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Fast Company
July 2009
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Boomtown Virtual goods, such as avatars and Facebook gifts, are attracting major brands, celebrities, and venture capital. The money is real.   |
InternetNews
March 9, 2011 |
Facebook Movie Rental to Be a Box Office Smash? The first-ever VOD movie service at Facebook could roll with the momentum of several other trends to become a success, according to industry analysts. |
InternetNews
August 20, 2009 |
Facebook Tests Branded Virtual, Real-World Gifts Facebook is expanding its efforts to turn its online Gift Shop into a money-making opportunity through sales of other companies' virtual - and potentially physical - goods. |
Search Engine Watch
October 2, 2010
Jonathan Allen |
9 Reasons Why it Might Be Time For Marketers to Value Virtual Goods Convergence of web, mobile and TV may create stronger emotional connections between audiences. |
BusinessWeek
February 25, 2010
Ari Levy et al. |
Facebook Tests a Payment Service for Virtual Goods Facebook will explore the feasibility of extending its virtual currency. At stake: a potential $530 million in additional revenue. |
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. |
Fast Company
April 1, 2011
Leah Fabel |
The Business of Facebook After all its maneuverings to get us to open up, the social-networking behemoth is expected to go public itself sometime this year. Here, a look at the numbers propelling its estimated $50 billion valuation. |
BusinessWeek
February 25, 2010
Levy & Galante |
Who Wants to Buy a Digital Elephant? Sales of virtual goods are taking off. And it's not just kids who are buying. |
Fast Company
November 1, 2007
Kate Coe |
Fast Talk: Stuffing the Channel Robert Greenblatt has reinvigorated Showtime with distinctive programming such as Weeds, eclectic talents such as Mary-Louise Parker and Peter O'Toole, and a wide online distribution strategy. |
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. |
CRM
August 2012
Judith Aquino |
Facebook Sets Its Sights on Advertisers The world's largest social networking ups the ante on its offerings. |
InternetNews
July 16, 2009 |
Facebook Talks Ad Tech for Devs, Hits 250M Users Social networking giant Facebook has rolled out a new set of ad-targeting technologies to better help developers monetize their applications and expanded its virtual currency program across the Facebook Platform. |
The Motley Fool
January 25, 2011
Roger Nachman |
What Else Can Facebook Do? The Goldman deal has brought on a lot of scrutiny to the social networking site, as the SEC is looking into whether Facebook has to go public because of the number of investors it has. |
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 |
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. |
Fast Company
Nanton & Dicks |
4 Big Ideas On How To Manage Your Online Persona How do you create a timeline that draws an audience and impresses potential clients? Here are a few important tips to take on board whenever you're posting online. |
InternetNews
June 4, 2009
Michelle Megna |
Facebook See Profits in New Payment System As Facebook continues to both grow and avoid profitability, can the social networking site make money by employing a site-wide e-commerce platform? |
BusinessWeek
June 17, 2010
Joseph Galante |
CrowdFlower's Virtual Pay for Digital Purchases Employment outfit CrowdFlower has a giant on-demand workforce that can choose to use fake compensation to buy fake offerings on social media sites. |
BusinessWeek
May 28, 2007
Ronald Grover |
I Oughta Be In Pictures Smelling opportunity, heavy hitters are suddenly cranking up new studios. |
The Motley Fool
August 9, 2007
Rich Smith |
Weeds of Wisdom An interview with "Weeds" creator Jenji Kohan about TV trends, the future of the entertainment biz, and his new soccer mom-slash-pot dealer sit-com. |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2012
Rachel Courtland |
Virtual Currency Gets Real Will Facebook Credits and other social scrip challenge government-backed currencies? |
Fast Company
November 2013
Sarah Kessler |
Facebook's App Strategy Six years ago, Facebook began encouraging developers to integrate their products into its social network. Things haven't always worked out as planned. |
Search Engine Watch
December 11, 2010
Avril Korman |
Virtuality & Mortality: Who Owns The Online Content We Create After We Die? Laws beginning to recognize virtual property as part of estate planning. |
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 26, 2010
Tim Beyers |
Is This the Next Apple? Facebook looks more like the Mac maker every day |
InternetNews
August 21, 2009 |
Facebook Pages Publish to Twitter With New Tool Promotional marketing on the top social networking site just got easier with a new tool that automatically publishes Facebook Pages content to Twitter. |
Fast Company
Jul/Aug 2014
Carr & Wilson |
Facebook's Plan To Own Your Phone To make Facebook more relevant than ever, the company has targeted the very core of the app economy to fulfill its vision for the next half-decade. |
Fast Company
September 13, 2011
Farhad Manjoo |
Could Zynga Game On Without Facebook? Can you build a long-term business on other people's platforms? |
The Motley Fool
August 9, 2010
Manikandan Raman |
Consolidation Clouds Social Gaming Space Acquisitions are in the air. |
InternetNews
June 10, 2009
Michelle Megna |
Facebook Users to Get Personalized URLs Facebook's new personalized usernames and URLs could be a boost to online marketers, but is it a lost opportunity for the social networking site? |
Fast Company
December 2005
Alan Deutschman |
Building a Better Movie Business It's the iconic American industry. But audiences are vanishing, piracy is soaring, and new technology is treacherous. Can Tinseltown innovate its way out of trouble? |
The Motley Fool
August 5, 2010
Carl Bagh |
Small Buy, Big Plans: Google Buys Slide Google recognizes the emerging threat from Facebook. |
BusinessWeek
July 14, 2003
Grover & Green |
Hollywood Heist Will tinseltown let techies steal the show? The ripping and burning of movies to DVDs is growing into a global underground industry that last year cost film studios an estimated $3 billion in lost DVD sales. It's prodding the guys in Guccis into action. |
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. |
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 3, 2008
Tim Beyers |
How Did Facebook Do That? Virtual gifts -- those little $1 on-screen doo-dads you can give to your friends -- may be producing $34.5 million in annual revenue for the social-networking superstar. |
InternetNews
July 13, 2007
Nicholas Carlson |
Is Facebook Worth Its Platform Hype? Coverage for Facebook since the platform launch has been nothing short of iPhone-esque in some circles. But Facebook users aren't so sure the platform is worth the hype. |
