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Two new members added to live games management team
Read More »Scopely hires former Zynga business director
Roy Rosenthal joins mobile network as general counsel and head of business affairs
Read More »Analyst says Zynga needs to ditch boss Don Mattrick
Don Mattrick needs to go – that’s according to BTIG analyst Rich Greenfield. Polygon reports that Greenfield has published a paper called "Zynga Needs A New Leader – Time for Don Mattrick To Go", criticising the exec for the company’s purchase of Clumsy Ninja developer Natural Motion for $527m and …
Read More »Revenues down as Zynga posts annual loss
Zynga’s troubles to adapt to a mobile-led market continue, with its 2014 fiscal results showing a net loss of $226m. Of this, $129m was attributed to stock-based expenses, $7m to income tax benefit and $24m to the expense of its ongoing restructuring. Revenues came in at $690m for the year …
Read More »NaturalMotion leads Zynga’s 2015 mobile charge
Dawn of Titans joins Farmville match-three title and mobile Empires & Allies in social games firm's line-up
Read More »Zynga losses reach $226m in 2014
Revenues down by 20 per cent, Zynga China closed, but CEO Don Mattrick claims it was "a year of progress"
Read More »Storm8 hires former Zynga VP
Pablo Paniagua joins social games firm as head of product
Read More »Zynga’s Mark Pincus founds Superlabs
Social gaming veteran says new not-quite-an-incubator will fuel his next projects
Read More »Zynga’s games EVP Barry Cottle departs
Former EA exec latest to leave social games firm
Read More »Zynga launches New Words With Friends
Five years on from the release of the original, Zynga has updated one of the smartphone’s most successful properties. New Words With Friends brings with it a number of additions, chief of which is a solo-player mode for offline play that sees users squaring off against AI opponents. The game …
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