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Zynga to cut 18% of workforce
Social video game company Zynga Inc. on Monday said it will cut 18% of its staff, or about 520 employees. The struggling maker of games such as "FarmVille" and "Words With Friends" is making the cuts as part of an effort to reduce costs by $70 million...Tags: Gaming Industry, Zynga Inc., Pandora Media, Inc., Financing and Stock Offerings, Words With Friends (game)
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Zynga recorta fuerza de trabajo en un quinto, acciones caen
ReutersPor Gerry Shih SAN FRANCISCO, 3 jun (Reuters) - El desarrollador de juegos en internet Zynga Inc anunció el lunes su mayor ronda de despidos y advirtió sobre débiles reservas para el actual trimestre, planteando dudas en torno al intento de...Tags: Zynga Inc.
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‘Candy Crush Saga’ gives addicted mobile-game players a sugar rush
Hero Complex - movies, comics, pop culture - Los Angeles TimesI slide three shiny red jelly beans together. Trumpet blast. I put three lemon drops in a line. A xylophone […]... -
Not all fun and (video) games
Big Huge Games in Timonium closed last May, taking nearly 100 jobs with it. Nine months later, a local studio that was launched from the ashes of the video game-maker shut down, too. And Zynga, which created FarmVille and Words with Friends, closed its...
Tags: Apple iPad, Zynga Inc., Baltimore County, Curt Schilling, Catonsville
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Zynga closes Timonium video game studio in broader consolidation
Zynga, the video game maker best known for FarmVille and Words With Friends, has closed its Timonium office as part of a broader corporate consolidation, company officials said Monday. The company also made changes at three other offices, closing and...
Tags: Gaming, Gaming Industry, Zynga Inc., Timonium, Media Industry
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Gavin Newsom says the revolution will be digitized
-------------------- Citizenville How to Take the Town Square Digital and Reinvent Government Gavin Newsom with Lisa Dickey Penguin Press: 272 pp., $25.95 -------------------- California Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom has a lot more time on his hands than...
Tags: YouTube, Dyslexia, Teach for America, Arts and Culture, Peace Corps
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Professor's journey for a school is rich in life lessons
Special to the TribuneLaura Pincus Hartman stood before a congregation in a church just south of 75th Street, gazing at anticipatory faces. The pastor had just finished preaching an hour-long sermon from the Gospel of Mark about Jesus healing a woman. Hartman was about...Tags: Zynga Inc., Natural Disasters, Chicago Sun-Times, Haiti, University of Chicago Law School
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Zynga calls EA lawsuit 'baseless,' countersues
Zynga Inc. has fired back at Electronic Arts Inc., calling EA's copyright infringement lawsuit against it "baseless" and filing a countersuit alleging that the video game giant for prevented its employees from leaving to work for Zynga. “Today we...Tags: Gaming, Gaming Industry, Zynga Inc., Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks, Crime, Law and Justice
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Facebook to Zynga: Social games are growing, not shrinking
The tiff between the world's largest social network and the company behind the "FarmVille" social game escalated this week. Facebook on Tuesday shot back at Zynga, saying the number of people playing games on the social network on a monthly basis grew...
Tags: Social Media, Gaming Industry, Culture, Zynga Inc., Arts and Culture
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New Media Offer New Ways To Dodge Those Darn Reporters' Pesky Questions
The Hartford CourantWe are approaching a moment when candidates running for Congress don't have to bother with old-fashioned media. Not so long ago, it might have been unthinkable for a non-incumbent to largely kiss off all but carefully scripted exchanges with local...Tags: YouTube, Ned Lamont, Social Media, Twitter, Inc., Email
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Woman charged with stealing nearly $10K to purchase 'goods' for Facebook game
Q13 FOX News reporterUsually when people steal money it’s to buy something, and that something is typically real and tangible. But an Arlington, Wash., woman who has been charged with stealing nearly $10,000 in very real dollars to purchase “goods” for...Tags: Theft, Prosecution, Credit and Debt, Facebook, FrontierVille
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Facebook announces 'app center', paid apps
CNNFacebook users who haven't yet discovered the joys of FarmVille or plugged in to the sounds of Spotify will be getting an easier way to find apps that run on the site. On Thursday, the site unveiled Facebook App Center, a clearinghouse for social apps...Tags: Apple iPhone, Social Media, Google Inc., Zynga Inc., Facebook
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