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Zynga reports Q4 bookings of $727M, up 4%

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Zynga reported fourth-quarter earnings that showed it continues to grow its mobile social game business. The results beat the company’s guidance for bookings and revenues.

Take-Two announced in January that it was acquiring Zynga for an enterprise value of $12.7 billion, a big premium above its trading price. It’s one of the biggest deals in gaming history, though it was dwarfed by January’s announcement that Microsoft would buy Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.