David Ko

Type: Person

Name: David Ko

First reported Jun 05 2013 - Updated Jun 05 2013 - 1 reports

Zynga Kills OMGPOP After Buying It For $200 Million

Zynga's gargantuan purchase of OMGPOP, that company that made briefly mega-popular Draw Something, will now be an icon of tech collapse. Only slightly over a year after impulse-spending $200 million on the small company, Zynga is killing it.I learned ... [Published Forbes.com - Jun 05 2013]

Entities: OMGPOP, Zynga Game Network Inc, David Ko, Kara Swisher, Farmville

First reported Jun 04 2013 - Updated Jun 05 2013 - 1 reports

Zynga might close down OMGPOP

Gaming giant, Zynga might be planning to shut down OMGPOP game studio, which is known for its popular ‘Draw Something’ mobile game.Zynga had acquired OMGPOP gaming studio in the previous year for $180 million at a time when the Draw Something game had ... [Published Topnews.in - Jun 04 2013]

Entities: OMGPOP, Zynga Game Network Inc, David Ko, Gaming

First reported Jun 03 2013 - Updated Jun 03 2013 - 1 reports

Confirmed: Zynga laying off 520 employees as it restructures to focus on mobile

[ Update : Zynga confirmed the announcement in a blog post .]Zynga is reportedly lying off 18 percent of its employees, or 520 people, and closing its New York, Dallas and Los Angeles offices, according to AllThingsD .The move is affecting all parts of ... [Published Venturebeat - Jun 03 2013]

Entities: Zynga Game Network Inc, Layoffs, Social Gaming, Gaming, Mobile Games

First reported Apr 25 2013 - Updated Apr 25 2013 - 1 reports

Aiming for better profits, Zynga cuts even deeper into once-beloved games (interview)

David Ko, the No. 2 executive at Zynga , might not be really popular right now. Yesterday, during Zynga’s earnings call, he announced that the social-game company had eked out a profit, but it is canceling four existing games . It has also ... [Published Venturebeat - Apr 25 2013]

Entities: Zynga Game Network Inc, David Ko, Farmville

First reported Apr 24 2013 - Updated Apr 25 2013 - 2 reports

Zynga Plans To Accelerate Its Launch Cycle, Says New Games Won't Offset Declines In Q2

Zynga hasn’t been releasing as many new titles in recent months, but things are about to pick up again, executives said during ttodaye conference call discussing the company’s first quarter earnings report . In fact, they said they’re launching a big ... [Published TechCrunch - Apr 24 2013]

Entities: Zynga Game Network Inc, Farmville, David Ko, Mark Pincus

First reported Apr 02 2013 - Updated Apr 03 2013 - 2 reports

'Draw Something' Head Leaves Zynga 1 Year After Selling Company

Zynga is parting ways with another big name employee. Dan Porter, the man who founded OMGPOP, the gaming company behind the popular Pictionary-style game Draw Something, is leaving Zynga one year after it bought his company for $180 million. ... [Published Mashable! - Apr 02 2013]

Entities: Zynga Game Network Inc, OMGPOP, David Ko

First reported Mar 25 2013 - Updated Mar 25 2013 - 1 reports

Zynga Snags Analyst to be VP of Finance

After a string of high-level departures in 2012, it looks like Zynga is firming back up its executive ranks. The gaming company looks to have snapped up Atul Bagga, an analyst at Lazard Capital Markets, to be the new VP of finance at Zynga, according ... [Published All Things Digital - Mar 25 2013]

Entities: Zynga Game Network Inc, University of Bombay, Barry Cottle

First reported Mar 24 2013 - Updated Mar 24 2013 - 1 reports

David Ko sees mobile as critical for Zynga’s comeback in 2013 (interview)

Mobile gaming is perhaps the most strategic market in gaming now, and David Ko, chief operations officer of Zynga and No. 2 in command next to chief executive Mark Pincus, knows it. Ko recently made the tough calls of shutting down Zynga’s ... [Published Venturebeat - Mar 24 2013]

Entities: Zynga Game Network Inc, David Ko, Farmville

First reported Feb 25 2013 - Updated Feb 26 2013 - 4 reports

Zynga Closing Its Baltimore Studio, Other Locations Being Consolidated

I think Zynga learned its lesson about studio closures after it tried to sneakily layoff over 100 employees during an Apple event. Now the company is being more open about its closures and layoffs with the latest round affecting many of its operations ... [Published WebProNews - Feb 25 2013]

Entities: Zynga Game Network Inc, Baltimore (Maryland, United States), Gambling, Layoffs, Austin

First reported Feb 25 2013 - Updated Feb 25 2013 - 1 reports

Zynga to Shutter More Offices, Lay Off Some Workers

Zynga plans to close a handful of offices in an attempt to better consolidate its real estate, the company announced on Monday. The changes will close an office in New York, two in Texas, and one in Baltimore, Md. However, employees at three of ... [Published All Things Digital - Feb 25 2013]

Entities: Zynga Game Network Inc, Baltimore (Maryland, United States), Workers

First reported Feb 05 2013 - Updated Feb 06 2013 - 3 reports

Zynga COO David Ko Emphasizes “Discipline” For Future Acquisitions

A year ago, fresh off raising $1 billion from an IPO and the $180 million acquisition of red-hot gaming company OMGPOP , Zynga’s Mark Pincus did an interview with talk of doing “a few” OMGPOP-sized deals in the next few years. But after a tough ... [Published TechCrunch - Feb 06 2013]

Entities: Zynga Game Network Inc, David Ko, Acquisition, Mark Pincus

First reported Feb 05 2013 - Updated Feb 05 2013 - 1 reports

Liveblog: Zynga's Q4 Earnings

Zynga still has a very long way to go, but today investors like what they are seeing. In after-hours trading, the stock is up 5 percent to $2.88 a share. The fourth-quarter and year-end results provide a little relief to the social games company, ... [Published All Things Digital - Feb 05 2013]

Entities: Zynga Game Network Inc, David Ko, Mark Pincus

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Zynga CIO Chrapaty jumps ship, becomes cloud-st... [Published GigaOM - Mar 25 2013]
Zynga Snags Analyst to be VP of Finance [Published All Things Digital - Mar 25 2013]
David Ko sees mobile as critical for Zynga’s co... [Published Venturebeat - Mar 24 2013]
Zynga Closing Its Baltimore Studio, Other Locat... [Published WebProNews - Feb 25 2013]
Zynga to Shutter More Offices, Lay Off Some Wor... [Published All Things Digital - Feb 25 2013]
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Zynga's Wake: Does The Venture Model Make Sense... [Published TechCrunch - Jun 11 2013] Just about eight weeks ago or so, I was on a call with Zynga’s COO David Ko following the company’s first quarter earnings report . Zynga was trying to manage expectations for the coming two quarters by saying it had paused its game slate to re-evaluate ...
Zynga's Wake: Does The Venture Model Make Sense... [Published TechCrunch Europe - Jun 11 2013] Just about eight weeks ago or so, I was on a call with Zynga’s COO David Ko following the company’s first quarter earnings report . Zynga was trying to manage expectations for the coming two quarters by saying it had paused its game slate to re-evaluate ...
Zynga’s stock dives 12 percent after layoffs [Published Venturebeat - Jun 03 2013] After laying off 18 percent of its employees, or 520 people, Zynga saw its stock price fall 12 percent to $2.99 a share.Zynga’s stock was halted after the news broke around 11:35 am Pacific time. But it fell further when it resumed. In after-hours trading, ...
Zynga’s stock dives 12 percent after layoffs [Published Venturebeat - Jun 03 2013] After laying off 18 percent of its employees, or 520 people, Zynga saw its stock price fall 12 percent to $2.99 a share. Zynga’s stock was halted after the news broke around 11:35 am Pacific time. But it fell further when it resumed. In after-hours ...
Confirmed: Zynga laying off 520 employees as it... [Published Venturebeat - Jun 03 2013] [ Update : Zynga confirmed the announcement in a blog post .]Zynga is reportedly lying off 18 percent of its employees, or 520 people, and closing its New York, Dallas and Los Angeles offices, according to AllThingsD .The move is affecting all parts of ...

Press Releases

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Zynga to Present at the Goldman Sachs Technolog... [Published GlobeNewswire: Advertising News - Feb 01 2013]