Amazon is teaming with Zynga to bring a voice-enabled version of the interactive entertainment company’s popular game “Words With Friends” to Alexa. “Words With Friends Word Pop” is available now… Read More
Former Electronic Arts and Zynga executive Jeff Karp is joining Big Fish Games as managing director and president, responsible for leading the Seattle-based casual games company under its second corporate… Read More
—ExtraHop, the Seattle-based IT operations analytics company, has appointed Mark Anderson to its board of directors. Anderson is the executive VP of worldwide field operations for Palo Alto Networks, an online security company. His focus… Read More
Zynga is dumping plans to operate its own data centers, returning to Amazon Web Services as part of a $100 million cost-cutting effort that also is resulting in 364 people… Read More
Don Mattrick stepped down as CEO of Zynga on Wednesday and will be replaced by the company’s founder and chairman, Marc Pincus. Mattrick took the CEO reigns from Pincus at… Read More
Will Costco be killed by mobile? Maybe, but it won’t be by Boxed, a mobile app that delivers large quantities of consumer packaged goods to your front door. GeekWire has learned that the start-up… Read More
For the first time, Zynga said more people are playing its games on phones than they are computers, indicating that the social-gaming leader has started to make progress on becoming a mobile-first company. In the… Read More
As part of the game company’s first-quarter earnings, Zynga has made a number of executive-level changes, hinting that it needs to do even more before it can complete a full turnaround.… Read More
Since PopCap was acquired by Electronic Arts nearly three years ago, the Seattle-based game maker has had its fair share of troubles: Layoffs, game cancellations, studio closures and executive departures.… Read More
It’s only been one week since 30 Zynga Seattle employees were laid off, but one local venture capital firm is already trying to help get the engineers back on their… Read More
Zynga announced today that it is laying off 314 workers and it looks like the company is shutting down its Seattle office in the process. A company spokesperson wouldn’t offer… Read More
Bang With Friends Inc., makers of the controversial Bang With Friends app, will be forced to change its company name after reaching a trademark settlement with Zynga. The two companies… Read More
Candy Crush is coming to Wall Street. According to a report by the Telegraph, King, the makers of Candy Crush Saga, have filed for a secret public offering under the… Read More
—Social game maker Zynga has reportedly lost its COO, CTO and head of HR as a part of a restructuring being done by CEO Don Mattrick, according to a new… Read More
When Zynga closed its New York office, home to OMGPOP, earlier this summer, there was some question as to what would happen to the properties that used Now we know:… Read More
RealNetworks’ GameHouse division continued making a splash in the social gaming arena today, announcing the acquisition of social casino company Slingo Inc. for $15.6 million. Slingo is an immensely popular online game with billions of… Read More
Zynga is all about making games that include the phrase “With Friends,” and now it appears that the company wants to keep that trademark to itself. Bloomberg reported last night… Read More
Don Mattrick is cleaning house at Zynga, it seems. Bloomberg reports today that three top executives at the social gaming company have left, citing unnamed sources familiar with the matter.… Read More
Zynga has had a bad run. The social gaming titan that built itself on a slew of games ending in “ville” is now a shadow of its former self. In… Read More
Conversations between former Microsoft Xbox boss Don Mattrick and Zynga, his new employer, have been going on much longer than just the past few months. A new Bloomberg report reveals that… Read More
When former Microsoft Xbox boss Don Mattrick takes over as CEO of Zynga next week, he’ll be at the helm of a company that just fell from atop the $1.2… Read More
Don Mattrick, the Microsoft Xbox chief who was just named the CEO of Zynga, sent a message to the social gaming company’s employees this afternoon, introducing himself and complimenting their… Read More
Things are rolling for Double Down Interactive. The Seattle-based maker of casino-style social games that was gobbled up by Las Vegas-based International Game Technology for as much as $500 million last year saw its… Read More
Zynga’s 2-year-old Seattle engineering office was largely spared in the game maker’s most recent layoff announcement, especially when compared to other branch offices that were reportedly shut down. But the… Read More
Zynga, the one-time high-flying maker of social games such as FarmVille and Words With Friends, is cutting 18 percent of its workforce and shutting down offices in New York, LA… Read More
Judson Althoff has been named president of North American sales and marketing at Microsoft, joining the company from Oracle where he worked for 14 years. At Oracle, he most recently served… Read More
Social game publishing company Zynga today announced the closure of its Baltimore office and consolidations at three other studios. The Seattle development office was not affected, a Zynga spokeswoman told… Read More
San Francisco-based Zynga pre-announced significant forecast cuts for its full-year earnings report on Thursday and is now seeing the affects today. Shares of the game maker, which has a local… Read More
Electronic Arts‘ has apparently had enough of its too-close-for-comfort neighbors The Ville. The gaming giant has filed suit against Zynga, accusing the game maker of essentially ripping off their popular… Read More
Cara Ely, a creative director at Zynga, wants to make one thing very clear. It is time to abolish “pink games” already, those titles that target women with annoying game… Read More
