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• Angry Birds maker eyes IPO golden egg

  charts with more than 800 million downloads and it had 200 million monthly users at the end of 2011, just short of U.S.-based Zynga 's 240 million."Rovio has fended off all rivals so far," said analyst Tero Kuittinen from Finnish mobile firm Alekstra. "Rovio   Read more »

• King.com inches closer to Zynga on Facebook gaming

  week bought Instagram, a two-year-old photo-sharing application developer with about 30 million users, for $1 billion, while Zynga bought OMGPOP, maker of the popular game "Draw Something", for about $200 million last month.Zynga is now trying to reduce its   Read more »

• Zynga buys game maker behind 'Draw Something'

  such as chat. There also will be a better way to save pictures, which now requires making a screen shot.San Francisco-based Zynga's last big acquisition was Newtoy Inc., the company behind "Words With Friends," in 2010. But fans of "Draw Something" can rest   Read more »

• The top iPhone and iPad apps on App Store

  Bracket Bound 2012 (ESPN)___Top Paid iPad Apps:1. Draw Something by OMGPOP (OMGPOP)2. iPhoto (Apple)3. Words With Friends HD (Zynga)4. Sky Gamblers: Air Supremacy (Namco Networks America Inc. Games)5. Modern Combat 3: Fallen Nation (Gameloft)6. Pages (Apple)7.   Read more »

• Zynga plans $400M secondary stock offering

  Besides stabilizing stock sales, the company also wants to increase the number of its outstanding shares with the offering. Zynga Inc. won't receive any proceeds from the sales. Wedbush analyst Michael Pachter said the offering could be positive for Zynga   Read more »

Around the web

• Zynga Upgraded to “Neutral” at Sterne Agee (ZNGA)

  (NASDAQ: ZNGA) was upgraded by equities research analysts at Sterne Agee from an “underperform” rating to a “neutral” rating in a research note issued to investors on Friday. ZNGA has been the subject of a number of other recent research reports. Analysts 7:38 AM from American Banking and Market News Read more »

• How to Build a Successful Facebook Game

  how did King.com come to be hot on the heels of the number one spot held by FarmVille , Mafia Wars and Words With Friends creator Zynga ? Follow us "We knew that we had to get into Facebook because it was clear that was where our older female audience were 7:12 AM from International Business Times Read more »

• Zynga rolls out Zombie game for iPhone, iPod touch

  network game publisher Zynga has globally launched its Zombie Swipeout, an action-packed, mobile social game for iPhone and iPod touch where players compete with friends in weekly tournaments to slash, smush, bludgeon, freeze and explode as many zombies as 4:46 AM from Telecom Paper Read more »

• Why one Zynga executive left his post for a small startup

  interest in joining the startup in the first place. "When I looked at the technology and talked to the team while I was with Zynga, it was decided that we would not be working together, and I was bummed," Desegur said in a recent interview. "I really liked 4:18 AM from Gamasutra Read more »

• Konami partners with Zynga for new social gaming content

  coming to Facebook and mobile platform. Their new San Francisco based studio, strategically located near mobile partners such as Zynga and Apple, was formed specifically to target this social demographic, bringing back the classic Frogger series with Frogger 3:40 AM from Destructoid Read more »