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SEC Filing Reveals Details of Zynga's Relationship With Facebook

Posted by Unknown on from the slash-wars-ville dept.

bizwriter writes with an article in bnet. From the article "An amended S-1 filing for Zynga's eventual IPO offers details of its relationship to Facebook. There's plenty of interesting stuff there in the open, but some partially redacted sections hint at why Zynga is so dependent on Facebook as a channel to get to its market — and why Facebook doesn't deploy its own games." It appears that Zynga is allowed to get away with quite a bit thanks to all of the ad revenue they bring in for Facebook. Who has the upper hand in this relationship?

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  1. Facebook and Zynga? by MathiasRav · · Score: 4, Funny

    In a relationship and it's complicated.

  2. Zygna and Facebook by girlintraining · · Score: 4, Funny

    This just in:

    Zuckerberg is the bitch in the relationship.

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    1. Re:Zygna and Facebook by anyGould · · Score: 4, Insightful

      This just in:

      Zuckerberg is the bitch in the relationship.

      For now.

      But Zynga is in control only so long as Facebook needs that revenue. The moment they don't, Zynga will find itself on the wrong end of a TOS change.

  3. Re:What's Zynga? by h4rr4r · · Score: 2

    Says who?
    I don't use it and I know plenty about computers. If you are my friend or family you can call me, contact me via skype or one of many chat protocols and email. If you are a customer you have my email and business phone number.

  4. Re:No Farmville on Google+ by Nidi62 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    So Zynga can't put Farmville on Google+.

    No Farmville on Google+? If there's a better advertisement/reason than this to switch from Facebook to Google+, I don't know what it is

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  5. Re:No Farmville on Google+ by Internal+Modem · · Score: 3, Funny

    +1

  6. Re:What's Zynga? by EdIII · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Tough words coming from a pasty lardass who can only leave his parent's basement through the help of a forklift.

    That's just silly. How is a forklift supposed to fit through the door to the basement and navigate the stairs?

  7. Curious IPO... by sloth+jr · · Score: 2

    ... I'm not sure I recall an IPO where the business was so heavily dependent on a private company. Would you invest in Zynga?