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The new Zynga partner program puts the company's know-how to work for outside game developers--but it'll also help Zynga get smarter faster.

In a move to grow beyond the confines of Facebook, Zynga announced its own gaming platform. Zynga founder Mark Pincus opened the company’s second "Unleashed" press event Tuesday by tipping his hat to the hundreds of employees who lined the rafters of the five-story headquarters in San Francisco

Hasbro and Zynga announced today that they have entered into a global partnership. With this license, Hasbro will be making a variety of toys and board games using Zynga's brands, with the first products expected to be released in the coming Fall.

Here's how you can avoid Zynga's equity snafu if you're considering offering employees stock options.

Can you build a long-term business on other people's platforms? Illustration by Brian Staufferr The oxpecker is an African bird that ekes out a living from the ticks that live on the backs of rhinoceroses. I imagine even it would be embarrassed by Zynga 's dependency on Facebook.

Social-gaming powerhouse Zynga just filed its S-1 to raise up to $1 billion in IPO. It appears virtual farms and online cities have treated the San Francisco-startup well: Zynga pulled in $91 million in profit on sales of $597 million. What's more, revenue is rocketing

The early Facebook investor just gave 24 kids $100,000 each to leave college, plus Zynga's looming IPO, and the rest of today's news. Each day, Inc.'s reporters scour the Web for the most important and interesting news to entrepreneurs. Here's what we found today

News leaked weeks ago that pop powerhouse Lady Gaga might team with Zynga for a possible promo deal .

The casual games space is heating up--and two major acquisitions this week point the way forward. Zynga is poised to go global on a greater scale. This week it announced it had acquired Wonderland Software, a British studio behind a popular mobile game called GodFinger

ZynGaga! What would a Zynga/Gaga collaboration look like? We have a few ideas. Lady Gaga and Zynga , the wildly successful online gaming company behind FarmVille, are in talks regarding a possible promotional deal, reports the Wall Street Journal

01 / Zynga > > For dominating--and monetizing--the social-gaming industry. The largest social-games developer in the world touts hundreds of millions of monthly active users on FarmVille, Treasure Isle, Zynga Poker, Mafia Wars, and more

Today, Most Innovative Company Zynga announced the talent acquisition of Massachusetts-based game developer Floodgate Entertainment. Floodgate's six-person team, known mostly for co-developing mobile and PC titles, will be absorbed by Zynga's Boston offices. The acquisition marks Zynga's tenth and 10 months--previous acquisitions ranged from XPD in Beijing to Bonfire Studios in Dallas to Dextrose AG in Frankfurt