The DeanBeat: Helsinki is still a hotbed for mobile games and tech
This week, I found myself at a party at Löyly, a sauna and bar at the edge of the Baltic Sea in Helsinki, Finland....
Zynga CEO Frank Gibeau interview — Bouncing back to fast growth
Zynga CEO Frank Gibeau has been doing some victory laps in recent quarterly earnings calls. The maker of social mobile games like FarmVille, Merge...
Zynga teams up with Alec Baldwin for 10th anniversary of Words With Friends
Zynga and Alec Baldwin have been a good match ever since the actor got kicked off a plane for playing Words With Friends as...
Zynga posts mixed results: Record bookings of $395 million, but short on profits
Zynga reported mixed results for the third quarter that ended September 30, beating revenue and bookings expectations but falling short on its profits after...
Twitch snags chief marketing officer Doug Scott from Zynga
Twitch is announcing today that former Zynga chief marketing officer Doug Scott is joining Amazon’s livestreaming service as its new CMO. He will be...
Adjust panel: The state of user acquisition for mobile games
Acquiring users for mobile games isn’t the sexiest part of the game industry. But it’s a critical one. And so I was happy to...
Zynga launches Breast Cancer Awareness Month campaign in Words With Friends
Zynga is kicking off a month-long initiative supporting Breast Cancer Awareness Month in its Words With Friends social mobile game. The event is Words...
Words With Friends player data allegedly stolen for 218 million users
A Pakistani hacker claims to have hacked Zynga’s Words With Friends popular social mobile game, gaining access to a database of information on more...
Zynga and Gram Games launch Merge Magic as latest tile-based mobile game
Zynga‘s Gram Games studio is launching a new mobile game, Merge Magic, in its hit series of “Merge” titles. Gram Games has gone a...
How Zynga looks for the right game companies to acquire
When Zynga sold its San Francisco headquarters for $600 million in May, the social mobile game company received a lot of fresh gunpower for...