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Games produced by Zynga are the most popular on social networking platform Facebook. According to AppData, Zynga's CityVille, Texas HoldEm Poker, Hidden Chronicles, CastleVille, and FarmVille are currently the most-played games on Facebook.  

FarmVille, Mafia Wars and Poker accounted for 78 percent ... “I am a little disappointed that they didn’t guide to Q1, so there will probably be continued volatility for a while.” Wehner said on the call that the back-end-loaded 2012 ...  

The pixelated cows so many people now spend their lunch breaks playing with online will soon morph into figurines for their desks. Zynga, the San Francisco-based firm behind the popular Facebook games FarmVille and Mafia Wars, has signed a deal with Hasbro ...  

Has the bubble burst for social gaming? Zynga, leaders of the Facebook gaming craze and the developers behind Farmville and Words with Friends have revealed their Q4 2011 earnings report, showing huge growth, but also a significant net loss....  

Zynga ended 2011 with the top five Facebook games — among them CityVille, FarmVille and CastleVille— and "we have a strong pipeline for the rest of the year," said Pincus, who founded the company. To that point, Zygna rolls out Zynga Slingo ...  

At least three brokerages downgraded the stock. The owner of the popular Farmville and Cityville games does not disclose the number of its unique payers on Facebook, making it difficult to gauge any possible deceleration trends. Investors are ...  

Zynga Inc. (Nasdaq: ZNGA) will report earnings for the first time today (Tuesday) since going public, and investors want to see if Zynga has a future plan for profits that isn't tightly pinned to Facebook Inc. Zynga is the largest social gamer in the world, behind FarmVille, CityVille, Mafia Wars, and Words with Friends. It has 230 million active monthly users, but growth slowed in the end of 2011 because of few new hit games released...  

Company behind Farmville had a rocky start on the Nasdaq – but it may yet benefit from being friends with FacebookInvestors are waiting to find out how much real money social gaming firm Zynga makes from all its virtual cities and farms when the company reports its first results as a public company.The company behind CityVille, FarmVille and Words With Friends started trading on the Nasdaq stock market last December and its shares initially...  

Zynga Games has been known to have a considerable part of the Facebook community left addicted with its online games. Social-network based games including Farmville and Mafia Wars have left Facebook users spellbound ever since they first showed up online. Now, Zynga Games has signed the dotted line along with Hasbro to unleash a range of toys and physical games on unsuspecting kid and adult fans alike. Off late, Zynga has begun creating a...  

Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, along with his three top leutinants, will get about USD 2 million in just salaries and bonuses, but cannot work on creating a rival to the social networking giant. This has been disclosed in Facebook's ...  

This is Jason Baily, the CEO of East Side Games, with a mic in hand and some beef with Zynga, makers of Facebook games like Farmville. The world doesn’t have much of it, but it could really do with more video game stand-up comedy. VIDEO: Stand-up comedy on Zynga cloning [Develop] ...  

Social network revealed in SEC filing that Farmville, CityVille and Mafia Wars maker accounts for up to 12% of total revenueShares in the social games firm Zynga have soared after Facebook revealed in its $5bn initial public offering filing that the Farmville maker accounts for up to 12% of its total revenue.Investor appetite in Zynga peaked in early trading on Thursday, sending the company's shares price soaring 16% to $12.60 – the highest it...  

Zynga Bingo may not yet be available on Facebook, but we already know that Zynga is planning a cross-promotional train for the game across its other Facebook properties. For example, FVNation has found a promotional image for the upcoming Zynga Bingo promotion in FarmVille, as players will be asked to reach at least Level 6 in Zynga Bingo in order to receive a prize package back on their farm. The prize? A pack of 10 free branded...  

Zynga is the world's largest developer of online social games. It was founded by Mark Pincus in January 2007. The company's offerings include FarmVille, CityVille, Words With Friends, CastleVille, and Zynga Poker. Zynga's games are popular in social ...  

For many Facebook users, it's hard to understand how someone could waste so much time building a fictional farm or organized crime family on either of Zynga's social media games Farmville and Mafia Wars. What may be even more difficult to ...