,000 for the SPCA in just five weeks since launching their partnership. The campaign, which taps into YoVille's base of over 7 million monthly users, let users adopt a virtual bulldog or cat wearing a San Francisco SPCA vest. Each sale of [...]

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YoVille Raises $20k For SPCA With Branded Virtual Goods

By On May 8, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Zynga announced today that its social network-based virtual world, YoVille, had raised over $20,000 for the SPCA in just five weeks since launching their partnership. The campaign, which taps into YoVille's base of over 7 million monthly users, let users adopt a virtual bulldog or cat wearing a San Francisco SPCA vest. Each sale of [...]

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Quick Stat: Yoville Hits 6.6M Monthly Uniques Across Facebook And Myspace

By On March 4, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Yoville is a social virtual world that runs as an app on social networks. Last July, when it was acquired by Zynga, the virtual world was tracking 152,466 daily active users on Facebook. That was only two months after it opened to the public. Then, in October, it was drawing in 2,153,041 monthly active users on Facebook [...]

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Quick Stat: Yoville Hits 6.6M Monthly Uniques Across Facebook And Myspace

By On March 4, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Yoville is a social virtual world that runs as an app on social networks. Last July, when it was acquired by Zynga, the virtual world was tracking 152,466 daily active users on Facebook. That was only two months after it opened to the public. Then, in October, it was drawing in 2,153,041 monthly active users on Facebook [...]

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