GSN snatches up former Zynga chief marketing officer
GSN has picked up Jeff Karp, former chief marketing officer at Zynga
The exodus continues: Zynga’s chief security officer resigns
Nils Puhlmann, the chief security officer at Zynga, is the latest to leave the firm.
How Activision uses Salesforce.com for engaging with (complaining) gamers
Salesforce.com chief executive Marc Benioff relates how his company transformed the social support infrastructure at Activision Blizzard, the publisher of the Call of Duty games and an enterprise with $4.8 billion in annual sales.
With a veteran startup team, Scopely raises $8.5M for social mobile games
Scopely is methodically launching engaging social games on mobile devices. And it's doing so with an all-star staff and funding of $8.5M
Chasing more engaged users, Zynga acquires ‘midcore’ social game startup A Bit Lucky
Faced with a slowdown in the core casual game market on Facebook, Zynga has expanded into mid-core games with the acquisition of A Bit Lucky
Zynga strikes back hard at EA in copyright infringement case
Zynga denies copying The Sims Social and lobs legal grenades back at Electronic Arts
Startup Seeds makes a game out of microlending
Rachel Cook at the team at Seeds are raising money via crowdfunding to gamify micro-lending.
Zynga confirms it hired real-money gambling chief
Zynga confirmed it has brought aboard a real-money gambling executive to guide its way into online gambling.
In a twist, Zynga to import two mobile games from its Japan division
Zynga is bringing over two of its Japanese role-playing games.
Report confirms that social casino games have hit the jackpot with $1.6B in revenue
Yes, indeed. Social casino games are hot. The number of social gamers playing casino style games has doubled since 2010.