Still Pincus pointed to successes in its web games FarmVille 2 and ChefVille as reasons for optimism in the future.
In part to bring back its high growth, Zynga plans to launch two new web games per quarter and four mobile games per quarter in 2013.
In a few years, it's likely we'll see an all-out battle between the likes of Virgin, Sky, Microsoft, Sony and even the BBC, Apple or Google to own your home's de facto entertainment hub - providing movies, music, television and games via a web connection in your living room.
The challenges we faced in our web business in Q2 continued in Q3 and while many of our games achieved plan, we still experienced overall weakness in the invest and express category.
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Users can access their favorite apps with a single click through the app launcher and find new favorites from the thousands of Chrome apps and games featured in the Chrome Web Store.
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Brewster, who grew up during the Vince Lombardi era of the Packers in the Milwaukee area, keeps an "NFL Weather Hall of Fame" on his private Web site, a list of games played in severe cold and other bizarre weather conditions.
Additionally, hundreds of apps in the Chrome Web Store contain offline functionality including games and the Kindle Cloud Reader.
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These reductions, along with our ongoing efforts to implement more stringent budget and resource allocation around new games and partner projects, will improve our profitability and allow us to reinvest in great games and our Zynga network on web and mobile.
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Kindle Fire is the Kindle for movies, TV shows, music, books, magazines, apps, games and web browsing with all the content, free storage in the Amazon Cloud, Whispersync, Amazon Silk (Amazon's new revolutionary cloud-accelerated web browser), vibrant color touch screen, and powerful dual-core processor.
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Like the Xbox, it plays music and videos, in addition to games, and also has a Web browser.
In Nov. 2009, the company acquired a majority stake in Jolt Online Gaming, a developer of web-based games.
The IdeaCentre Q190, the world's smallest1 full-function desktop PC at just 22mm (0.86 inches) wide, packs multimedia features that can turn any display in your home into an entertainment hub for videos, games, web browsing and more.
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After 10 years of development of online games in China, it had become possible to run 3D games on the web.
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Enter Sibblingz: a startup that Tuesday launched a cloud-based game server that allows game developers to more quickly and easily create free-to-play games with micro-transactions in them, across Facebook, iPhone and the Web simultaneously.
With the TV connect users will be able to play games, stream videos, video chat in HD, email friends or surf the web all from their big screen TV.
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Avaya, which creates communications tools for businesses, has also borrowed know-how developed for games for a product called web.alive, which allows people to hold meetings and conferences in a virtual environment, using avatars.
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At the Web 2.0 summit in San Francisco, Microsoft showed how Bing can let you play games in search, IM people in Windows or Facebook a the same time, plan air travel, even choose and watch television or listen to music.
According to AnandTech, this results in an overall 16 percent increase in battery life during web browsing and as much as a 30 percent boost when playing games.
And a growing number of people worldwide own smartphones, which add Web surfing, apps, games and GPS-mapping to the list of diversions available to phone users in the driver's seat.
"I think they do need to maybe explain more, tell more about what's being done to make London ready for the Olympics in that sense -- transportation -- because that was one of the key issues before the vote in Singapore (when London won the Games in 2005), " said Ed Hula, the editor and founder of Olympics Web site Around the Rings.
In the mean time, Joe Lieberman and his French counterpart can play whatever political games of web-based whack-a-mole they like.
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On stage at the Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco, Zynga chief Mark Pincus said that 320 million people had played Zynga games to date.
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