This year, Zynga expects to have raised $20 million through in-game donations from players. It's also investing in games that promote learning and health.

Gaming developer Zynga, known for its immensely popular social network games such as FarmVille and Mafia Wars, recently laid off 18 percent of its workforce, or 520 workers -- another sign of ...

Zynga is betting the farm on mobile devices. Once the undisputed king of Facebook-based social games like "FarmVille," the company has teetered on the brink of irrelevance as mobile-based ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Not long ago, online games company Zynga looked on pace to unseat much bigger, well-established rivals as it rode the popularity of “FarmVille,” the clicking game of virtual ...

FarmVille has become one of Zynga's most popular online social games, and today the company is releasing a new version for digital farming addicts -- FarmVille 2.

Three years after its launch, Zynga‘s FarmVille social game has 3.2 million daily active users. That’s just a tenth of its peak. But Zynga is still betting that there’s a farmer in all of us ...

Zynga, which counts “Farmville” and “Words with Friends” among its games, said in June that it would cut 18 percent of its staff and close some offices to cut expenses.

Zynga files for IPO. FarmVille and Mafia Wars maker proposes initial public offering to SEC; number of shares and price range to be determined. Jul 1, 2011 1:54pm. Zynga IPO due by next week - Report.

While other games had tried many of the same tactics — Mafia Wars was Zynga’s top hit at the time — FarmVille was the first to become a mainstream phenomenon. Mr.

SAN FRANCISCO - FarmVille was the game that put social game maker Zynga on the map. Can FarmVille2 keep Zynga from falling off of it? That was the big question as the San Francisco social game ...

FarmVille maker Zynga is trading in its rural farmland for a dee-luxe apartment in the sky. No, FarmVille’s not going anywhere, but the social game studio recently announced a beta version of a ...

Zynga, the online game maker behind "FarmVille" and other popular Facebook pastimes, is going public. Zynga Inc. hopes to raise up to $1 billion in an initial public offering. About 230 million ...