Zynga Hires Microsoft’s Don Mattrick As CEO

By  |  July 1, 2013
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Don Mattrick, the former head of Microsoft’s gaming and entertainment efforts, will become Zynga’s CEO, a press release indicates. The announcement came at on Monday afternoon. Sources had previously hinted that the deal could be finalized by the day’s end.

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    The move comes amid a series of bad publicity for Zynga, which has been dethroned as the top publisher of casino games.

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