Mark Pincus Archives

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Slot jackpots help Zynga beat earnings guidance for second quarter

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
August 6, 2015
14 min

Maybe Mark Pincus is Zynga’s lucky charm. The social-gaming company reported second-quarter earnings and bookings today that beat Wall Street’s estimates. The company outperformed expectations in...

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14 min

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Zynga adds former EA exec Frank Gibeau to its board

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
August 6, 2015
2 min

Zynga announced today that it’s adding former Electronic Arts executive Frank Gibeau to its board of directors. Frank Gibeau, board member at Zynga. The...

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2 min

FarmVille 2 and The Ville among new titles.

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Mark Pincus spent $2.2M on his incubator; now he’s selling it to Zynga for $1

Posted byby GamesBeat
June 16, 2015
1 min

Zynga has acquired Superlabs, the incubator that Mark Pincus created after leaving Zynga, for $1. The acquisition closes the loop for Pincus, who started the...

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1 min

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Zynga’s No. 2 exec Clive Downie joins Unity Technologies as chief marketing officer

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
April 23, 2015
1 min

The departure comes 15 days after Zynga announced that ex-CEO Don Mattrick left the social mobile gaming company.

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1 min

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The DeanBeat: In games, rebooting a big dream isn’t easy

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
April 10, 2015
5 min

A tale of two companies with big dreams that have fallen down to Earth.

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5 min

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Zynga replaces CEO Don Mattrick with a familiar face — founder Mark Pincus

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
April 8, 2015
4 min

Mark Pincus returns to day-to-day control of Zynga.

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4 min

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Zynga chairman Mark Pincus starts new Superlabs incubator

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
November 6, 2014
2 min

The San Francisco startup will fund ideas that Pincus has been mulling over now that he has more time since giving up CEO duties at the social-gaming company.

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2 min

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Zynga's social slots chief leaves for a stealth start-up (exclusive)

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
September 14, 2014
1 min

Maytal Olsha served as Zynga's real-money gambling head and then ran the social slots business.

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1 min

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Storm8 wants to become a household name in mobile games (interview)

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
July 7, 2014
9 min

Though it has 40 mobile games, 250 employees, and 50 million monthly active players, the publisher is still considered a bit of a small fry among the familiar mobile game industry leaders like King, GungHo Entertainment, and Supercell.

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9 min

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Zynga departures finish new CEO's complete makeover of the management team

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
June 3, 2014
2 min

Travis Boatman, mobile game exec, and Terence Fung, biz dev guy, are the latest to leave.

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2 min