By Sarah McBride and Liana B. Baker

(Reuters) – Zynga Inc is buying OMGPOP, maker of the popular video game “Draw Something” for about $200 million in its biggest acquisition to date as the company moves to expand its lineup of games on mobile devices and Facebook.

A source familiar with the matter told Reuters that Zynga bought the New York-based company for $200 million. The company declined to comment on the deal’s financials or say whether it was accretive on a conference call on Wednesday.

March 21 (Reuters) – Zynga Inc is buying OMGPOP,
maker of the popular video game “Draw Something” for about $200
million in its biggest acquisition to date as the company moves
to expand its lineup of games on mobile devices and Facebook.

A source familiar with the matter told Reuters that Zynga
bought the New York-based company for $200 million. The company
declined to comment on the deal’s financials or say whether it
was accretive on a conference call on Wednesday.

SAN FRANCISCO, March 12 (Reuters) – Venture
capitalists have some insights for startup entrepreneurs trying
to break out at Austin’s South By Southwest Interactive trade
show, a mecca for the technorati that runs through Tuesday.

“It has become challenging to break out at SXSW because
there’s so many great startups competing for the attention of
thought leaders here,” said Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers
partner Chi-Hua Chien.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Venture capitalists have some insights for startup entrepreneurs trying to break out at Austin’s South By Southwest Interactive, a mecca for the technorati that runs through Tuesday.

“It has become challenging to break out at SXSW because there’s so many great startups competing for the attention of thought leaders here,” said Kleiner Perkins Caufield Bowers partner Chi-Hua Chien.

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 21 (Reuters) – Josh Buckley, chief
executive of an online gaming start-up, is looking forward to
next month’s Game Developers Conference in San Francisco,
particularly for the parties and the accompanying schmoozing
with industry A-listers.

There’s one problem: Buckley, who will turn 20 this week on
Feb. 22, may be turned away from many of the parties because he
is not old enough to drink. His fake ID was recently
confiscated, and the two new ones he ordered from a company in
China have not yet arrived.

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 17 (Reuters) – When Jason Goldberg
set out to raise a new round of funding for his flash sales site
Fab.com, he dispensed with the usual PowerPoint presentations
and instead gave potential investors a look at the crown jewels:
the “dashboard” of real-time analytics that can instantly spot
trends and enable the site to tweak its offerings on the fly.

The company soon closed a $40 million round of funding from
blue-chip venture capitalists including Andreessen Horowitz.

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 3 (Reuters) – It’s the year’s
hottest initial public offering, but some wealth managers find
themselves having a hard time recommending Facebook to their
clients.

The world’s biggest social network is expected to seek a $75
billion to $100 billion valuation in its IPO, the most
anticipated stock offering from Silicon Valley since Google Inc
(GOOG.O: Quote, Profile, Research) went public in 2004.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – It’s the year’s hottest initial public offering, but some wealth managers find themselves having a hard time recommending Facebook to their clients.

The world’s biggest social network is expected to seek a $75 billion to $100 billion valuation in its IPO, the most anticipated stock offering from Silicon Valley since Google Inc went public in 2004.

By Sarah McBride

(Reuters) – Just about everyone in Silicon Valley has dreamed of striking it rich with a well-timed investment.

Here are the people and institutions that will benefit the most from Facebook’s initial public offering, assuming a $100 billion valuation for the world’s largest online social network. Some of the percentages below may change due to factors such as what options are exercised and when.