SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Zynga Gets Acquired By NY-Based Game Maker Both Pfizer and Moderna say they're working on Omicron-specific vaccines, mobile game maker Zynga has been acquired by a New York company, and Klay Thompson made a triumphant return to the court last night — and Jeopardy! champ Amy Schneider was in the stands.
SF News Zynga HQ Officially Worth More Than Zynga It's official: The Zynga headquarters is now worth more than Zynga. We learned in February that the maker of Farmville intended to sell its Design District office building for was what assumed to
SF News Selling The Farmville: Zynga To Offload SF Headquarters San Francisco-based mobile games-making something something unprofitable Zynga has one trick left up its sleeve: the sleeve itself, which the company now plans to sell. As Bay Area real estate blog The Registry
SF News Day Around The Bay: More Layoffs At Zynga We may be in for some thunder and lightning with the storm that's passing through Thursday. [CBS 5] Zynga is having more layoffs, getting out of the sports game category, getting rid of
Arts & Entertainment Zynga Is Pissed About Bang With Friends The latest invention catering to Generation Slut, Bang With Friends, is now the subject of a lawsuit from Zynga. The company claims its trademark on the "With Friends" thing has been infringed upon,
SF News Zynga Lays Off 500+ Employees, Some Of Whom Learn Via Facebook It was a bloody Monday for Zynga, the San Francisco-based gaming company with the friendly dog mascot. Yesterday the company announced massive layoffs which cut 18% of Zynga's workforce and totalled 520 employees.
SF News Zynga Shares Tank, No One Wants To Draw Something Locally based Facebook game production house Zynga got the tech tweeters talking after the company announced a $22.7 million second quarter loss this afternoon. In their report, Zynga blamed the loss on
Arts & Entertainment Zynga Possibly Regretting That Draw Something Deal Draw Something, the game that local game-builder Zynga just paid $180 million to acquire from a smaller company, is already losing users according to a new report. Maybe it's because drawing with your
SF News How Much Did Zynga Save With The Payroll Tax Break? Based off of the $510 million in employee stock compensation the Cityville maker reported to the SEC last week, the company would have owed the city upwards of $6 million in funds that
SF News No One Wants In On Zynga Stock Zynga, the social gaming company responsible for CityVille and FarmVille and countless other time wasters went public today, but no one on Wall Street seemed to want to get in on the game.
SF News Zynga CEO Selling Off Swank S.F. Real Estate To Avoid Stalker? Mark Pincus, the Zynga CEO responsible for CityVille and a slew of other Facebook games that blew up your news feed in 2010, has listed two San Francisco homes on the market just
SF News Hahaha: Zynga CEO Wants Employees to Return Stock Zynga CEO Mark Pincus is funny. Why? Well, according to the Wall Street Journal, he wants his early employees to return some of the stock they own before the company's initial public offering.
SF News Zynga CEO Files Restraining Order Against Possibly Schizophrenic Stripper Who's Stalking Him Mark Pincus, the man who gave the world FarmVille and the CEO of highly successful social gaming company Zynga, has filed a restraining order against one Vera Svechina, a former stripper from Russia
SF News Supes' Twitter Proficiency Foreshadowed Tax Break Vote Over on the Chronicle, City Insider figured out the key to the Board's vote on the Twitter Tax Break: "The more you tweet, the more likely you were to vote for Twitter." (As
SF News That's One Cold Game of Cityville "[Zynga] let us know there is no way in the world that they can go public and pay payroll tax on all their employee stock options. They mostly just dropped that in our
SF News Sympathy for the Farmville: Ed Lee and David Chiu Want to Keep Zynga in Town Too One of the biggest arguments against offering Twitter a tax break for staying in San Francisco and (hopefully) injecting some life in to mid-Market is the precedent it would set for other companies
