Investors Drive $ZNGA Up 26% In Two Days Following Facebook IPO Filing

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Those of us who have been following the social gaming industry already know that Zynga makes up a big portion of Facebook’s revenues. But lots of public investors only seem to have gotten the memo on Wednesday evening, when Facebook’s S-1 filing revealed that the developer accounts for 12% of its total revenues , or $445 million. In the two days since, Zynga’s stock has gone up more than 26%, to close at $13.39 this evening.

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How Windows Phone 8 ‘Apollo’ Would Stack Up Against iOS 5, Android 4

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Hands eagerly pawed all over Windows Phones at CES 2012. Photo: Jon Snyder/Wired.com Microsoft’s Windows Phone OS is often criticized for lagging far behind iOS and Android, the other major operating systems in the mobile space. But on Thursday, a leaked description of Microsoft’s next big mobile OS, Windows Phone 8, came to light, revealing how the operating system will improve.

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Skin Scan wants to fight cancer using iPhones and big data

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Skin Scan , a startup based in Bucharest, Romania, is selling an iPhone app that lets consumers take pictures of questionable moles and get back information on the likelihood that the mole in question is dangerous.

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Hitwise: Facebook.com Now Accounts For 1 In Every 5 Pageviews On The Web (In The U.S.)

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In case you happened to be the victim of a day-long coma yesterday, it was a very exciting day for Mark Zuckerberg , Silicon Valley, and that quaint little social network we’ve all come to know, love, and be terrified of. Facebook filed its S-1 on Thursday with the crystal clear intent to go public on a market near you very soon, and will be raising $5 billion ahead of its IPO at an expected valuation of between $75 and $100 billion.

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The Peek Bites The Dust

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You may remember the Peek , a device that showed up back in 2008 (so long ago, now!) offering nothing but email. That’s right, nothing but email in an age when smartphones were already becoming popular, and the iPhone was changing the way people thought about interacting with their data. In a way, it was genius: limiting the service and the device made it easy to explain and simple to use

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Windows Phone 8 Apollo Features Leak

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A video detailing the new features of Windows Phone 8 Apollo — originally intended for Microsoft’s smartphone partners — has leaked into the hands of PocketNow editors. Yay! In my opinion, Windows Phone Mango is a solid platform that’s quicker and smoother than anything I’ve seen on Android. Still, when looking at devices from Microsoft, Apple, and Google side-by-side, the Windows Phone always seems to lose in the spec department.

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Visualizing Facebook’s Media Storage: How Big Is 100 Petabytes?

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Just a little tidbit from everyone’s favorite reading material this week, the Facebook IPO filing : the company noted that it now stores over 100 petabytes of media (photos and videos) uploaded by its 845 million users. In case “100 petabytes” didn’t blow you over, the filing further explains that’s equal to “100 quadrillion bytes.” OK, now you’re just showing off, Facebook. The number was thrown out there in the section where Facebook details its data management and personalization technologies.

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Facebook just revealed its Kryptonite: mobile

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In its IPO filing Facebook mentioned the word “mobile” 123 times, which given the term’s buzz worthy status is hardly surprising. But in most cases Facebook didn’t use the word mobile in positive ways. In fact, it identified the proliferation of traffic to its mobile app and website as the biggest risks that its advertising-driven business model faces

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ConnecTV Prepares To Take On IntoNow With New Social TV Platform

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Today, a company called ConnecTV is launching an ambitious new service for socializing the TV viewing experience using mobile and web-based applications.

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The 6 Most Surprising Things From Facebook’s IPO Filing

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Zuckerberg on stage at an event in 2011. Photo: Paul Sakuma/AP After years of waiting for a peek behind Facebook’s financial curtain, the company finally filed its prospectus for an initial public offering on Wednesday, seeking $5 billion in funding. It’s on track to become one of the largest IPOs in tech company history.

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