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King.com Rebrands Itself as “King”

Casual game publisher King.com says it’s changing its name to King, underscoring the importance of mobile and social game play to the 10-year-old company. Promotions for King’s mobile and Facebook hit Candy Crush Saga have been unavoidable at this years Game Developers Conference, but CEO Riccardo Zacconi said only a tiny minority of the company’s 150 Web titles have been ported to other platforms so far. However, more games for those destinations are on the way, Zacconi said. King has drawn 108 million players into its network, according to a press release.

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I think the NSA has a job to do and we need the NSA. But as (physicist) Robert Oppenheimer said, “When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and argue about what to do about it only after you’ve had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb.”

— Phil Zimmerman, PGP inventor and Silent Circle co-founder, in an interview with Om Malik