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Enterprise May Be Sexy, But....

Enterprise May Be Sexy, But….

By Zoli Erdos on June 4, 2013

On the very same day Salesforce.com acquires Exact Target in their largest ever transaction valued at $2.5B, TechMeme’s top news is crazy gamers dropped by even crazier gamers…

Posted in Business | Tagged acquisitions, ActiveState, appsecute, Exact Target, m&a, Omgpop, salesforce.com, techmeme, zynga | 1 Response

Why Zynga was Right to Buy OMGPop and Words With Friends, And What it Means for SaaS

Why Zynga was Right to Buy OMGPop and Words With Friends, And What it Means for SaaS

By Jason M. Lemkin on October 10, 2012

Zynga just keeps getting hammered.  The latest was on preannouncing a big miss for Q3, and an almost complete write-off of its $183m acquisition of OMGPop, the guys behind briefly ultrapopular Draw Something.  Next up may well be a complete write-down of  the $200m+ for Words with Friends. The OMGPop acquisition was called “catastrophic“, for example, […]

Posted in Entrepreneurship | Tagged appstore, Omgpop, saas, SiliconBeat, software as a service, zynga

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