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...Tinder is doing this through further gamification of the app, hiring executives from games companies Zynga, Electronic Arts, Glu and King in recent years to bolster its offering....
...Meanwhile, its acquisition of Zynga, the mobile games company behind FarmVille last year, looks increasingly ill-timed. Mobile gaming depends on the advertising industry....
...April 30, 2021: Dapper Labs, Inc., the company behind NBA Top Shot and the Flow blockchain, today announced US$250M in new funding. Led by Coatue . . ....
...Hoffman, who sold LinkedIn, the professional networking site, to Microsoft for $26bn in 2016, and Pincus, who co-founded the video game maker Zynga, have launched two Spacs....
...In the summer, TikTok quietly rolled out a feature that allowed video creators to link to simple games which, when clicked, can be played in a pop up web browser.TikTok already has a partnership with Zynga...
...Games company Zynga was sidelined by the boom in mobile gaming soon after its 2011 IPO and the founder eventually took the rare step of willingly giving up control....
...It is paying $12.7bn including debt for Zynga, a lossmaking specialist in free-to-play mobile games like Words With Friends and Zynga Poker....
...Zynga’s shares surged 52 per cent in pre-market trading in New York. *This story has been amended since first publication to correct the value of Take-Two stock that Zynga shareholders will receive....
...Take-Two completed a $13bn acquisition of Zynga earlier this year, while EA bought a 3D mobile gaming company called Glu for $2bn last year....
...Mobile gaming leaders — Activision Blizzard, Glu Mobile and Zynga — have been targeted....
...Less expensive than Zynga and less risky than Activision, EA is an attractive target....
...“Never let a good crisis go to waste,” Zynga chief executive Frank Gibeau told the Financial Times....
...gaming industry pick up, especially at the beginning of 2022 with some really monster deals, like Microsoft buying Activision Blizzard, Sony buying Bungie, the maker of Destiny and Halo, and Take-Two buying Zynga...
...Take-Two Interactive, the maker of the popular Grand Theft Auto game series, agreed last week to buy rival Zynga, the maker of FarmVille and Words with Friends, for $12.7bn....
...Zynga is owner of Zynga Poker, Social Slots, Words With Friends. It has recently scored a big hit with High Heels!...
...He also spent three years at Zynga during the heyday of Facebook gaming, overseeing titles such as FarmVille and Mafia Wars....
...would go public via a merger with Reinvent Technology Partners, the special purpose acquisition company created last year by Hoffman, who co-founded LinkedIn, and Pincus, founder of the video games maker Zynga...
...The number of daily users playing Zynga games hit a record last quarter, at 22m....
...Zynga earnings boosted by lockdown gaming habits https://www.ft.com/content/dfee19e3-1084-4d53-b522-99b6595281e7?...
...“The international stance that Peak has is very complementary to what we’re doing at Zynga,” he added....
...Mobile gaming group Zynga reports and dating app Bumble’s IPO is priced ahead of its listing....
...Leading gaming companies Zynga and Applovin have done exactly that....
...(Slate + Thrilling Tales of Modern Capitalism podcast) News round-up Flying taxi start-up Joby to go public in deal with LinkedIn and Zynga founders (FT) Goldman and Blackstone CEOs join chorus of support...
...It follows Microsoft’s $7.5bn plan to acquire ZeniMax and Zynga’s takeovers of the mobile games makers Peak and Rollic....
...For the current quarter, Zynga projects $325m in revenue and $380m in bookings....
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