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[DS Notes] Zynga’s New Game: Laid Off With Friends

Reuters, Bloomberg, (and just about everyone else) reported that Zynga has laid off 520 of its nearly 2900 employees and shut down offices in New York, Los Angeles, and Dallas in an attempt to reduce costs. Last year the game company shut down offices in Boston and Austin after its games failed to met expectations. Its acquisition of OMGPop over a year ago which followed the short-lived success of Draw Something didn’t turn out to be the kick the company needed. CEO Mark Pincus says Zynga is refocusing on mobile but from the looks of it, the prospect isn’t good unless they can come up with more successful games.

[DS Notes] Market Share Alone is Never a Good Indicator of Business

John Kirk explains on TechPinions why the church of market share is a deeply flawed argument. Yes, more market share means the product is more visible, it means there are more consumers of said product but unless it’s viewed in relation to revenue and profits, it’s never going to make sense (or cents). Business wise, it’s necessary for companies to look at the health and efficiency of a business in terms of how much return it earns per output. If a group of companies only earn a small fraction of the profit generated by the entire industry, dwarfed by the profit of just one other company within that industry, they need to conduct a serious evaluation of their strategies.

[DS Notes] Bloomberg Says Google is Also Bidding for Waze

Real-time crowd sourced traffic map Waze is looking at an acquisition bid from Google following a report that Facebook is making an offer to the Israeli startup recently. While Google already has traffic report and even public transportation data on Google Maps, Waze’s method is preferable to 40 million of its users. With bids from Facebook and Google, the company is likely to pull this situation into a bidding war in addition to considering further venture funding instead to expand its services should the bids prove to be unfavorable. Waze’s map service is free for users but the company makes money from selling advertising within its maps.

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Ibrii: Virtual Notepad For Save and Share Favorit Web Content

ibriiBayangkan anda mempunyai notes atau catatan virtual yang bisa di atur dan di edit sehingga anda tidak kehilangan data lagi, dan jika itu belum cukup, bayangkan anda mempunyai catatan semua hal yang menarik anda dari internet dan anda bisa menyimpannya di cloud, mengeditnya dengan kemampuan yang hampir sama yang dimiliki Office lalu men-share-nya dengan realasi anda. Tertarik ?

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