Zynga (Mafia Wars) does good and raises $1.5 million for Haiti via Facebook games
Despite admitting they used every dirty trick in the book (read my article here at http://bit.ly/60FUdB) Zynga, the no. 1 social gaming company on the web has raised $1.5 million dollars to help the relief effort in Haiti. How did they do it? By selling virtual social goods to more than 300,000 game players from 47 countries through their top games (Mafia Wars, farmville, Zynga Poker).
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Zynga (Mafia Wars) Controversial 3rd party spyware cookies putting your security at risk
Video from a very interesting article titled: Zynga CEO Mark Pincus: “I Did Every Horrible Thing In The Book Just To Get Revenues” http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/11/06/zynga-scamville-mark-pinkus-faceboo/
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