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Social networking may be growing at a huge pace, just look at Facebook’s rise for 2009; yet, incredibly, social gaming is growing even faster. Facebook has 350 million users by now and is on track to make at least $500 million this year in revenue. But it’s been at it for five years now. In the mean time, Zynga, the largest social gaming company around, is just two years old, has well over 100 million users, many on Facebook, and is reported to make $250 million this year. <\/p>\n
Perhaps it’s no surprise then that the same investors interested in Facebook are also pouring their coffers into Zynga. What may be a little surprising, though, is the fact that the said investor is Digital Sky Technologies, a Russian investment firm, and that it’s buying a $180 million stake in Zynga at an unknown valuation. <\/p>\n
Zynga is now the biggest social gaming company, an industry growing at an incredible pace, and is the rising star of the bunch though, now without its fair share of controversy in the recent “ScamVille” scandal. The company has been acquiring new users at a rapid pace and has been profitable for quite a while now. It hasn’t released any revenue numbers, but it is said to be on track for a hefty turnover this year. Playfish, a smaller competitor, was recently acquired by faming giant EA for $300 mill… (read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Social networking may be growing at a huge pace, just look at Facebook’s rise for 2009; yet, incredibly, social gaming is growing even faster. Facebook has 350 million users by now and is on track to make at least $500 million this year in revenue. But it’s been at it for five years now. In […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84699\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}