...Zynga una empresa que desarrolla videojuegos sociales en línea, basándose en los sistemas de Web 2.0 y los presenta como aplicaciones widget en redes sociales como Facebook o MySpace. Con más de 240 millones de usuarios activos mensuales en sus juegos CityVille, FarmVille, Zynga Poker, etc; es considerado líder mundial y una de las almas de Facebook. Zynga lanzó su Oferta Pública Inicial el 16 de diciembre de 2011, con sus títulos a 11 dólares, (el precio anunciado a principios de diciembre fue de entre 8.5 y 10 dólares), pero las acciones se devaluaron en su primer día de su salida a la bolsa. Meses antes, se había especulado que en el lanzamiento de su OPI la compañía conseguiría una valoración de hasta 14.000 millones de dólares, pero luego ésta bajó a 10.000 millones de dólares, y finalmente al salir sus acciones al mercado, la valoración de la compañía fue de 7.500 millones de dólares. En su primer día de lanzamiento el precio cayó casi un 15 % por debajo del precio inicial, y casi un mes después, el precio seguía bajando, con un piso de 8 dólares, es decir la acción acumulaba un 27% de rendimiento negativo, como se puede ver en el siguiente gráfico que muestra los precios entre el 15 de diciembre de 2011 y el 15 de enero de 2012: Todo indica que inicialmente hubo una sobrevaloración de los títulos, pues la volatilidad de la economía, sumado a la poca confianza de los inversores en la compañía, hicieron bajar su cotización inicial. Sin embargo la compañía...
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...CHAPTER I The problem and Its Background Introduction There are many students and even some young professionals that are addicted to DotA. This is one of the computer games that can be played by many players and is one of the most popular games to young students. Many students get addicted to this game and they even spend long hours inside the computer shop just to play the game. There are studies that getting addicted in playing computer games affects their studies and this is the cause why they are lying to their parents that they need extra money for their school project but the truth is they are just using the money to rent a computer where they can play DotA with their classmates. Sometimes, in order to make the game exciting, they have a deal to pay those who won the game, so it already becomes a form of gambling. When time spent on the computer playing DotA games or cruising the Internet reaches to the point when it harms a child’s or adult’s family and social relationships, or disrupts school or work life, that person may be caught in a cycle of addiction. Like other addictions, DotA game has replaced friends and family as the source of a person’s emotional life. Increasingly, to feel good, the addicted person spends more time playing video games or searching the Internet. Time away from the computer or game causes moodiness or withdrawal. When a person spends up to ten hours a day or more rearranging or sending files, playing games, surfing the...
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...Congratulations! FREE! You Now Own Resell And Giveaway Rights To This Report Greetings! By owning resell and giveaway rights, you may freely distribute this report to anyone you wish, resell it for any price and keep 100% of the profits, or use it as incentive to build your mailing list. The choice is yours. The only restriction is that you cannot modify this document in any way without permission from the author. Enjoy! Hot Tip: If you would like to learn how to make this report your 24/7 “Digital Sales Machine” then be sure to read the last page for full details. 1 Section I: Facebook Social Ads Exposed Facebook Social Ads work virally, but rather than being spread in a random fashion, they are placed on Facebook member pages, based on their profile data – which can make them a powerful sales aid for marketers – especially in this current decade, where mobile devices are now replacing personal computers at the rate of 4 – 1. However, like any data system spread via the net, there are rules, restrictions and random factors that can greatly inhibit or enhance their success. In this special report, we will explore the ins and outs of Facebook Social Ads. What this report is not… It is not a complete guide to Facebook Ad Creation. Instead, it focuses more on the nuances you will not pick up from Facebook’s easy “Advertising Creation” walk-through… and important drawbacks to watch out for. How Facebook Social Ads Work Marion loves horseback riding, and publicly...
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...purchase homes, racking up college debt and opening bank accounts. In an attempt to draw customers JP Morgan chase is said to be giving away a 1 million dollar prize and Amazon 1000 dollar gift card for those who take out the time to go to their company page on Facebook and press a simple like button. By liking a company’s page you will now see any post they make. This is good if they have new promotional offers and it is also free marketing. Chase also has a Living Social credit card that allows buyers to earn extra rewards while shopping on Living social. American express and Zynga now have a Farmville prepaid credit card. Farmville is an online game on Facebook with over a hundred thousand of users playing a day. The card allows you to gain Farmville game credits on your purchases. In competition discover is giving $100 in “Farm Cash” for those who sign up for its cards thru Farmville. With Citibank you can now share accrued points. They had a commercial where people from a particular town collectively put their points together and hosted an Olympic viewing party and take a trip to...
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...The most impactful disaster that has happened in North Carolina to me would be the Coal Glen Mine Explosion. The Carolina Coal Company was formed with the intention of developing a mine near Farmville across the river from the Egypt Mine. The mining town that would arise was to be called Coal Glen. The Carolina Mine is often called the Coal Glen Mine, or the Farmville Mine.The Carolina Mine was the most ambitious mining operation ever begun on the Deep River Coal Bed. In 1923, its first year of full-scale operation, its output more than doubled the best of the Old Egypt Mine. Once again the future looked bright for a mine on the Deep River- Coal Bed. But the profits never came.At seven in the morning on May 25, the morning shift, numbering seventy-four miners, descended into the dark of the Carolina Mine. Two and a half hours later the first of three terrific explosions tore...
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...to other genres such as casino games and “player versus player” conflict games, Pincus said. Zynga underperformed due to two factors, Pincus said. First, the company didn’t execute well on web games such as CityVille and CastleVille. The company found it “more challenging” to maintain its historical games and it had a “faster decline in bookings than expected.” Or to put it simply, “We didn’t create enough heat for players” in content and features, Pincus said. Also the company didn’t bring new games to market fast enough to offset the declines from the older games. Secondly, mobile adoption was faster than Zynga expected. That increased competition for Zynga’s users. Still Pincus pointed to successes in its web games FarmVille 2 and ChefVille. FarmVille 2 had 17 million installs in its first 21 days. On the key mobile sector, Pincus said mobile now represents 20% of Zynga’s bookings. The company also reorganized its staff so that all teams have web and mobile developers working together. All new games will have mobile games as part of their release. Zynga is also rolling out its “With Friends” mobile gaming network, which includes its own and third party mobile games. Pincus believes Zynga can do the same type of cross-promotion on mobile games that it did on Facebook games. Pincus highlighted two new businesses:...
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...February 10, 2010 Ms. Amanda Walton Longwood University Dept. of EML 201 High St. Farmville, VA 23909 Dear Ms. Walton Virginia allows houses to be sold through a dual agent or dual agency, where as it is illegal in certain states. Dual agency is a situation where a real estate agent or agency represents both the buyer and the seller of a home. Dual agents or agencies create a great conflict of interest and should be made illegal in the state of Virginia to ensure that people who depend on real estate agencies to buy or sell homes get a fair price and that their agency does its due diligence to do get that fair price. When you go to sell your home would you want to have some worries in the back of your mind about if you got low balled by your real estate agent? Or when you buy a home is the agent trying to make you pay a higher price then you really have to? This is a worry most Americans have when selling or buying a home, but this problem is only intensified by the dual agency situation. The definition of a dual agent, according to homebuying.about.com, is “A real estate agent who has signed a buyer agency agreement with a buyer who wishes to purchase a listing held by the agent or the agent’s firm. A dual agent must be loyal to both the buyer and the seller.” The part where the agent must be loyal to both customers is where the problem arises. There is a huge conflict of interest as the agent has a responsibility to the seller to get the highest price...
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...Brown v. Board of Education Ronald Still Embry Riddle Aeronautical University Brown v. Board of Education Background The Supreme Court case of Brown v. Board of Education dates back to 1954, the case was centered on the Fourteenth Amendment and challenged the segregation of schools solely on the basis of race. The Brown case was not the only case of its time involving school segregation, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was leading the push to desegregate public schools in the United States (Gold, 2005). Brown v. Board of Education was a consolidation of four cases that had made their way through the court system. It was 1950 and Linda brown was just seven years old, she lived in Topeka, Kansas and was African American descent (she was black). Each mourning Linda traveled 21 blocks and crossed through a dangerous railroad yard to get to school. Her journey to school took an hour and twenty minutes. White children who lived in the same neighborhood only traveled 7 blocks in a considerably less amount of time (Gold, 2005). Linda’s father Oliver filed a lawsuit against the Topeka Board of Education arguing that he wanted the same conditions for his daughter (Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 2009). The case was heard by three judges in Federal District Court, and they ruled against the plaintiffs, the case went to Circuit Court of Appeals and then to the U.S Supreme Court (Topeka, Kansas: Segregation in the Heartland). ...
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...Jaqui Marec Eng 180 Dr. Barclay February 10, 2014 Can Video Games Really be Beneficial to American Society? In the article, “Just One More….: Angry Birds, Farmville, and Other Hyperaddictive Stupid Games”, the author Sam Anderson portrays how he feels about popular games throughout society. By providing numerous examples throughout the article, Anderson shows readers that there are deeper meanings behind the so-called video games we play that in turn interact with our psychological states of mind. He begins with the Game Boy that was created in Japan in 1989. He describes to the audience how the unit was made up and then describes the first game that was made for the unit, Tetris. Finally, he adds the purpose of the game and explains to readers why this game was considered addictive to anyone who played it. This in turn leads to the main purpose of the article, which was to convince readers that video games in fact can affect our psychological states of mind positively and even solve some of our real world problems. Anderson begins the article by talking about game-study scholars pointing out that games tend to reflect the era that they were created in. For example, he says that Monopoly was made in the 1930’s which was reflective of the great depression. Another example would be Twister created in the mid- 1960’s which was reflective of the “sexual revolution”. So how does Tetris pertain to this chain of game productions? Well, according to Anderson, Tetris was invented...
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...CHAPTER 1 THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND This chapter provides an understanding of what the problem is and its context scope of the study as well as its significant. Introduction "The most profound technologies are those that disappear. They weave themselves into the fabric of everyday life until they are indistinguishable from it". (Weiser, 1991). Social networking is a phenomenon which has existed since society began. Human beings have always sought to live in social environment. The social networks as Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and others are all “virtual places” where people find themselves and share information. Nowadays, social networks are the best tools for communication, though in the first place they were used only for university purposes, where students and colleagues stayed in contact with each other after works or studies. What currently has become the subject of many debates are the various effects that these social networks have on human life, effects such as social impact, health issues and business affair. Some studies imply that social networks could have negative impact on people social health. These can cause people to stray from reality and immerse themselves in the virtual world of social community. “Instead of meeting people in person, they spend more time in front of the computer screens checking what the virtual friends are doing.” A social networking phenomenon has emerged over the past five years. In that time, social networking sites...
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...How do Social sites earn money? Facebook & Youtube Assignment in Electronic Commerce Presented to Prof. Marlon B. Raquel, Course Instructor The Fisher Valley College In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for Electronic Commerce Course By Bauza, Angie Judes Christy, Chim Ignacio, rjay Inigo, Laleane Nuela Jayson THE FISHER VALLEY COLLEGE TAGUIG CITY January 12, 2015 What is Facebook? Facebook (formerly [thefacebook]) is an online social networking service headquartered in Menlo Park, California. Its website was launched on February 4, 2004, by Mark Zuckerberg with his college roommates and fellow Harvard University students Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes.[7] The founders had initially limited the website's membership to Harvard students, but later expanded it to colleges in the Boston area, theIvy League, and Stanford University. It gradually added support for students at various other universities and later to high-school students. Facebook now allows anyone who claims to be at least 13 years old to become a registered user of the website. How does Facebook make money? On Friday Facebook went public, with a value of £66billion. Since then shares have crashed and investigations and law suits launched as people try and work out what it’s really worth – so the question is: If the networking site is free to join and use, how exactly does it make money? Facebook’s figures are quite astonishing. The site’s initial public offering...
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...Unit 4: Project Keys Fan Piano University HU 300 – Art and Humanities August 4, 1999 Happiness and liberty were clearly a motivating force during the fight against desegregation in the 1950s. The student leaders in African American community began to take the stage under the spotlight by emerging with immense power and energy. Barbara Rose Johns possessed an important quality to being a successful leader and that quality, understands leadership is a communal effort not singular. Barbara displays this understanding when she led the student strike at Robert R. Morton High School in Farmville, Virginia. At only 16 she stood before the faculty and student body in a staged assembly and demanded the teachers leave the auditorium as she wanted to address students only. Leading the strike against her school was out of character for Barbara, who is described as “quiet and studious,” she was inspired by the likes of notable African American leader Booker T. Washington and Richard Wright, and she read books written by both men. The students who lead the strike at Morton High School had to embrace the racism that kept their school in horrible conditions, as they embraced the challenge to change the conditions; they also embraced rebellion, adversity, and independence. Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka was the most influential case in history of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) that led to the end of segregated schools and the strike at...
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...Facebook is one of the largest social networking websites on the planet. As one of the largest social networking websites on the planet, one would think that Facebook charges at least a nominal fee for membership however, it offers all of its members totally free access. So, how can Facebook afford to offer free membership to literally hundreds-of-thousands of members world wide? Advertising is the number one source of Facebook’s income. Specifically, user targeted advertising. “Facebook being a decidedly smart social networking institution knows which ad to put where” (Kulharni, 2010). Facebook uses your information to send ads your way. They do not send just any ads, but ads that you actually have an interest in. For example, you have “liked” or “become-a-fan-of” motorcycles, Facebook recognizes this as something you are interested in and places a small motorcycle related advertisement on the right side of your page. Of course, Facebook is collecting a fee from the companies that place advertising on the site. These companies are usually charged on a pay-per-click basis, meaning that Facebook charges the companies every time a member clicks on that company’s ad. “Facebook advertisements give advertisers a way to target people that are interested in what they have to offer” (Gerard, 2009). This type of advertising is extremely valuable to companies because the companies know that their advertisements are being seen by consumers that have an interest in what is being...
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...phones they can text and call for along time and others spend there time on there computer using Facebook or twitter etcetera spending a lot of time is dangerous in many ways first off you Facebook has had a significant impact on social networking and has changed the way people socialize with one another. There is enough material on Facebook to keep you engaged all day long. You might love it but you are at a risk, at the cost of your privacy. You may not be aware of the dangers you face making so much personal information available, but that isn't all that is bad about Facebook. With tons of applications available out there, Facebook is one of the most addictive sites on the Internet. People get hooked on applications and games like Farmville, Mafia Wars, etc. Many schools report that the average grade of students has gone down and the main cause is social networking sites. People may end up losing jobs if they are caught socializing during work hours, when instead they should have been working. I don’t use it much there are many more things I can say but it would take me a while most kids in the old days didn’t have computers they use to play tag or hide and seek or color or something but now not all of us do this honestly kids aren’t really supposed to go on the internet for a few reasons but there are more viruses, spyware, popups, scams, spam, hoaxes the should have a book in there hand not a mouse but technology is helpful too Technology saves lives Technology saves lives...
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...Life in Mexico Hello everyone, my name is Jose Rodriguez. I am 34 years old now. I came from Durango, Mexico, which located in the northern part of the country. I was a high school math teacher in Mexico, and had a very nice family with my wife, two sons and one daughter. These years, the unstable security issues and the growing drug related crime around my city made me worried a lot. I tried to move my whole families to another city; however, I just cannot afford it. Unfortunately, the bad things finally happed. Last year, the local drug dealers took my older son away and forced him to do the drug production. I reported this to the local police, but the drug dealers had a better relation with the policeman than I did. One week later, they send my son back home, but he was dying. After four hours emergency operation, my son’s life was saved, however, he was diagnosed with uremia, which surely caused by the physical contractions between the toxic drug chemicals and my son’s body, according to the doctor. The medical payment for my son is extremely high, so, I have to find some other way to make more money. Normally, people like me in Mexico have two ways to make more money. One is the easier way by dealing with drug; another is the harder way by crossing the US boarder to chasing dream in America. I hate drugs, so, there would be only one option for me. Trip to US Making a decision is hard, especially for this kind. But, like I said, I don’t have any choices. I have to go...
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