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It takes 3,000 employees for Zynga Inc., ZNGA -0.38% the largest social-network game company in the world, to generate at least $150 million in annual operating profit.

From an office in Stockholm, a largely unknown company brought in more than half that sum. Its employee count: 29.

Ugh, this type of statement does a massive desservice to the programming service provider industry.



And it ignores the thousands of people writing mods for minecraft.


With something close to absolutely no support from Mojang, even though they've appropriated some of the community's features.




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