Zynga And Facebook: A Dangerously Close Relationship
By Francine • Oct 17th, 2012 • Category: Food for Thought, Pure ContentI’ve posted a short piece at Forbes.com on the possibility there’s more to the relationship between Zynga and Facebook than has been disclosed so far. There’s a mutuality of interests that goes beyond Facebook’s role as a host for Zynga’s games and the possible highest use of both firms’ platforms – online gambling.
Both companies treat each other as a customer for accounting purposes and that makes counting the money and revenues from advertising especially difficult. There’s a history of revenue recognition manipulation cases where a strong relationship between two companies - one dominant - makes it easy to fake revenues for both. Zynga is practically a wholly owned subsidiary of Facebook. At some point I think it will be, probably to actualize an online real-money gaming strategy.
Read more at Forbes.com.
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Francine McKenna (@retheauditors) has more than twenty-five years of experience in consulting and professional services including tenure at two Big 4 firms, both in the US and abroad. Look for my column, 