Friday, September 14, 2012
Zynga Game Left The retainer
United States - Shocks in Zynga management continues. In a nearly contiguous, one executive left maker the game FarmVille.
Before joining Zynga in August 2011, Karp was Executive Vice President at Electronic Arts (EA). Reportedly, Karp was then recruited by former EA executive John Schappert who first worked at Zynga.
This time it was Chief Marketing and Revenue Jeff Karp stating his resignation this week. Early work at Zynga Karp is quite short.
And now, as reported by Mashable, Tuesday (09/11/2012), Karp follow Schappert. Before Schappert, Aug. Chief Creative Officer Mike Verdu also left Zynga and started his own company.
Unfortunately, Schappert himself not long after deciding to leave the company is fronted Mark Pincus. Schappert resigned from his position as Chief Operating Officer of Zynga last month.
Besides Karp, another report that was launched VentureBeat says Allan Leinwand, who served Chief Technology Officer (CTO) Infrastructure up from Zynga and a CTO at a company called ServiceNow.
Another report says, Verdu making company Zynga games and become one of its investors. Zynga also lost two Vice President and General Manager behind CityVille game at the end of last month.
Zynga's stock price is now below $ 3 per share. Zynga also currently working to eliminate the dependence of Facebook by launching its own gaming site, Zynga.com.
Such as Facebook, Zynga is also trying to find ways to monetize the game on mobile devices.
Zynga executive departure following the deteriorating performance of the social networking giant game. Last July, the second-quarter financial reports are not encouraging Zynga lowered its stock price by 40 percent.
Meanwhile, the Game Developer Two Arrested .
Two seeded Czech game makers have to deal with the authorities. Therefore, they have proven to 'peek' military facility which will be copied to brought into the game.
Once caught, they admitted that they get the data plan will be used as a reference to make the game Arma III made by Bohemia Interactive.
Both developers are spying on military facilities in Greece by taking pictures and video in the area, but it is strictly forbidden to do.
Arma III is one of the military-themed game that is quite well known. The latest series of the game is scheduled to be shot in Lemnos, north Aegean Sea in Greece. Same place as both the game developer was arrested.
But whatever the reason, the two unnamed developers that it will still undergo legal proceedings on charges of espionage military facilities. As we quoted from my city, on Wednesday (11/09/2012).
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