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Article | 22/03/2013 Zynga to let users play games without Facebook
Zynga's network of users has historically been tightly linked to Facebook's social graph, but now the gaming giant is looking to branch out.
Article | 9/01/2013 'Worst CEO' list calls out Zynga's Pincus, Zuckerberg's 'hoodie mentality'
Zynga's Mark Pincus made the annual "Worst CEOs" list compiled by Dartmouth College professor Sydney Finkelstein, which also nearly included Mark Zuck...
Article | 30/11/2012 Facebook loosens ties with Zynga
Facebook and Zynga have loosened their ties in an amended agreement that does away with most of Facebook's exclusive rights to Zynga games, but also p...
Article | 24/10/2012 Zynga lays off workers, closes Boston studio
Zynga is cutting about 5 percent of its workforce, and is "sunsetting" 13 of its older games, the company's founder and CEO Mark Pincus said Tuesday i...
Article | 17/12/2011 Wall Street Beat: IPOs, M&A, chip news stir tech optimism
Zynga's initial public offering Friday, a raft of acquisition announcements this week from IBM, Salesforce and others, and some upbeat reports on the ...
Article | 15/10/2011 Web 2.0 Summit to focus on value, pitfalls of online data
This year's Web 2.0 Summit will focus on the critical role that online data plays in the Internet economy and on how its use and misuse can make the d...
Article | 13/10/2011 SLIDESHOW: Inside Zynga's crazy new headquarters
Zynga invited the media to its new headquarters in San Francisco this week to show off its latest games. It's at the corner of 8th and Townsend in a f...
Article | 12/10/2011 Zynga gets more social, more violent
Zynga is making its games more social, but also more edgy, so players will be able to meet people more easily, then hack them to death with a chainsaw...
Article | 18/08/2011 Zynga reportedly buys Astro Ape
Zynga has acquired mobile games start-up Astro Ape, according to Business Insider, which notes that Astro Ape employees are changing their place of em...
Article | 18/08/2011 Zynga sued for alleged patent infringement
Zynga has been sued in a federal district court in Delaware for allegedly infringing on two patents obtained in the 1990's by Agincourt Gaming.
Article | 26/07/2011 Zynga partners with Tencent to launch game in China
U.S. social game developer Zynga has partnered with one of China's largest Internet companies, Tencent, to bring its popular CityVille game to the cou...
Article | 28/06/2011 Hanging With Friends for iPhone
There's a decent word game to be found in Hanging With Friends, an attempt to translate the winning Words With Friends formula to the classic game of ...
Article | 16/03/2011 Asian tech companies chip in relief to Japan quake victims
Technology companies across Asia have found ways to help people in Japan left devastated by the 9.0-magnitude earthquake last Friday, the 7-meter tsun...
Article | 11/03/2011 FarmVille game developer opens studio in India
Zynga, the gaming company behind the popular FarmVille app on Facebook, has set up a studio in India to develop games for global markets, a company e...
Article | 16/02/2011 Zynga's secret to success: connecting casual friends
While enjoyable to play for many, the runaway success of the online games from Zynga can largely be attributed to how they bring together acquaintance...

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