Friends with Wall Street again? Facebook shares soar
Facebook shares were up more than 20 percent to $23.52 as of this post, the day after its third-quarter earnings slightly exceeded expectations. The key was ad revenue. Wall Street seems to be...
View ArticlePre/post earnings: Apple, Amazon, Zynga
An A-to-Z look at earnings, from Apple and Amazon, which report today, to Zynga, which released results Wednesday. • Let’s start with the iPad — it’s been hours since we’ve mentioned it, after all....
View ArticleAnonymous attacks/threatens websites on Guy Fawkes day
It’s Nov. 5, Guy Fawkes day, and hacking collective Anonymous — which has adopted the famous English revolutionary Fawkes as its symbol — is taking action again, protesting everything from government...
View ArticleZynga’s woes continue
Gamers, investors and executives are fleeing Zynga, and the Wall Street Journal reports that all the upheaval has driven CEO Mark Pincus to “near tears.” Pincus is reportedly being counseled by Apple...
View ArticleFacebook and Zynga: friends with reduced benefits?
Zynga and Facebook on Thursday updated their relationship status. They’re moving away from their co-dependency, and also from exclusivity — mostly on Zynga’s part. The San Francisco company makes...
View ArticleTech check: Zynga’s games over; Facebook privacy flaw plugged plus IPO...
We’re closing 2012 with a check on some of the Silicon Valley companies we often wrote about this year: • Zynga is doing some previously announced year-end cleaning: It shut down PetVille and (revised)...
View ArticleTech stocks taking a beating — except for Netflix
Tech stocks are taking a beating, for the most part, on Wall Street this morning. As of 9 a.m. Pacific time, the tech-heavy Nasdaq is down more than 1.2 percent. After hitting the $30 mark last week,...
View ArticleTech roundup: Zynga’s shares, HP’s Dell talk, Twitter’s Vine, Microsoft’s...
We’ve got your grab bag of tech news: • Second life for Zynga shares? The social-games maker’s stock is zooming up more than 11 percent to $3.05 as of this post, the day after its fourth-quarter...
View ArticleStock watch: HP, Zynga, Aruba jumping
Silicon Valley’s big gainers on the stock markets today: • HP CEO Meg Whitman says “we clearly still face a long road ahead,” according to the Merc’s Steve Johnson‘s report about the Palo Alto...
View ArticleOnline gambling: Nevada, N.J., Delaware and Zynga — they’re all in
Nevada did it last week, and New Jersey did it this week. We’re talking legalizing online gambling, a potential gold mine for revenue-hungry states and casinos and tech companies such as Zynga, which...
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