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Zynga cofounder Mark Pincus has rejoined the struggling online social gaming company as CEO less than two years after stepping down from that very position and nearly one year after withdrawing from the company's day - to - day operations.

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Shares in social gaming company Zynga continue to sink Thursday after the company announced late Wednesday that cofounder Mark Pincus is rejoining the company as CEO.

The social gaming company based in San Francisco, known for its popular games like FarmVille and Mafia Wars, will file for its IPO with the SEC as early as this week, or next week at the latest.

So it comes as no surprise that soon after graduating from Dartmouth, Benartzi, 35, co-founded a social gaming company for smartphones, called Mytopia.

Developers, in turn, created apps that became emblematic of the Facebook experience — apps such as Farmville, a farming simulation game played with friends on the social network, which was made by the gaming company Zynga.

Stay wired for more unlikely Smash speculation pieces as more companies either play into social media marketing or make a sincere plea to see their creations in gaming's finest fighting arena.

As of Monday most of the industry's leading gaming companies made a point to mourn the victims either onstage at the gaming confab in Los Angeles, California, or on social media, pledging support to those forever traumatized by the shocking act — and in a few cases, to the LGBT community rocked by the homophobic terrorist attack.

It'll probably be more focused on maintaining the social media fervor that surrounds massive gaming press events like E3, as well as supporting bigger companies that use the service to announce their products.

That GTA: GD would make sense as a costume pack, I think once more games successfully implements the idea, it will become common place, and piggybacking on that GTA: GD idea, there could also packs for vehicle, real estate and radio customization, with such a level of immersion, where a player could find an unlimited choice of cars, picking a beat - up black 96 porsche carrerra with zebra paint, buying / renting a liberty city cocaine kingpin hideout on the oceanfront while listening to Daft Punk latest remix compilation... it's not only possible but I think probable that in the future as games include more social elements they will include those elements as they would provide greater immersion for players, greater revenues for gaming company, and marketing inroads for brands and designers.

Other gaming luminaries attending include Kevin McSherry (UK), Head of Studio, and Daniel Neil (UK), music director, at music game maker FreeStyleGames (DJ Hero); Jeroen Ellferich (NL), CEO of Ex Machina - Social Gaming Technology; as well as Marten Brüggemann (SWE), game director at young development studio Pieces Interactive; and Alex Amsel (UK), CEO of innovative production company Tuna Technolgaming luminaries attending include Kevin McSherry (UK), Head of Studio, and Daniel Neil (UK), music director, at music game maker FreeStyleGames (DJ Hero); Jeroen Ellferich (NL), CEO of Ex Machina - Social Gaming Technology; as well as Marten Brüggemann (SWE), game director at young development studio Pieces Interactive; and Alex Amsel (UK), CEO of innovative production company Tuna TechnolGaming Technology; as well as Marten Brüggemann (SWE), game director at young development studio Pieces Interactive; and Alex Amsel (UK), CEO of innovative production company Tuna Technologies.

The rise of independent development has taken place almost completely outside its halls, as has the ascent of giant social gaming companies.»

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Bitcoin originally surfaced on my radar in 2011 when one of my portfolio companies, a social gaming company in Singapore, looked into Bitcoin as a potential payment source.