Zynga's weak pivot to mobile, loss of casual gamers turns serious

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• Zynga's weak pivot to mobile, loss of casual gamers turns serious
• Strengthening Family Ties Through Facebook
• Honda recalls 2002-2006 CR-V for fire risk
• How We Followed Elections in the 1800s [COMIC]
• Strengthening Family Ties Through Facebook
• This Startup Wants to Give You a 40% Cut of Sales You Make on Facebook
• RainRoom Lets You Experience Rainfall While Staying Dry [VIDEO]
• Ellie Goulding to Hold Digital Album Signing in Google+ Hangout
• Chrysler recalls trucks because of axle nut issue
• Facebook World Map Reveals Unexpected Trends Between Friends [VIDEO]
• Why Is It So Hard to Buy an Electric Vehicle?
• Top 10 Most Popular Celebs on Facebook [CHART]
• MindMeld Will Change The Way You Look at Digital Assistants [VIDEO]
• 24 Touching Photos That Make Instagram Great
• 6 Apps You Don't Want to Miss
• 'Dance Showdown' Is 'Dancing With the Stars' But for YouTube Acts
• How to Watch Saturday's O'Reilly vs. Stewart Debate
• Rural outsourcer brings hope to remote village
• Foxconn denies worker unrest slows iPhone assembly
• 15 Twitter Accounts Every Space Lover Should Follow
• How to Create a Killer Personal Branding Campaign
• Hearrts! These CPR Zombies Will Make You Undead [VIDEO]
• Chat Her Maybe? Carly Rae Jepsen Joins Facebook Chat Today
• Like-A-Hug Vest Inflates When You Get a Facebook Like
• Top Comments of the Week on Mashable
• Zynga's weak pivot to mobile, loss of casual gamers turns serious
• MIT researchers create computerized jacket that ‘hugs’ you after Facebook ‘likes’
• Google Fiber Gives High-Speed Boost to Midwest Startups [VIDEO]

Zynga's weak pivot to mobile, loss of casual gamers turns serious Posted: 05 Oct 2012 10:20 PM PDT SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Zynga Inc's inexorable decline over the past six months, capped by a sharp reduction in its 2012 outlook on Thursday, has sharpened interest in what Chief Executive Mark Pincus will do next. Wall Street's excitement over a game publisher once counted among the stars of the new social Internet has cooled since its December initial public offering. On Friday, analysts slashed their price targets on a stock that dived as much as 22 percent, to $2.21 - more than three-quarters off its $10 debut. ...

Strengthening Family Ties Through Facebook Posted: 06 Oct 2012 04:33 PM PDT Some days kids just don't want to head off to school in the morning. Such was the case one day with Beth Blecherman's 13-year-old son. He wished he were somewhere else, and she knew that.

Honda recalls 2002-2006 CR-V for fire risk Posted: 06 Oct 2012 08:54 PM PDT Honda Motor Co. is recalling CR-V crossovers from the 2002 to 2006 model years because an electrical switch in the driver's side door could melt and cause a fire.

How We Followed Elections in the 1800s [COMIC] Posted: 06 Oct 2012 05:00 PM PDT In the pre-technology days of the Wild West, voters had to use their nose to follow their party's candidate.

Strengthening Family Ties Through Facebook Posted: 06 Oct 2012 04:33 PM PDT Some days kids just don't want to head off to school in the morning. Such was the case one day with Beth Blecherman's 13-year-old son. He wished he were somewhere else, and she knew that.

This Startup Wants to Give You a 40% Cut of Sales You Make on Facebook Posted: 06 Oct 2012 04:03 PM PDT [More from Mashable: Chat Her Maybe? Carly Rae Jepsen Joins Facebook Chat]

RainRoom Lets You Experience Rainfall While Staying Dry [VIDEO] Posted: 06 Oct 2012 03:28 PM PDT Want to experience rain without the inconvenience of getting wet?

Ellie Goulding to Hold Digital Album Signing in Google+ Hangout Posted: 06 Oct 2012 02:57 PM PDT British singer Ellie Goulding, who performed at Prince William and Kate Middleton's royal wedding reception, will conduct what's being dubbed the world's "first digital album signing" in a Google+ Hangout Monday.

Chrysler recalls trucks because of axle nut issue Posted: 06 Oct 2012 01:55 PM PDT Chrysler is recalling thousands of Ram 1500 and Dodge Dakota trucks from the 2009 and 2010 model years because of a problem with a rear axle pinion nut that could cause the driver to lose control of the vehicle.

Facebook World Map Reveals Unexpected Trends Between Friends [VIDEO] Posted: 06 Oct 2012 01:32 PM PDT Social networks and mobile technology have transformed the way people communicate. This week, Facebook announced there are 1 billion active users, who have created 140.3 billion Facebook connections on the eight-year-old platform.

Why Is It So Hard to Buy an Electric Vehicle? Posted: 06 Oct 2012 01:22 PM PDT Test-driving the 2012 Toyota RAV4 EV through the winding roads of Napa Valley, I couldn't shake the sense that I was being set up for heartbreak.

Top 10 Most Popular Celebs on Facebook [CHART] Posted: 06 Oct 2012 12:28 PM PDT Rihanna has knocked Eminem off the top spot as most-liked celeb on Facebook.

MindMeld Will Change The Way You Look at Digital Assistants [VIDEO] Posted: 06 Oct 2012 11:01 AM PDT What if while you were discussing where to have dinner with a group of friends, your iPad instantly pulled up menus for the restaurants you were talking about? Or, when talking to a friend about what to do on your upcoming vacation, photos and websites for some of your friend's suggestions showed up on your screen?

24 Touching Photos That Make Instagram Great Posted: 06 Oct 2012 10:29 AM PDT The Best Word in the English Language

6 Apps You Don't Want to Miss Posted: 06 Oct 2012 10:07 AM PDT Taplister

'Dance Showdown' Is 'Dancing With the Stars' But for YouTube Acts Posted: 06 Oct 2012 09:46 AM PDT The season two premiere of Dance Showdown, a web series that pits popular YouTube acts against each other in a rhythmic showdown for $100,000, boogied its way online Friday.

How to Watch Saturday's O'Reilly vs. Stewart Debate Posted: 06 Oct 2012 09:17 AM PDT The presidential candidates aren't the only ones debating lately -- now John Stewart and Bill O'Reilly are getting into the act, facing off Saturday night in a live 90-minute debate branded as "...an entertaining and comedic approach to today's pressing political issues."

Rural outsourcer brings hope to remote village Posted: 06 Oct 2012 08:03 AM PDT They come together each morning from the sloping forests. Some walk for more than an hour along muddy footpaths past terraced farms stacked like soft green steps. Some race their new motorbikes down narrow, cracked roads cut into the hillsides.

Foxconn denies worker unrest slows iPhone assembly Posted: 06 Oct 2012 08:00 AM PDT Foxconn Technology Group denied on Saturday that production was affected at a Chinese factory that makes Apple's iPhones, although both state media and an overseas labor watch group said some workers halted production lines on Friday, apparently over higher quality control standards.

15 Twitter Accounts Every Space Lover Should Follow Posted: 06 Oct 2012 07:55 AM PDT Sunita Williams

How to Create a Killer Personal Branding Campaign Posted: 06 Oct 2012 06:19 AM PDT Sudy Bharadwaj is a co-founder and the CEO of Jackalope Jobs, a web-based platform that combines search, social networking, and the overall user's experience to provide relevant job openings. Learn how Sudy and Jackalope Jobs obsess over job seekers by connecting with them on LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter.

Hearrts! These CPR Zombies Will Make You Undead [VIDEO] Posted: 06 Oct 2012 06:08 AM PDT [More from Mashable: The Insanely Great Chart of Apple's History]

Chat Her Maybe? Carly Rae Jepsen Joins Facebook Chat Today Posted: 06 Oct 2012 05:42 AM PDT Canadian pop star Carly Rae Jepsen and her management previously told Mashable they're crazy in "love" with the countless "Call Me Maybe" parodies, but on Saturday during a Facebook Live chat, she will reveal her overall reaction to the song's covers, parodies and remixes.

Like-A-Hug Vest Inflates When You Get a Facebook Like Posted: 06 Oct 2012 04:28 AM PDT There's nothing like a bear hug from a loved one at the end of a long day. But if you live far away from your family, you now have a man-made alternative. Scientists at MIT have created a vest that inflates when your Facebook friends "Like" your posts, mimicking the sensation of a hug.

Top Comments of the Week on Mashable Posted: 06 Oct 2012 04:04 AM PDT The Facebook Commercial Is All Kinds of Wrong

Zynga's weak pivot to mobile, loss of casual gamers turns serious Posted: 05 Oct 2012 10:20 PM PDT SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Zynga Inc's inexorable decline over the past six months, capped by a sharp reduction in its 2012 outlook on Thursday, has sharpened interest in what Chief Executive Mark Pincus will do next. Wall Street's excitement over a game publisher once counted among the stars of the new social Internet has cooled since its December initial public offering. On Friday, analysts slashed their price targets on a stock that dived as much as 22 percent, to $2.21 - more than three-quarters off its $10 debut. ...

MIT researchers create computerized jacket that ‘hugs’ you after Facebook ‘likes’ Posted: 05 Oct 2012 08:59 PM PDT The engineering minds at MIT have concocted a new invention that will bring warm feelings to lonely Internet nerds. The Atlantic has discovered a new computerized jacket called Like-a-Hug developed by researchers at MIT and designed to replicate a hugging sensation by gently inflating whenever someone "likes" something you've posted on Facebook (FB). Like-a-Hug engineer Melissa Chow describes the jacket as a "wearable social media vest" whose goal is "bringing us closer despite physical distance." Hopefully no one will give this jacket to Star Trek and Facebook legend George Takei as a gift since it would suffocate him within 20 minutes. Read

Google Fiber Gives High-Speed Boost to Midwest Startups [VIDEO] Posted: 05 Oct 2012 05:05 PM PDT One year ago, Google ventured to the midwest with plans to put small startups and businesses on the map. Google enabled Kansas City, Mo. with their fiber-optic network and then waited -- and it seems Google's concept has paid off.

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