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Chris DeWolfe's SGN gaming company acquires Mob Science
SGN, the social gaming company led by Myspace co-founder Chris DeWolfe, has acquired Carlsbad-based game developer Mob Science, the shop behind “Legends: Rise of a Hero,” the company said Thursday. The deal will add Mob Science’s 11...
Tags: Gaming, Gaming Industry, Mergers, Acquisitions and Takeovers, Companies and Corporations, Economy, Business and Finance
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Environmental activists to crash Facebook's shareholder meeting
SAN FRANCISCO -- Facebook is the latest Silicon Valley company to bar the media from attending its annual meeting. Google and Zynga also decided to keep out the media this year. Instead, Facebook suggests the media watch a live webcast of its first...
Tags: Keystone XL Pipeline, Mark Zuckerberg, Chris Christie, Media Industry, Marketing
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California Film Commission sees big jump in tax credit applications
The California Film Commission saw a nearly 20% jump in the number applications for its annual film tax credit lottery. The Film Commission said 380 projects had applied for a piece of the $100 million the state allocates annually for film and...
Tags: Taxation, Credit and Debt, Television Industry, Politics, Jack Reacher (movie)
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Zynga to cut 18% of workforce
Social video game company Zynga Inc. on Monday said it will cut 18% of its staff, or about 520 employees. The struggling maker of games such as "FarmVille" and "Words With Friends" is making the cuts as part of an effort to reduce costs by $70 million...
Tags: Words With Friends (game), Financing and Stock Offerings, FarmVille, Gaming Industry, Pandora Media, Inc.
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Nasdaq settles Facebook IPO debacle with SEC
NEW YORK — Nasdaq OMX Group will pay $10 million for botching Facebook's initial public stock offering last year, a debacle that shook investors' confidence in Wall Street. Nasdaq's penalty would be the biggest ever paid by an exchange, said the...
Tags: Financing and Stock Offerings, Financial Markets, NYSE Euronext, Inc., Media Industry, Stock Market
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Nasdaq to pay $10 million for botching Facebook IPO
NEW YORK -- The Nasdaq OMX Group will pay $10 million for botching Facebook's initial public offering last year, a debacle that shook investors' confidence in Wall Street. Nasdaq's penalty would be the biggest ever paid by an exchange, said the U.S....
Tags: Financing and Stock Offerings, Media Industry, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, NASDAQ, Stock Market
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‘Candy Crush Saga’ gives addicted mobile-game players a sugar rush
Hero Complex - movies, comics, pop culture - Los Angeles TimesI slide three shiny red jelly beans together. Trumpet blast. I put three lemon drops in a line. A xylophone […]... -
California Senate approves protections for minors on Internet
Despite opposition from Internet firms including Facebook and Google, the California Senate on Thursday approved legislation that would require social networking sites to remove identifying information about teens and younger children from their pages...
Tags: Fines, Computer Networking and Internet, Interior Policy, Media Industry, Politics
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California state Senate OKs social network, drug bills
SACRAMENTO — Social network sites such as Facebook would be required to remove personal information about minors when asked to do so by their parents under a measure approved by state senators Thursday. Separately, the lawmakers voted to allow...
Tags: Misdemeanors, Interior Policy, Justice System, Personal Data Collection, Lou Correa
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Mark Zuckerberg's foray into politics is delayed by leaked memo
SAN FRANCISCO -- In Silicon Valley, start-ups launch in beta all the time and work out the kinks as they go. Apparently that approach doesn't work as well in Washington. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's new political advocacy start-up hasn't even...
Tags: Environmental Issues, Conservation, Bill Gates, Lobbying, Reid Hoffman
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Nick D'Aloisio, 17, suddenly rich, famous after Yahoo buys Summly
SAN FRANCISCO -- Meet Nick D'Aloisio, the 17-year-old British entrepreneur sensation who just sold his popular news-reading app to Yahoo Inc. for close to $30 million, instantly becoming one of the world's youngest self-made technology millionaires. It'...
Tags: Media Industry, Stephen Fry, Ashton Kutcher, Yahoo! Inc., Telecommunication Service
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Snoop Dogg was gangsta; Snoop Lion is Rasta
Snoop Dogg had come to Burbank to let loose the lion. Engulfed by a haze of marijuana smoke thick as London fog in a hotel suite high above the so-called Media Capital of the World, the gangsta rap superstar surrendered himself to a hairdresser's...
Tags: Film Festivals, Diplo, Conan (tv program), Reddit Inc., Snoop Dogg
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