FarmVille

Not all fun and (video) games

2013-03-31 10:09:00

Big Huge Games in Timonium closed last May, taking nearly 100 jobs with it. Nine months later, a local studio that was launched from the ashes of the video game-maker shut down, too. And Zynga, which created FarmVille and Words with Friends, closed its...

Zynga closes Timonium video game studio in broader consolidation

2013-02-25 16:00:00

Zynga, the video game maker best known for FarmVille and Words With Friends, has closed its Timonium office as part of a broader corporate consolidation, company officials said Monday. The company also made changes at three other offices, closing and...

How will hoax impact Te'o in NFL Draft?

2013-04-25 00:00:00

Perhaps the height of the absurdity in the tabloid phase of Manti mania came in early February, when ESPN.com counted among its top headlines that the former Notre Dame All-America linebacker was deleting his Twitter account. Perhaps a game of FarmVille...

Gavin Newsom says the revolution will be digitized

2013-02-08 12:00:00

-------------------- Citizenville How to Take the Town Square Digital and Reinvent Government Gavin Newsom with Lisa Dickey Penguin Press: 272 pp., $25.95 -------------------- California Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom has a lot more time on his hands than...

Professor's journey for a school is rich in life lessons

2012-07-30 00:00:00

Laura Pincus Hartman stood before a congregation in a church just south of 75th Street, gazing at anticipatory faces. �� The pastor had just finished preaching an hour-long sermon from the Gospel of Mark about Jesus healing a woman. Hartman was about...

Zynga calls EA lawsuit 'baseless,' countersues

2012-09-14 14:52:00

Zynga Inc. has fired back at Electronic Arts Inc., calling EA's copyright infringement lawsuit against it "baseless" and filing a countersuit alleging that the video game giant for prevented its employees from leaving to work for Zynga. “Today we...

Review: 'The Simpsons: Tapped Out'

2012-08-23 21:55:06

GamerLive.tv America's favorite cartoon family returns to the exciting world of iOS platform games with "The Simpsons: Tapped Out" on the iPad available for download from Apple's App Store. The video game takes the best parts of games like "The Sims" and...

Facebook to Zynga: Social games are growing, not shrinking

2012-08-14 13:20:00

The tiff between the world's largest social network and the company behind the�"FarmVille"� social game escalated this week. Facebook on Tuesday shot back at Zynga, saying the number of people playing games on the social network on a monthly basis grew...

New Media Offer New Ways To Dodge Those Darn Reporters' Pesky Questions

2012-08-09 13:49:06

We are approaching a moment when candidates running for Congress don't have to bother with old-fashioned media. Not so long ago, it might have been unthinkable for a non-incumbent to largely kiss off all but carefully scripted exchanges with local...

Facebook may give access to children under 13

2012-06-12 01:14:00

SAN FRANCISCO — How young is too young to join Facebook? The Menlo Park, Calif., company currently bans anyone under age 13 from joining the world's most popular social network. Yet an estimated 7.5 million preteens — most of them under age...

Woman charged with stealing nearly $10K to purchase 'goods' for Facebook game

2012-06-19 22:30:00

Usually when people steal money it’s to buy something, and that something is typically real and tangible. But an Arlington, Wash., woman who has been charged with stealing nearly $10,000 in very real dollars to purchase “goods” for...

Facebook announces 'app center', paid apps

2012-05-10 12:21:00

Facebook users who haven't yet discovered the joys of FarmVille or plugged in to the sounds of Spotify will be getting an easier way to find apps that run on the site. On Thursday, the site unveiled Facebook App Center, a clearinghouse for social apps...

Absurdly accomplished, Kevin Chou has been an investment bank analyst at Deutsche Bank, a Silicon Valley venture capitalist at Canaan Partners and the CEO of a rare species of startup company, namely, a profitable one -- all before he turned 30.

2011-12-28 11:16:52