Starting from today and every week, we will share with you our web picks of the week. News and trends in casual and social games, mobile games, social networks… Share your thoughts!

• Facebook and Zynga have signed a five-year “strategic partnership” to maintain the symbiotic relationship between the social network and games.

read the article on Facebook

• Zynga acquires Chinese social game developer XPD Media build an official and strategic presence in this country.

read the article on InsideSocialGames.com

• And Playdom buys Acclaim, ‘one of the oldest name in the video games business’.

read the article on games.venturebeat.com

• Q1 2010 : mobile market is up, smartphones up, Android and iPhone up. The big winners? iPhone OS and Android, of course.

« iPhone OS market share improved considerably year-over-year, with its 112 percent unit growth enough to move it up to 15.4 percent among smartphones globally. »
read the article on Arstechnica.com

• The event of Google I/O 2010 was the announcement of Google TV. What is Google TV? Have a look at this video. Quite exciting.

Google TV could be a game-changer in the realm of connected devices by bringing connected TV to the mainstream.
read the article on Mashable.com.

From a media planning point of view, it also means you can launch ‘a national television ad campaign right from your existing Google AdWords account’ !

read the article on Quickonlinetips.com.

• Social games aren’t new! The history of social games : nice infographics and interesting post by Jon Radoff.
  

read the post on Jon Radoff’s Internet Wonderland