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Infamous hacker collective Anonymous has threatened to release confidential information about casual gaming company Zynga on November 5th. It is doing so, it claims, in response to the company’s outrageous treatment of their employees and their actions against many developers”. This presumably refers to last week’s closure of 13 of …

A loss of nearly $53m for the last quarter means that Zynga has now posted total losses of nearly $161m over the last nine months. But it wasn’t all bad news, and with numbers coming in ahead of expectations investors may this morning be feeling that there’s some reason for …

Social gaming giant plans 150 total layoffs

Social games publisher Zynga has closed 13 of its studios resulting in the losss of around 100 jobs. The news was relayed to staff in a company-wide memo by CEO Mark Pincus which Zynga public relations reps also shared with the press. Specifically, the firm plans to: – Close down …

Social games giant streamlining operations to 'make Zynga into an internet treasure'

Boston studio shuttered as two thirds of Austin studio staff cut

Industry vets of 38 Studios, Bethesda, NetherRealm and Zynga join leadership team

Legal battle's tension increases as casual studios lock horns

Former exec accused of stealing corporate secrets

JP Morgan analyst Doug Anmuth has effectively labelled social gaming firm Zynga as worthless”. That is to say that its share value has now fallen so low – $2.35 per share, in fact – that it is no longer worth as much as its securities, which combined represent value of …