Parent company Zynga has revenues of more than $600m a year which come mainly from FarmVille, despite competition from half a dozen other farm games on Facebook.
Last week John Henry, the Red Sox owner and Fenway Sports Group mogul, bought the Boston Globe and its websites for $70m, beating off competition from half a dozen rival bidders.
But now licensed cabdrivers in this city where the car remains king are facing their greatest competition in half a century, from new ride-sharing programs that use smartphone apps to connect drivers and passengers.
The Little League World Series is an international competition, with half of the 16 teams coming from outside the United States, including from places as distant as Tokyo, Moscow and Santiago de Veraguas, Panama.
Time and football move on and those old heroes, who later reached the European Cup semi-final, may be surprised to learn that as Spurs return to the competition almost half a century later, not only is tonight's final qualifying round first leg being played on an artificial pitch, but the only North London boy stepping onto it will be appearing for the opposition.
"Joe and Josh will add real competition at half back," London Welsh director of rugby Steve Lewis said.
Goals have been hard to come by in their matches, not least because they boast the meanest defence in Europe's premier competition, conceding half as many goals as their nearest rivals in that category.
Inventory is now so scarce that sellers sometimes enjoy a virtual monopoly, as was the case just last week with a listing that had no competition for half a mile in any direction.
Maybe cut Olympic competition in half by eliminating the women's medals.
The women's race began at 8 30am local time (GMT+8) and the men's competition began half an hour after this.
