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Zynga Will Keep Trying To Make 'Farmville' Happen

Reuters | Gerry Shih | Posted 05.09.2013 | Technology

By Gerry Shih SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - In the past twelve months, Zynga Inc has struggled with a contracting player base, a deflated s...

Almost A Quarter Of Its Users -- GONE

AP | By BARBARA ORTUTAY | Posted 04.24.2013 | Technology

NEW YORK (AP) — Zynga Inc.'s surprise profit in the first three months of the year got overshadowed by a revenue decline, a drop in the number of us...

Zynga Just Became An Online Gambling Company

Reuters | Gerry Shih | Posted 04.04.2013 | Technology

By Gerry Shih SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Zynga Inc will take the plunge into real-money gambling on Wednesday when it will begin offerin...

Zynga Farms Its Own Future

David Sable | Posted 03.25.2013 | Media
David Sable

Bottom line -- Zynga has followed the content -- if you will. Sometimes it ends up on Facebook, sometimes in stand-alone use on a smartphone, and occasionally on a kitchen table or living room floor.

App Makers Struggle With How Fickle Facebook Can Be

Reuters | Gerry Shih | Posted 05.11.2013 | Technology

By Gerry Shih SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Last spring, the future for Viddy, a video-sharing Facebook app, seemed as sunny as southern Ca...

Games for Good: Zynga.org, Giving and Social Good Through Gaming

Amy Neumann | Posted 04.23.2013 | Impact
Amy Neumann

"Even the smallest act of caring for another person is like a drop of water -it will make ripples throughout the entire pond." -- Bryan Matteo The be...

Why Twitter Won't IPO in 2013

Bryce Maddock | Posted 03.25.2013 | Business
Bryce Maddock

You have seen it a hundred times before. The latest "it" company is standing on a balcony, overlooking a sea of applauding stockbrokers, reporters and other NYSE staff. Their company has gone public and the only way to go from here is up, right? Wrong.

Zynga Announces Major Cuts To Game Lineup

Reuters | Malathi Nayak | Posted 03.02.2013 | Technology

By Malathi Nayak SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Social games publisher Zynga Inc confirmed on Monday that it has carried out 11 of the plann...

Creative Ways Companies Are Giving Back Through Social Media

Amy Neumann | Posted 02.16.2013 | Impact
Amy Neumann

The spirit of giving is universal, regardless of where we live or what we celebrate. To embrace this giving and make it even more fun, companies are turning to another favorite thing: social media.

Zynga's Bet On Becoming One Giant Online Casino

Reuters | Gerry Shih | Posted 02.04.2013 | Technology

By Gerry Shih SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Social games maker Zynga Inc said on Wednesday it filed a preliminary application to run real-m...

The Games Facebook Went Crazy Over This Year

AP | By The Associated Press | Posted 02.04.2013 | Technology

Games can be both a welcome and an annoying diversion on Facebook, the world's most popular online social network. This year, Facebook crossed a big m...

Zynga Slumps As It's No Longer Exclusively 'In A Relationship' With Facebook

AP | Posted 11.30.2012 | Technology

NEW YORK -- Shares of Zynga slumped Friday after it disclosed with its partner Facebook that they have loosened their close ties to one another. THE ...

Facebook Finds The Knife With Which To Stab Zynga In The Back (But Will It?)

Reuters | Posted 01.29.2013 | Technology

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook Inc and Zynga Inc revamped terms of a years-old partnership that was widely viewed as giving Zynga preferential tre...

A Week In The Life Of Zynga's Executive Chef

Posted 12.27.2012 | Home

Food Informants is a week-in-the-life series profiling fascinating people in the food world. We hope it will give you a first-hand look at the many di...

How to Complete All Your Facebook Tasks in Just 4 Hours: A Tim Ferriss Presentation

Shira Lazar | Posted 01.20.2013 | Technology
Shira Lazar

"The 4-Hour Facebook" video provides insider tips on Instagramming your food, mastering FarmVille, ignoring Zynga Bingo, and much more so that you can set these measly four hours aside and make time for the truly important things in life.

Russian Company Wants Its Money Out Of Facebook

Reuters | Posted 01.09.2013 | Technology

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian email-to-social networking group Mail.Ru cut its stakes in U.S. internet firms Groupon, Facebook, and Zygna, according to t...

And Now The Layoffs Begin At Zynga

AP | SARAH SKIDMORE | Posted 12.23.2012 | Technology

PORTLAND, Oregon (AP) — Online game company Zynga Inc. is eliminating games, studios and jobs in a bid to cut costs. The maker of soc...

Zynga Closes One Office, Lays Off Over 100 From Another

Posted 12.23.2012 | Technology
Read More: Zynga, Technology News

Possibly trying to hide the grim news by announcing it during Apple's event, we've just independently confirmed that Zynga has shut down its Boston of...

How The Little Phone Is Tripping Up Huge Tech Companies

Reuters | Poornima Gupta | Posted 12.18.2012 | Technology

By Poornima Gupta SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Mobile may be the future of technology, but even with the worldwide proliferation of high-p...

Facebook's Plummeting Stock Price (Update)

Janet Tavakoli | Posted 12.15.2012 | Technology
Janet Tavakoli

Facebook appeared unprepared to launch, and its IPO was wildly overvalued. The question investors should ask themselves now is whether they should bail out, as many insiders and early investors did, when Facebook first went public, because there's a larger wave of potential selling before year-end.

It Just Wasn't In The Cards For Zynga's Poker Chief

Reuters | Posted 12.08.2012 | Technology

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Zynga Inc's executive overseeing its key poker game has quit, hitting the gamemaker in a particularly vulnerable spot as it ...

Dire Straits

Reuters | Posted 12.07.2012 | Technology

By Malathi Nayak and Gerry Shih SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Zynga Inc's inexorable decline over the past six months, capped by a sharp re...

Troubles Just Won't Stop For Zynga

AP | Posted 12.05.2012 | Technology

NEW YORK (AP) — Troubled Zynga's stock traded near its lowest level ever Friday after the online game maker behind "FarmVille" forecast a third quar...

What Will SF's Innovation Month Do for You?

Turnstyle | Posted 11.28.2012 | San Francisco
Turnstyle

San Francisco's cuddly relationship with tech firms has been actively cultivated by the mayor, but lately targeted by critics who say tech wealth has made San Francisco even more inhospitable to families and the working class.

Ain't Just Alec Baldwin Who Likes 'Words With Friends'

AP | DERRIK J. LANG | Posted 11.25.2012 | Technology

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Look out, Alec Baldwin. Edward Norton, Jonah Hill, Snoop Dogg and several other stars are slated to play in a cele...