Editor's Pick It's easy to take shots at Riccitiello's record, but his successes and failures were complex.
Zynga has lost former Omgpop chief revenue officer Wilson Kriegel.
Editor's Pick Zynga alleges EA tried to get it to collude on not hiring each others' employees.
Zynga has suffered a number of executive departures recently. The latest is Zynga's chief marketing officer, Jeff Karp.
Kixeye recruits a general manager away from Zynga so he can make "real" games.
Zynga had a bad quarter, but this does not mean that social gaming is completely and utterly collapsing.
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Beset by charges of copyright infringement and insider trading, the bad news keeps rolling in for Zynga as the social game company confirms the departure of chief operating office John Schappert.
Zynga’s bad day on July 25 when the company reported horrible earnings turned into a bad week when investors found out that insiders cashed out just three months prior and sued the company for insider trading.
Now that bad week …
Three months before releasing a quarterly earnings report that slaughtered an already-decimated stock, Zynga executives and investors unloaded some of their stock, raking in more than $500 million dollars. Now, multiple law firms are investigating whether the company or its …
Zynga insiders, including chief executive Marc Pincus, cashed out in April, selling 43 million shares for over $516 million -- just before the stock price cratered.
Zynga said in its earnings call with analysts today that it had “three key wins” in the first quarter: expansion into new social game genres, strong mobile growth, and diversification to its Zynga.com and Zynga partners platforms.
The social gaming …
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Too often, I flit from one conference to another like a wayward butterfly, trying to catch up with all the news. But the Game Developers Conference is one of my favorite events of the year because it places such a …
Zynga announced today that three major game companies have joined its new platform for publishing games on Zynga.com and Facebook. The new third-party partners include Japan’s Konami Digital Entertainment, one of the biggest console game makers, as well as Playdemic …
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John Schappert is the chief operating officer at Zynga. Today, the company is releasing one of his team’s big projects, formerly code-named Project Z, also known as Zynga.com for consumers, and Zynga Platform for third-parties. The announcement moves Zynga’s games …
In a gigantic strategic step, Zynga announced today that it is launching a new Zynga.com destination website where users can play its social games without going directly through Facebook.
The move has big implications for the entire social-game industry, and …
Zynga chief executive Mark Pincus said the social game company now has more than 15 million daily active users for its mobile games, compared to 10 million during the fall.
He made the announcement during a conference call with analysts …
Social gaming giant Zynga has hired Electronic Arts’ top mobile and social executive Barry Cottle as Zynga’s new executive vice president of corporate and business development.
The hire is a big development in the war for talent between the two …
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Zynga has turned the video game world upside down in its short five-year history. As it’s poised on the verge of a massive initial public offering, …
Zynga has posted its pitch to investors for its upcoming initial public offering roadshow. The pitch is part of Zynga’s plan to raise $850 million to $1.15 billion in an IPO that values the company at $5.9 billion to $6.99 …
