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"Words With Friends" Board Game Coming From The Makers Of Scrabble?

Hasbro and Zynga announced today that they have entered into a global partnership. With this license, Hasbro will be making a variety of toys and board games using Zynga's brands, with the first products expected to be released in the coming Fall.READ»

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Most Innovative Alumni

It was a year of IPOs, product launches, breakthroughs, and, yes, notable missteps for the class of 2011's Most Innovative Companies.READ»

How Words With Friends Beat Scrabble At Its Own Game

The creators of the social Scrabble-like smartphone and tablet game offer insight into their reinvention of board game night. READ»

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Which Startups Will Rule 2012?

Venture capitalists, corporations, private-equity firms, and more poured billions into private companies this year--a huge boon for titans like Facebook and Groupon. Here, the best of the rest starting 2012 with supersize bankrolls.READ»

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Twitter Makes TextSecure Open Source, AT&T Drops T-Mobile Purchase Bid, Zynga Value Continues To Slide

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Zynga's $1 Billion IPO, RIM Execs Take $1 Paycheck, Skype Cofounder Backs Free Wireless Venture

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Google+ And Kabam Bring Families Together For New "Godfather" Game

Can Google really put a hit on the Facebook mob? Perhaps so, with games. Google and Kabam hope to do just that with the exclusively-for-Google+ "The Godfather: Five Families." READ»

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Facebook Buys Gowalla, Zynga Targets $1 Billion IPO, Groupon Investigated For Ad Code Breach

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What Every Business Can Learn From Social Gaming

Wouldn’t it be great if you could gather real-time feedback from your customers and make real-time changes to your product, quickly pivoting based on their personal preferences? Thanks to interactive design and some super-charged technology, social gamers are doing just that. READ»

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The Riskiest In Business Are Tall, Male, Young, And (Astrologically) Fiery

To find out if science (and pseudo-science) can predict risk taking, we sort 26 top execs. The winner: Twitter co-founder Evan Williams.READ»

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Costolo: Twitter Has "More Money Than We'll Need For A Long Time," And 250 Million Tweets A Day

With plenty of cash on hand, Twitter CEO Dick Costolo doesn't feel the need to IPO anytime soon. But how does he plan to generate more ad revenue from the increasingly popular social media network? READ»

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Google Posts $9.72B In Revenue, CBS, Time Warner Sign Netflix Deal, Romney Attacks Obama Over Piracy

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Could Zynga Game On Without Facebook?

Can you build a long-term business on other people's platforms?READ»

Google+ Is Game Makers' Facebook Hedge

With the arrival of games to the Google+ network came a handful of game developers and a dozen or so games. With Google+ in its infancy, why did these big companies publish their games there? For the network's coming growth.READ»

Can Matt Damon Bring Clean Water To Africa?

The inside story of Matt Damon's bold yet sane plan to use his celebrity and smarts to help attack one of the globe's great crises.READ»

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"FarmVille" Maker Zynga Grows A $1B IPO In Facebook's Fertile Earth

Social-gaming powerhouse Zynga just filed its S-1 to raise up to $1 billion in IPO. It appears virtual farms and online cities have treated the San Francisco-startup well: Zynga pulled in $91 million in profit on sales of $597 million. READ»

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Zynga Files For IPO, U.K. Papers Ditch U.S. Editions, Facebook Winning, RIM Losing

Zynga just filed its Form S-1 stating its intent to IPO. This, and other bits of news from your Fast Company editors, with updates all day.READ»

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Buddhist Geeks: The Conference

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Zynga's New Game, Marines Embrace The iPad, Augmented Reality Translator App, And More...

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Zynga IPO, Zuckerberg On The Middle East And Regulation, MacBooks Earn Top Marks, And More...

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