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FarmVille is part of Zynga, the fastest-growing, most buzzed-about social-game company of the moment. In October, Zynga operated six of the 10 most popular Facebook games: FarmVille, Cafe World, Mafia Wars, YoVille, zyngapoker and Roller Coaster Kingdom. Founded in July 2007 by Mark Pincus, 43, Zynga had 45 staffers by June 2008 and now employs 600, counting contractors. Its most recently launched game, FishVille, hooked 9 million users in a week. Zynga is privately held, but a rival less than half its size was recently bought by Electronic Arts, the GM of games, for $400 million...
However, he believes the survey's results reflect emotional responses rather than reality. "People are frozen with fear - this unbelievable emotional roller coaster has caused people to make decisions to continue to work even if they didn't need to," says Evans. "There's a belief that because the market has dropped and the economy appears to be terrible that they do not have enough to make ends meet ... But oftentimes, if they put pen to paper and examine the financial implications of the market pullback, they will find that they...
...financial meltdown has claimed the careers of many banking-industry stars. But no executive has had as big a roller-coaster ride during this crisis as Lewis. At its start, Lewis and Bank of America looked to benefit from the turmoil facing the banking business. The firm, based in Charlotte, N.C., had never been a big player in the subprime-mortgage business, in either lending or underwriting loans. That prudence led to smaller lending losses at B of A than at Citigroup and other rivals. What's more, while other financial firms were verging on broke, Bank of America seemed...
...United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), told reporters on Sept. 21 that the wording for a new agreement now being negotiated is "an absolute mess" so full of contradictions U.N. staff said it couldn't even be translated. "Climate-change policy tends to be a roller-coaster ride, but it seems to be getting rougher and rougher," he said. (See the top 10 green ideas...
...their temporal lobes as well. There's no known way of repairing amygdalae, so such conditions can't be reversed. But at least it's now possible to understand why it can be so unbearable to be in the middle of a packed line for the Hulk roller coaster: your amygdalae is going nuts...