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FarmVille players who reach level 20 in the social game will now be tasked with working the land in rural England, Zynga said today. Once they have access to the English Countryside, players will head there with a duke concerned that the farms on his land “have fallen into disrepair.” Players get new land in [...]

An illustration photo of people playing online games at an internet cafe. Social network game developer Zynga has unveiled “CityVille,” the first globally released online game built by the hot startup behind play hits “FarmVille” and “Mafia Wars.” Social network game developer Zynga has unveiled “CityVille,” the first globally released online game built by the [...]

FarmVille is now available to iPad customers, Zynga announced today. Would-be farmers can get their hands on FarmVille by downloading it for free from Apple’s App Store. Those who have been playing the game elsewhere can now continue to seed the fields and run tractors over their farms on Apple’s tablet. Users who are new [...]

Yahoo once again has pride in its company, said CEO Carol Bartz Wednesday, just after outlining the dozens of ways in which the company needs to improve. Investors and their Wall Street representatives are gathered in Sunnyvale, Calif., Wednesday for an investor day that was closed to the press, but available via Webcast. Yahoo’s stock [...]

(AP) — Quelling rumors of a breakup, Facebook and the company behind many of the most popular games on the social network say they’ve signed a five-year partnership that will keep “Farmville,” “Mafia Wars” and “Cafe World” on the site. ©2010 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten [...]

Earlier this week I wrote a post about how I didn’t like that I couldn’t alter the Facebook Connect privacy settings for updates from Foursquare, an iPhone app that shares my location through a GPS-enabled city directory. It didn’t make sense to me that Facebook Connect information was automatically visible to anyone who had access [...]