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Here Come the First D10 Speakers: New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Entrepreneur Sean Parker, Zynga’s Mark Pincus and More on the Red Hot Seat

Kara Swisher in D10 on March 9 at 10:40 am PT

Speakers? We got your speakers right here.

Exclusive: Zynga’s Van Natta Moves to Strategic Adviser; Feld Off Board, Paul In

Kara Swisher in News on November 17, 2011 at 10:30 am PT

Big changes at the online social gaming phenom as it gets ready to go public.

Zynga's Mark Pincus Talks About Big Funding, "Offer Ad" Controversies and More!

Kara Swisher in News on December 18, 2009 at 3:32 am PT

Just days after selling $180 million in private stock to a group of investors, including Facebook investor Digital Sky Technologies of Russia, Zynga’s Mark Pincus came to visit the BoomTown Worldwide HQ for a video interview. Zynga, the San Francisco-based social-gaming company, took the money, Pincus explained to me, so it would not have to do what everyone thought it was set to do soon: Go public.

Games People Play: Zynga's Mark Pincus Speaks!

Kara Swisher in News on May 13, 2008 at 12:15 pm PT

Since I posted an interview with Social Gaming Network’s Shervin Pishevar today on the announcement of his $15 million funding, it seems only sporting to post this lively video interview I also did with his main competitor, Mark Pincus of Zynga, recently too. Zynga, named after Pincus’s dog, is one of the two main social-gaming networks that are competing for audience by offering highly interactive games of all kinds. Its aim is to be more engaging and create a series of addictive games that users will return to again and again.