I think you should read that article closer. Revenue was up significantly. User base was up significantly. The losses were attributed to one time expenses related to their IPO.
Are we back to 1999?
I remember very well. In the remote year of 2011 Zynga was accusing Vostu of cloning some of their game.
Also in 2009 Zynga was sued for Copyright infringement, this time the settlement was filled by Psycho Monkey, due to the game Mafia Wars.
It seems that there is something very supicious happening with Zynga.
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3000 books * 1% = 30 books
So you have read 2970 books so far... considering you sleep 8 hours/day and work, and food, and bathroom... you probably had spent 4 hours/day reading...
And then you probably...
Never mind!
But the most important reason: Considerable tax reduction (as translated by Google Translate)
I am not famous, nor have a miniscule UID, but
Problem was it greated more work without benefit.
Of course it did! It's a major infrastructure change! It's not like we were "upgrading the internet" to make it run faster. The entire issue was that our current addressing infrastructure was inadequate. It's like saying, "this road doesn't go to the housing development that they're building up the road - we should make it longer", then complaining that the existing drivers didn't see any benefit. Everyone on the internet right now is fine - it's everyone who's not that this will benefit. So of course it's work without benefit for those of us here now!
Numeric stability is probably not all that important when you're guessing.