This amounts to Zynga’s tenth acquisition in as many months, expanding the company’s existing presence in Boston and adding ten different game titles on different platforms.

Here’s what Zynga had to say about the deal on its own blog:

We are delighted to announce that the team from independent game developer Floodgate Entertainment is joining the Zynga family today, bringing a wealth of experience in developing big brand mobile titles that have won awards and commercial success across casual, mobile and PC platforms. The newest team members from Floodgate will join our growing Zynga Boston office.

This addition showcases our commitment to working with top-notch talent that shares our passion for building innovative and fun social games. Industry veteran and Floodgate founder Paul Neurath will join Zynga Boston as Creative Director. Paul brings over two decades of experience in game development to Zynga and is responsible for a number of acclaimed titles. In 1990 Paul founded Blue Sky Productions, which became LookingGlass in 1992.

We’re continuing to grow, in Boston and beyond, and that means we need more great minds to join our team! If you’re interested in joining a smart, creative company with a passion for taking on new challenges (in Boston, or in one of our other offices across the globe), visit here for a list of opportunities.

Readers, what do you think about this deal?

This amounts to Zynga’s tenth acquisition in as many months, expanding the company’s existing presence in Boston and adding ten different game titles on different platforms.

Here’s what Zynga had to say about the deal on its own blog:

We are delighted to announce that the team from independent game developer Floodgate Entertainment is joining the Zynga family today, bringing a wealth of experience in developing big brand mobile titles that have won awards and commercial success across casual, mobile and PC platforms. The newest team members from Floodgate will join our growing Zynga Boston office.

This addition showcases our commitment to working with top-notch talent that shares our passion for building innovative and fun social games. Industry veteran and Floodgate founder Paul Neurath will join Zynga Boston as Creative Director. Paul brings over two decades of experience in game development to Zynga and is responsible for a number of acclaimed titles. In 1990 Paul founded Blue Sky Productions, which became LookingGlass in 1992.

We’re continuing to grow, in Boston and beyond, and that means we need more great minds to join our team! If you’re interested in joining a smart, creative company with a passion for taking on new challenges (in Boston, or in one of our other offices across the globe), visit here for a list of opportunities.

Readers, what do you think about this deal?

This amounts to Zynga’s tenth acquisition in as many months, expanding the company’s existing presence in Boston and adding ten different game titles on different platforms.

Here’s what Zynga had to say about the deal on its own blog:

We are delighted to announce that the team from independent game developer Floodgate Entertainment is joining the Zynga family today, bringing a wealth of experience in developing big brand mobile titles that have won awards and commercial success across casual, mobile and PC platforms. The newest team members from Floodgate will join our growing Zynga Boston office.

This addition showcases our commitment to working with top-notch talent that shares our passion for building innovative and fun social games. Industry veteran and Floodgate founder Paul Neurath will join Zynga Boston as Creative Director. Paul brings over two decades of experience in game development to Zynga and is responsible for a number of acclaimed titles. In 1990 Paul founded Blue Sky Productions, which became LookingGlass in 1992.

We’re continuing to grow, in Boston and beyond, and that means we need more great minds to join our team! If you’re interested in joining a smart, creative company with a passion for taking on new challenges (in Boston, or in one of our other offices across the globe), visit here for a list of opportunities.

Readers, what do you think about this deal?

William Shatner took his grievance with Facebook to Twitter and that motivated the social network to restore his profile in about an hour.

Facebook abounds with fan pages dedicated to Shatner (who younger folks might only know as the Negotiator in Priceline commercials) explains why such a mistake might happen. However, the site has previously pulled accounts belonging to non-celebrities who happen to share the same names as famous people.

The social network has the best of intentions in trying to stop impostor profiles and pages, given the potential security problems. Facebook now has a law to back up efforts to do away with fakery on the site, which counts as a misdemeanor in California.

However, the legislation prohibits posing as another living person with the objective of causing harm or fraud, while some of the cases of celebrity profiles — versus noncelebrities with the same names — haven’t involved that motive.

How can Facebook improve the way it handles this issue?

She had posted on Facebook images of her lavish vacations in Turkey three times a year, plus a trip to Barbados to get married; but her tax returns suggested she had no ability to afford such trips. She was collecting what the Brits call income support averaging £170 pound weekly, which according to exchange rates today amounts to $275.48 in U.S. dollars.

Her fraudulent collections from the government amounted to £21,000 ($34030.48) during 2009, including income support, housing and tax benefits, all the while receiving maternity pay from her employer, according to the U.K. Press Association. Her tax returns and benefit filings also said she was a single mother when in fact she was living with her husband.

The 47-year-old woman received a sentence of 120 days in prison after pleading guilty to four charges of making false statements and one failure to notify tax authorities of a change in circumstance — presumably that was her marriage, photos of which appeared on her Facebook profile.

The moral of this story: Auditors know well enough to look at people’s postings on social networks for clues about fraudulent activity, warranting more careful use of the privacy settings on the site; and like any accountant will tell you, tax authorities always manage to catch up with cheats.

Does Cunningham’s story inspire you at all to make sure your profile doesn’t contradict your tax filings?

She had posted on Facebook images of her lavish vacations in Turkey three times a year, plus a trip to Barbados to get married; but her tax returns suggested she had no ability to afford such trips. She was collecting what the Brits call income support averaging £170 pound weekly, which according to exchange rates today amounts to $275.48 in U.S. dollars.

Her fraudulent collections from the government amounted to £21,000 ($34030.48) during 2009, including income support, housing and tax benefits, all the while receiving maternity pay from her employer, according to the U.K. Press Association. Her tax returns and benefit filings also said she was a single mother when in fact she was living with her husband.

The 47-year-old woman received a sentence of 120 days in prison after pleading guilty to four charges of making false statements and one failure to notify tax authorities of a change in circumstance — presumably that was her marriage, photos of which appeared on her Facebook profile.

The moral of this story: Auditors know well enough to look at people’s postings on social networks for clues about fraudulent activity, warranting more careful use of the privacy settings on the site; and like any accountant will tell you, tax authorities always manage to catch up with cheats.

Does Cunningham’s story inspire you at all to make sure your profile doesn’t contradict your tax filings?

She had posted on Facebook images of her lavish vacations in Turkey three times a year, plus a trip to Barbados to get married; but her tax returns suggested she had no ability to afford such trips. She was collecting what the Brits call income support averaging £170 pound weekly, which according to exchange rates today amounts to $275.48 in U.S. dollars.

Her fraudulent collections from the government amounted to £21,000 ($34030.48) during 2009, including income support, housing and tax benefits, all the while receiving maternity pay from her employer, according to the U.K. Press Association. Her tax returns and benefit filings also said she was a single mother when in fact she was living with her husband.

The 47-year-old woman received a sentence of 120 days in prison after pleading guilty to four charges of making false statements and one failure to notify tax authorities of a change in circumstance — presumably that was her marriage, photos of which appeared on her Facebook profile.

The moral of this story: Auditors know well enough to look at people’s postings on social networks for clues about fraudulent activity, warranting more careful use of the privacy settings on the site; and like any accountant will tell you, tax authorities always manage to catch up with cheats.

Does Cunningham’s story inspire you at all to make sure your profile doesn’t contradict your tax filings?

She had posted on Facebook images of her lavish vacations in Turkey three times a year, plus a trip to Barbados to get married; but her tax returns suggested she had no ability to afford such trips. She was collecting what the Brits call income support averaging £170 pound weekly, which according to exchange rates today amounts to $275.48 in U.S. dollars.

Her fraudulent collections from the government amounted to £21,000 ($34030.48) during 2009, including income support, housing and tax benefits, all the while receiving maternity pay from her employer, according to the U.K. Press Association. Her tax returns and benefit filings also said she was a single mother when in fact she was living with her husband.

The 47-year-old woman received a sentence of 120 days in prison after pleading guilty to four charges of making false statements and one failure to notify tax authorities of a change in circumstance — presumably that was her marriage, photos of which appeared on her Facebook profile.

The moral of this story: Auditors know well enough to look at people’s postings on social networks for clues about fraudulent activity, warranting more careful use of the privacy settings on the site; and like any accountant will tell you, tax authorities always manage to catch up with cheats.

Does Cunningham’s story inspire you at all to make sure your profile doesn’t contradict your tax filings?

She had posted on Facebook images of her lavish vacations in Turkey three times a year, plus a trip to Barbados to get married; but her tax returns suggested she had no ability to afford such trips. She was collecting what the Brits call income support averaging £170 pound weekly, which according to exchange rates today amounts to $275.48 in U.S. dollars.

Her fraudulent collections from the government amounted to £21,000 ($34030.48) during 2009, including income support, housing and tax benefits, all the while receiving maternity pay from her employer, according to the U.K. Press Association. Her tax returns and benefit filings also said she was a single mother when in fact she was living with her husband.

The 47-year-old woman received a sentence of 120 days in prison after pleading guilty to four charges of making false statements and one failure to notify tax authorities of a change in circumstance — presumably that was her marriage, photos of which appeared on her Facebook profile.

The moral of this story: Auditors know well enough to look at people’s postings on social networks for clues about fraudulent activity, warranting more careful use of the privacy settings on the site; and like any accountant will tell you, tax authorities always manage to catch up with cheats.

Does Cunningham’s story inspire you at all to make sure your profile doesn’t contradict your tax filings?

She had posted on Facebook images of her lavish vacations in Turkey three times a year, plus a trip to Barbados to get married; but her tax returns suggested she had no ability to afford such trips. She was collecting what the Brits call income support averaging £170 pound weekly, which according to exchange rates today amounts to $275.48 in U.S. dollars.

Her fraudulent collections from the government amounted to £21,000 ($34030.48) during 2009, including income support, housing and tax benefits, all the while receiving maternity pay from her employer, according to the U.K. Press Association. Her tax returns and benefit filings also said she was a single mother when in fact she was living with her husband.

The 47-year-old woman received a sentence of 120 days in prison after pleading guilty to four charges of making false statements and one failure to notify tax authorities of a change in circumstance — presumably that was her marriage, photos of which appeared on her Facebook profile.

The moral of this story: Auditors know well enough to look at people’s postings on social networks for clues about fraudulent activity, warranting more careful use of the privacy settings on the site; and like any accountant will tell you, tax authorities always manage to catch up with cheats.

Does Cunningham’s story inspire you at all to make sure your profile doesn’t contradict your tax filings?