Zynga Close To Acquiring Whereoscope, The App That Lets You Track Your Kids

Back in August we wrote about a Y Combinator-funded company calledWhereoscope that helps parents keep tabs on their kids using a location-aware smartphone application. Now we’re hearing that the startup is about to be acquired by a company that’s in an entirely different space: Zynga.Our understanding is that a term sheet has been signed but the deal has not yet closed, so it’s not a sure thing

Zynga’s Reported $7-$10 Billion Valuation Surpasses That Of EA

My friends over at the WSJ have been knocking it out of the park lately, reporting last nightthat social gaming phenomenon Zynga is raising a new $250 million round of funding that values the company at between $7 – $9 billion according to, eh hem, sources.Then today Bloomberg piggybacked on the news, naming names in terms of players in the talks, including Fidelity investments and T.Rowe Price (

The Separation of Church And Zynga: Wedding Chapels Stripped From CityVille

Zynga made a small but fascinating change to its young-yet-ubiquitous game CityVille over the weekend. Players could previously buy “Wedding Chapels,” which looked like small country churches but without a cross or other religious symbols, to add to their city. But the virtual item has been removed and replaced with the more secular and nondescript “Wedding Hall.” With two gold ring things that