{"id":56830,"date":"2014-07-11T02:07:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-11T10:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=56830"},"modified":"2014-07-11T01:07:55","modified_gmt":"2014-07-11T09:07:55","slug":"list-predicts-that-blackberry-and-zynga-will-disappear-by-end-of-2015","status":"publish","type":"magazine","link":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/magazine\/list-predicts-that-blackberry-and-zynga-will-disappear-by-end-of-2015","title":{"rendered":"List Predicts That Blackberry and Zynga Will &#8216;Disappear&#8217; by End of 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right; margin: 11px 33px;\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn1.valuewalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/BlackBerry.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"333\" height=\"231\" \/>Financial news site <em>24\/7 Wall St.<\/em> has published its annual list of North American companies it predicts &#8220;will disappear before the end of the next year.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!-- pagebreak --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/247wallst.com\/special-report\/2014\/07\/08\/10-brands-that-will-disappear-in-2015\/\" target=\"_blank\">Included in the list<\/a> is Zynga, the maker of such hit Facebook games as Farmville but whose popularity has waned recently. &#8220;Zynga can be considered the single greatest social media failure among recent IPOs,&#8221; <em>Wall St.<\/em> says. &#8220;Since early March, Zynga stock has dropped 45%, which while indicative of its troubles, also makes it a more attractive takeover target.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Another one is BlackBerry, the only Canadian company on the list, which <em>Wall St.<\/em> says &#8220;is about to run out of its nine lives.&#8221; The publication affirms that &#8220;revenue has continued its multiyear slide, confirming the belief that BlackBerry cannot survive on its own.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s worth noting that BlackBerry was on the list in 2012 and evidently failed to disappear.<\/p>\n<p>After five years of making predictions, out of the 49 companies that have made <em>Wall St.&#8217;s<\/em> annual list, 24 have &#8220;disappeared,&#8221; which includes being acquired and going into bankruptcy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Financial news site 24\/7 Wall St. has published its annual list of North American companies it predicts &#8220;will disappear before the end of the next year.&#8221; Included in the list is Zynga, the maker of such hit Facebook games as Farmville but whose popularity has waned recently. &#8220;Zynga can be considered the single greatest social [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55555,"featured_media":56832,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"magazine-region":[],"magazine-series":[],"magazine-topic":[],"class_list":["post-56830","magazine","type-magazine","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/56830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/magazine"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/55555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/56830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/56832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56830"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-region?post=56830"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-series?post=56830"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-topic?post=56830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}