Suckerberged as FB collapses?
Much has been said about the Facebook IPO. “This time is different, you don’t understand the future” and other stupid arguments.
As reality bites, we have to review what the Oracle said prior to the Facebook frenzy.
If you missed it, the must see Facebook IPO video from last year, and yes, we expect the stock to reach 10 handles sooner than later.
Courtesy Omid Malekan
Facebook IPO was alwys Fraud FACEBOOK is operating off of stolen property. Patent 761 is Mike Mckibben’s of Leader Technologies. The Zuckster hacked into his sons ‘s computer and stole the white papers and patent.He’s a thief and continues to show his true colors. http://www.donnaklinenow.com/investigation
WAR! Zynga Sues The Hell Out Of Brazilian Clone Vostu: Zynga’s mission is connecting the world through games : A stolen idea saying this is what zuckerberg used to say connecting the world ;that was stolen from a email
facebook used a bulldog as their logo in The early days?? Zynga was named after an American bulldog named Zinga once owned by Mark Pincus.[12][13] They use an image of a bulldog as their logo. The early supporting founding team included Eric Schiermeyer, Michael Luxton, Justin Waldron, Kyle Stewart, Scott Dale, Steve Schoettler, and Andrew Trader
Zynga has been accused several times of copying game concepts of popular games by competing developers.Zynga intentionally worked with scam advertisers
History Mark Pincus founded Zynga in April 2007 under the name Presidio Media; the company name changed to Zynga in July 2007.[1] I
Vostu was started by Daniel Kafie, Mario Schlosser and Joshua Kushner while they were students at Harvard University. As of February 2010, Vostu is a private company with offices in São Paulo, Buenos Aires, and New York
Other criticism
In March 2009, CEO Mark Pincus admitted that Zynga had been running gambling affiliate ads in their Facebook games for a year.[97]
In late May 2010, the Norwegian Consumer Council filed a complaint to the Data Inspectorate regarding breaches of the Data Protection Act.[98]
In August 2010, the San Francisco city attorney’s office complained about the firm’s guerrilla marketing campaign for its Mafia Wars game that pasted fake money on city sidewalks, calling it “vandalism”.[99]
can’t figure out why anyone would play games on Facebook. Not only are they scams, but most of the games (ie: Farmville, Mobsters) are just Zynga rip-offs of other : Vostu is not a rip-off of Zynga
Zynga has been accused several times of copying game concepts of popular games by competing developers.[111][112]
The launch of Mafia Wars sparked a lawsuit from the makers of Mob Wars.[113] An attorney for Psycho Monkey, the creators of Mob Wars, said that in making Mafia Wars, Zynga “copied virtually every important aspect of the game.”[114] The suit was settled out of court for $7–9 million.[115]
The company had been criticized in the past for keeping up to 50% of the donations it collected
Orland, Kyle (2012-07-27). “Law firms investigating Zynga for insider stock sell-off”. Ars Technica. Condé Nast. http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2012/07/law-firms-investigating-zynga-for-insider-stock-sell-off/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+arstechnica%2Findex+%28Ars+Technica+-+All+content%29. Retrieved 27 July 2012.
^ Arrington, Michael (November 2, 2009). “Scamville: Zynga Says 1/3 of Revenue Comes from Lead Gen and Other Offers”. TechCrunch. http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/11/02/scamville-zynga-says-13-of-revenue-comes-from-lead-gen-and-other-offers/. Retrieved November 4, 2009.
^ Arrington, Michael (October 31, 2009). “Scamville: The Social Gaming Ecosystem of Hell”. TechCrunch. http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/10/31/scamville-the-social-gaming-ecosystem-of-hell/. Retrieved November 4, 2009.
^ Arrington, Michael (November 2, 2009). “Zynga Takes Steps to Remove Scams from Games”. TechCrunch. http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/11/02/zynga-takes-steps-to-remove-scams-from-games/. Retrieved November 4, 2009.
^ Arrington, Michael (November 6, 2009). “Zynga CEO Mark Pincus: “I Did Every Horrible Thing in the Book Just to Get Revenues”". TechCrunch. http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/11/06/zynga-scamville-mark-pinkus-faceboo/. Retrieved December 11, 2009.
^ Pincus, Mark (November 6, 2009). “To Zwink or Not?”. Mark Pincus Blog. http://markpincus.typepad.com/markpincus/2009/11/to-zwing-or-not.html. Retrieved December 11, 2009.
^ Arrington, Michael (November 8, 2009). “Zynga’s FishVille Sleeps With The Fishes For Ad Violations”. TechCrunch. http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/11/08/zyngas-fishville-swims-with-the-fishes-for-ad-violations/. Retrieved November 9, 2009.
^ Arrington, Michael (November 9, 2009). “Zynga’s Fishville Gets out of the Penalty Box at Midnight”. TechCrunch. http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/11/09/zyngas-fishville-gets-out-of-the-penalty-box-at-midnight/. Retrieved November 14, 2009.
^ Facebook facing legal action over unauthorised payments from The Telegraph
^ Gelles, David; Joseph Menn (November 25, 2009). “Facebook in Lawsuit over Unauthorised Charges”. Financial Times. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/058f5260-d92c-11de-b2d5-00144feabdc0.html. Retrieved December 10, 2009.