Facebook and game creator Zynga, recently valued at billion, have signed a five-year “strategic partnership” to maintain the symbiotic relationship between the social network and games like FarmVille, Mafia Wars and Treasure Island. Facebook Credits, Facebook’s virtual currency system, will be an important part of the partnership between the two companies and its use will [...]

Independent book publisher Author Solutions today announced a distribution deal with social publishing startup Scribd. Under the terms of said agreement, all new ASI titles published through the AuthorHouse, iUniverse, Trafford Publishing, and Xlibris will be made available for purchase through the Scribd website. In addition, a portion of its backlist of more than 120,000 [...]

Hello, Hollywood. On the heels of the Foursquare-Bravo TV deal, news of several additional major media partnerships involving the location-based social networking app have dropped this evening. According to various reports, Zagat, Warner Bros., HBO, the History Channel and ExploreChicago have all been added to Foursquare’s media and entertainment mix. Here are the partnerships that [...]