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App Watch: FarmVille Creators Go Hunting for Treasure

in News on April 12, 2010 at 7:49 am PT

The makers of popular Facebook games FarmVille and Mafia Wars have a new time waster that has users digging for buried treasure–and the game already has had 7.5 million players after about a week. Treasure Isle, which was created by social-gaming company Zynga, puts users on tropical islands where they dig for treasure such as jewels, gold coins and Tiki statues.

Harvard Dropout Zuckerberg Feted by, Well, Harvard!

in News on June 18, 2008 at 5:12 am PT

Oh the sweet irony of Facebook Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg getting awarded a big round glass object, suitable for mantel-showing-off, from Harvard types. Especially since he is now the school’s second most famous tech mogul dropout–after Microsoft’s Bill Gates. But that was the case last night at the San Francisco Airport Hyatt Regency, where the 24-year-old Zuckerberg collected the 30th Entrepreneurial Company of the Year Award from the Harvard Business School Association of Northern California.
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