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July 28, 2010
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Disney Jumps Into Social Gaming, to Buy Playdom Walt Disney Co is all set to take a leading market share in fast-growing online social gaming space with its $563.2 million deal to buy social game-start-up Playdom. |
The Motley Fool
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Viacom Can Rock Without MTV Games, robots, and kiddie shows fuel Viacom's future. |
The Motley Fool
November 9, 2009
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
EA Goes Fishing in Facebook's Pond Social-network game maker Playfish gets reeled in by Electronic Arts |
InternetNews
January 24, 2011 |
Zynga Adds Mobile Games Developer Area/Code Zynga snaps up the developer of popular iPhone and Android games like "Drop7" and "CSI Crime City." |
The Motley Fool
November 3, 2011
Patrick Martin |
Electronic Arts Scores Another Win Battlefield 3 sold 5 million copies in its first week, but EA still isn't a buy. |
The Motley Fool
July 19, 2007
Steven Mallas |
Viacom's Casual Investment The media firm earmarks $100 million for kid-friendly online gaming sites. Investors, the great thing about Viacom's intentions is that it can make a big splash without draining its corporate coffers. |
The Motley Fool
August 5, 2010
Carl Bagh |
Small Buy, Big Plans: Google Buys Slide Google recognizes the emerging threat from Facebook. |
The Motley Fool
July 19, 2011
Michelle Zayed |
How Bright Is Zynga's Future? Zynga is a new business and investors are skeptical, but if it makes the right decisions it could become a leading online gaming company. |
The Motley Fool
July 15, 2011
Patrick Martin |
Why Zynga May Not Be Worth Every Penny Despite its impressive numbers, I won't go near the game maker. |
The Motley Fool
February 29, 2008
Anders Bylund |
Viacom Rocks Out, Robot-Style Entertainment production powerhouse Viacom cites the writers strike as one of the three major reasons behind its fine performance in the fourth quarter. |
The Motley Fool
June 28, 2005
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Viacom's Game Face MTV and Midway hook up to marry music with the latest wave of video games. As video games continue to evolve, developers have a greater ability to adapt in-game advertising to make it current. Despite its depressed shares, Viacom is about to plug into yet another promising outlet. |
The Motley Fool
December 16, 2011
Evan Niu |
Did You Buy Zynga Today? Today was Zynga's first day trading in public. |
BusinessWeek
April 22, 2010
Douglas MacMillan |
Zynga and Facebook. It's Complicated As long as Zynga keeps supplying Facebook with hit games -- and ad revenue -- it could be a long and profitable partnership. |
The Motley Fool
August 14, 2009
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Game Over, Man The video game industry is shrinking. Time to break out the cheat codes. |
The Motley Fool
September 24, 2011
Patrick Martin |
Can EA Top Zynga? Let's see how well the Zynga IPO should do now that it has some real competition. |
The Motley Fool
January 17, 2012
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Investors Don't Get Zynga Zynga doesn't win if traditional gaming loses. |
The Motley Fool
December 4, 2008
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Throw This Stock Away Viacom may be a force in free on-demand video streaming, but once the playing field has been completely leveled, there will be too much content chasing too few eyeballs. |
The Motley Fool
July 22, 2004
Tim Beyers |
Viacom's Dazzling Performance Couch potatoes watch more ads as the firm grows its cash pile. It's too early to tell if Viacom shares really are a bargain, but cash flow could continue to improve after Blockbuster is finally spun off this fall. |
The Motley Fool
April 25, 2006
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Viacom Caught in the Xfire Old-school media companies keep snapping up new-economy upstarts as trophy wives. Yesterday, Viacom announced that it would acquire Xfire.com in a $102 million deal. Investors, take note. |
The Motley Fool
January 5, 2012
Patrick Martin |
Zynga Offers More of the Same The company's latest game feels oddly familiar. |
The Motley Fool
February 25, 2011
Aditi Baid |
Zynga: Now With More Zing! Zynga, the company behind Facebook's most popular games, joins the lineup of tech companies achieving sky high valuations. |
The Motley Fool
September 17, 2008
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
The DJ Is in the House at Activision Viacom, the video gaming giant behind the Guitar Hero franchise, is working on a disc jockey mashup game called DJ Hero. |
The Motley Fool
June 6, 2011
Matthew Argersinger |
E3 2011: The Video Game Industry's Social Future Join our analysts as they get ready to visit this year's big video game convention. |
The Motley Fool
April 25, 2005
Steven Mallas |
Disney Plays Games to Win Interactive revenue matters to Disney. It's buying a video-game development studio and starting another from scratch. |
The Motley Fool
December 16, 2011
Tamara Rutter |
Companies Cashing In on Mobile Gaming Up your investing game with winning players like Apple, Google, and Zynga. |
The Motley Fool
July 29, 2010
Rich Smith |
GameStop Goes Viral The biggest name in bricks-and-mortar retail gaming made a move into free online gaming, when it purchased Kongregate, a distributor of online games. |
The Motley Fool
August 25, 2010
Manikandan Raman |
How Can Disney Justify Higher Price for Playdom? Disney takes advantage of the growth in social gaming. |
The Motley Fool
August 9, 2011
Patrick Martin |
Electronic Arts Plays a New Game The video game industry is evolving, but this game company is ready. |
BusinessWeek
October 22, 2009
MacMillan et al. |
Inside the App Economy Beyond the goofy games is a world of useful programs that's making fortunes and changing the rules of business. |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2011
David Kushner |
Facebook vs. Google: Game On FarmVille is an internet game that will sway the Facebook-Google struggle and threaten the digital gaming industry |
Inc.
November 2008
Nitasha Tiku |
Horse Race: Putting the App in Apple Now that it's officially sanctioned, companies are rushing to develop games and widgets for the iPhone. |
The Motley Fool
April 26, 2010
Dave Mock |
3 Reasons to Sell Electronic Arts Today Though the gaming sector holds immense potential, at least a few of the 2,205 Motley Fool CAPS members who've weighed in on the company offer reasons to be bearish on EA. |
The Motley Fool
August 6, 2007
Jeremy MacNealy |
Fool on Call: EA's New Game Plan The game developer expects to regain lost market share, but it will come at a cost. Ideally, Electronic Arts will not only recapture market share but also use its pipeline to pump some profit back into the bottom line. Investors, take note. |
The Motley Fool
July 23, 2011
Patrick Martin |
Console Gaming Has Plenty of Lives Left Facebook and mobile phones are exciting, but they won't kill consoles. |
The Motley Fool
September 1, 2011
Tim Beyers |
Finally, Zynga Gets a Serious Competitor "The Sims Social" catches fire on Facebook. |
The Motley Fool
January 6, 2012
Jeremy Bowman |
1 Recent IPO That's Actually Making Money In a sea of overvalued IPOs, Zynga's been turning a profit for a while. |
BusinessWeek
August 6, 2009
Tom Lowry |
Video Games: Will The Beatles Rock MTV? Viacom is counting on the Fab Four to rejuvenate MTV Networks' flagging Rock Band video franchise. |
The Motley Fool
July 24, 2007
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Content Is King.com RealNetworks teams up with King.com for casual gaming. Investors, take note. |
The Motley Fool
October 6, 2005
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Viacom Counts Sheep Details of the Viacom split are as boring as the split itself. No, things aren't going so well for the moribund media stocks lately, but at least some of them are trying. |
BusinessWeek
May 5, 2011
Ashlee Vance |
Electronic Arts's Plan to Get Your Last Gaming Dollar EA's big bet on digital gaming, which has cost hundreds of millions in infrastructure costs, may finally be paying off. |
The Motley Fool
October 20, 2009
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
You Call This a Rebound, Gamers? The video game industry's flat September is a problem. |
The Motley Fool
March 28, 2007
Steven Mallas |
Viacom Revisited: Buying Its Way to Success Viacom had an interesting year as a stand-alone entity. The big risk going forward is that management suddenly loses its ability to keep on top of cultural trends -- its brands must never lose their edgy appeal. Investors, take note. |
The Motley Fool
July 31, 2007
Steven Mallas |
Will Rock Band Shut Off Guitar Hero's Mic? Can EA successfully compete against Activision's rockin' franchise? Investors, take note. |
The Motley Fool
August 11, 2006
Ryan Fuhrmann |
Viacom Revives Free from CBS, the media conglomerate is drawing investors' attention. |
The Motley Fool
November 2, 2005
Steven Mallas |
Viacom's Next Stop: Splitsville The company reports much-improved earnings ahead of its split into one growth business and one cash-cow business. Other big media corporations and investors alike should be watching this one. |
The Motley Fool
November 22, 2010
Andrew Bond |
Real Estate Is Still Booming Here Virtual real estate looks like a better investment than virtual games. |
The Motley Fool
June 14, 2010
Anders Bylund |
Can Guitar Gaming Rise Again? The guitar game genre is on life support, but Viacom is reaching for the defibrillator. |
The Motley Fool
October 26, 2011
Navneet Bajaj |
Pause or Play With Electronic Arts? Keeping future expectations in mind, EA could very well be an intriguing stock. |
InternetNews
February 13, 2007
Nicholas Carlson |
Viacom to Lay Off 250 at MTV Networks Viacom's MTV Networks will lay off 250 employees this week as the entertainment property reallocates resources toward interactive properties and new networks. |
