VR Startup Within Hires Former Disney, Zynga Execs

Edit Variety 01 Jul 2016
Within — the VR content and tech startup formerly known as Vrse — has hired former Disney exec Kevin Garrett Monroe as VP of legal and business affairs and Michael Cibula, formerly with game developer Zynga, to lead business development and finance. The hires by the L.A.-based company, co-founded by VR filmmaker Chris Milk, come after it announced $12.56 million... Read more » ... ....

Why Play CSR Racing 2? It's About the Cars.

Edit About.com 01 Jul 2016
But getting a demonstration of CSR2 from NaturalMotion and Zynga, along with spending some time with the game made it clearer than ever what the purpose of this and many similar games are – they're not about the racing ... That's certainly what Zynga and NaturalMotion are hoping for, and it's sure to be part of why people would consider ......

Zynga’s latest comeback strategy is a gorgeous mobile racing game

Edit The Verge 30 Jun 2016
Over the last few years Zynga has ... CSR Racing 2, a drag racing game from developer NaturalMotion, which was acquired by Zynga in 2014 ... And Zynga is......

Calling All Car Lovers! CSR Racing 2 Speeds onto iOS and Android (Zynga Inc)

Edit Public Technologies 30 Jun 2016
Zynga Inc) ... SAN FRANCISCO, June 30, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Zynga (Nasdaq.ZNGA), a leading social game developer, today announced the launch of CSR Racing 2 (CSR2), the next-generation sequel to the smash hit CSR Racing ... https.//zynga.box.com/s/7yd70czz8gqhawm8jyu3uh2rwx9hd1tf. About Zynga Inc ... Learn more about Zynga at http.//blog.zynga.com or follow us on Twitter and Facebook ... esmithcheng@zynga.com (650) 224-2462 ... ZYNGA INC ... Zynga Inc....

Facebook kicked Zynga to the curb, publishers are next

Edit Venture Beat 30 Jun 2016
In hindsight, Zynga’s business never really made sense ... Zynga rode Facebook to the top and the two grew dependent on one another. Then when the timing was right — when Facebook didn’t need Zynga or any other gaming company to prove it could make money — Facebook cut the cord ... Like the Zyngas before us, most publishers are far too dependent to quit cold turkey....

CSR Racing 2 and its ‘beyond console’ graphics launch on iOS and Android

Edit Venture Beat 30 Jun 2016
You could call Zynga’s latest release a drag — but that’s just because its all about racing another beastly car down the line for the win ... Zynga is beginning to find its footing in the $36.4 million mobile gaming market, and ......

Should Tech Have to Pay for San Francisco’s Homeless Problem?

Edit Newsweek 30 Jun 2016
Wednesday was supposed to be a day of reflection and awareness in San Francisco ... Two members of the Board of Supervisors, San Francisco’s 11-member legislative body, proposed the so-called "tech tax" on Tuesday ... Zynga CEO Mark Pincus tweeted, “Taxing tech companies will simply drive jobs out of SF. It’s solving a housing crisis by hurting an economy.” Zynga in February announced it will be selling its giant San Francisco headquarters ... ....

One of the biggest VC firms in the world just raised a $1.4 billion war chest to back the next Google

Edit Business Insider 30 Jun 2016
Google cofounder Larry Page and Sergey Brin. Silicon Valley venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins has raised $1.4 billion (£1 billion) to invest in technology startups, according to SEC filings published on Wednesday ... Google is now worth around $500 billion (£374 billion). It has also backed Amazon, AOL, Citrix, Zynga, and Sun Microsystems ... Loading video... ....

Why Facebook is so terrifying to media companies

Edit Business Insider 30 Jun 2016
Facebook is the most powerful media company the world has ever seen. It's also the most worrisome for traditional journalism companies because it has completely redefined "news." ... This is what people want ... News publishers who thought that Facebook was going to carve out a niche for them are in for the same kind of rude awakening that social gaming company Zynga experienced once Facebook users got bored with all that sheep throwing ... ....

Facebook to change news feed to focus on friends and family

Edit San Francisco Chronicle 29 Jun 2016
For years, Facebook has courted publishers of all sizes, asking them to depend more and more on the social media giant to expand their audiences ... Zynga was also hurt by other shifts in computing, as users moved from desktop computers to mobile devices ... > ....

Some San Francisco tech workers have to spend half their salary on rent if they live close to work

Edit Business Insider 28 Jun 2016
Too hot for its own good ... Companies that pay lower salaries, like Zynga, can find their employees doling out more than half their income to pay to leave near the office ... Here's how much RadPad calculated engineers need to shell out to live near their work.. RadPad ... ....

Snow wonder: CSUSM student a whiz in classroom and on board (California State University, San Marcos)

Edit Public Technologies 28 Jun 2016
(Source. California State University, San Marcos). Computer programming runs in Emily's family. Her father is a senior engineer for Zynga and her twin brother, Michael, is studying video game programming at the University of Utah. Her mother was also in the business on the music side and encouraged Emily to learn a variety of instruments (Emily plays the clarinet, guitar and piano) ... Her parents, however, have not ... I'm a hard worker ... (noodl....

5 reasons mobile apps still rule: The Conversational Economy, Part 2

Edit Venture Beat 28 Jun 2016
(This is Part 2 in a series on the Conversational Economy. Read Part 1 here.) ... Fragmentation stunts developer ecosystem development ... Also note Kik is missing from this analysis ... However, if the incentivized invites of Zynga/Farmville are any indicator — enabling social distribution is tricky, and developers will incentivize users to help their services grow in ways that may hurt the platform user experience without careful management ... 5 ... ....
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