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Take-Two Interactive CEO Says Acquiring Zynga Created a Broad-Appeal IP ‘Powerhouse’ (Video)
TheGrill 2022: The gaming company’s catalog “speaks to every part of the interactive interface,” Strauss Zelnick said
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Media Mergers Bounced Back in 2021, Signaling Even More Deals This Year | Charts
As competition gets fierce, analysts say target companies will get more expensive as fewer become available
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Take-Two to Acquire Zynga in $12.7 Billion Deal
Video game maker (“Grand Theft Auto,” the “2K” games) for platforms buys mobile game maker
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Inside the Making of Zynga’s First ‘Star Wars’ Mobile Game
“We have a beloved property that literally spans generations and each generation has their own take on the brand,” studio head Jeff Hickman tells TheWrap
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How ‘Pick Up and Play’ Games Pay Off for Game Developer Zynga
Zynga’s Social Slots game, a mobile adaptation of casino slots with chat features, was the highest-earning game in the quarter
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Inside PlayCo’s $100 Million Push to Make Gaming as Easy as Clicking a Link
The startup wants to make “games Generation Z can play with their grandparents,” PlayCo CEO Michael Carter tells TheWrap
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Zynga to Shut Down Original ‘Farmville,’ Once Facebook’s Most Popular Game, At End of 2020
FarmVille was the top game by daily active users on Facebook between August 2009 and December 2010
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Mobile Gaming Startup Playco Raises $100 Million From Investors Including Will Smith
Tokyo-based Playco is now valued at $1 billion
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5 Signs Big Tech Has Benefited From the Pandemic So Far
While the overall economy sputtered, giants like Facebook, Amazon gained more users and raked in more revenue
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Zynga Surpasses Earnings Estimates, Acquires Mobile Game Developer Rollic
Developer saw its highest mobile daily active users in April and early May as players sheltered-in-place
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What Zynga’s $1.8 Billion Purchase of Peak Games Means for Global Mobile Games Market
“Consolidation is going to happen in the mobile games space,” Zynga’s president of publishing Bernard Kim tells TheWrap
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Zynga to Buy Mobile Game Developer Peak for $1.8 Billion
“This is a monumental partnership not only for Zynga and Peak, but for the whole mobile gaming industry,” Peak CEO Sidar Sahin said
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‘Words With Friends’-Obsessed? Zynga Mobile Game to Be Adapted as TV Show by MGM
Remember, “xu” and “xi” are both valid — just hit that Triple Letter Score right
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Chelsea Handler, Kara Swisher Join San Francisco’s Power Women 2015 (Photos)
Comedian Chelsea Handler and journalist Kara Swisher joined more than 100 high powered women executives in entertainment and technology for TheWrap’s first Power Women breakfast in San Francisco on Friday
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Chelsea Handler Opens Up on E!, Netflix, Going Topless At Twitter HQ at the 2015 Power Women Breakfast in San Francisco
The comedian explains why $10 million a year couldn’t keep her at E! and why she won’t be ruled by “the Instagram Police”
