Words With Friends (game)

Zynga closes Timonium video game studio in broader consolidation

2013-02-25 16:00:00

Zynga, the video game maker best known for FarmVille and Words With Friends, has closed its Timonium office as part of a broader corporate consolidation, company officials said Monday. The company also made changes at three other offices, closing and...

Phelps, Maryland's Olympians welcomed home

2012-09-10 16:54:00

Arriving aboard the Pride of Baltimore II and hailed by a cannon blast from the Constellation, Michael Phelps and Maryland's other Olympic athletes were celebrated in true local style Monday afternoon by elected officials and an Inner Harbor crowd. "I...

Michael Phelps doesn't want your Words With Friends request

2012-06-25 13:49:00

For a few moments this weekend, the world thought they had a chance to go head to head with Michael Phelps -- on Words With Friends, that is. The Olympian accidentally revealed his screen name for the game, sending it out to his nearly 200,000 Twitter...

Essay: Social gaming for the anti-social

2012-04-18 10:55:00

This is a quandary about the future of video games, but it also has a lot to do with text messages, phone calls, headsets and millennials.� The backlash to the “Facebook Age” cries out for more human connection, more “real”...

Introducing Game Cache: Press Start to play

2012-02-17 07:18:00

“You can learn more about a person in an hour of playing 'Call of Duty' than in a year of conversation.” -Plato, paraphrased Hello, fellow gamers. We don’t know each other yet, but I need to ask: Will you co-op with me? You see, I want...

Why can't Alec, Leisha, Kevin and Gerard fly the friendly skies?

2011-12-07 09:38:00

Note to airlines: Can you please stop kicking celebrities off your planes? Alec Baldwin is the latest in a string of high-profile kerfuffles based on what to me - person who was not there - seems some very thin reasoning. And then there's: -Country...

Silicon Valley's unlikely new favorite cause: Gov. Christie

2013-05-19 01:54:03

The hottest new trend in Silicon Valley isn't inventing a gadget, developing an app, or investing in an IPO. It's giving to the governor of New Jersey. Gov. Christie has collected $289,150 from those involved in California's technology industry, an...

Mother knows best

2013-05-11 21:53:00

No one ever threatened me with my mom coming home. No one ever said, "You just wait until your mom gets home. You'll be sorry then." Mom was much too delicate for that. She had dark hair and ivory skin, long perfectly polished oval nails, a soft...

Brother's impending move worries 'big sis'

2013-05-01 00:00:00

Dear Amy: My mother is planning to move to a state far from the one in which we have lived since I was a preteen. She is moving with my younger brother, "Barney." He is 12, and I am 21. I want to go with them so my brother and I don't grow apart as my...

Zynga reports fewer players of its online games, shares drop

2013-04-24 15:45:05

(Repeats for wider subscribers) By Gerry Shih SAN FRANCISCO, April 24 (Reuters) - Zynga said on Wednesday the number of people playing its online games dropped dramatically in the first quarter, a development that overshadowed better-than-expected...

Zynga reporta menos usuarios de sus juegos en lÃnea, acciones caen

2013-04-24 16:23:02

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - El desarrollador de juegos en internet Zynga Inc dijo el miércoles que la cantidad de personas que usan sus aplicaciones cayó dramáticamente en el primer trimestre, lo que opacó sus cifras de ingresos mejores a lo esperado...

Zynga quarterly revenue tops estimates, but down from year-ago

2013-04-24 13:18:03

SAN FRANCISCO, April 24 (Reuters) - Zynga Inc reported first-quarter revenue of $263.6 million on Tuesday, down 18 percent from the year-ago quarter but above Wall Street's depressed expectations as the online game maker wrung more sales out of its...

Words With Friends. Believe it or not Phelps is a big fan of the game. Recently he accidentally tweeted out his account name and after being flooded with requests to play, he had to delete it.

2012-08-08 00:00:00

Absurdly accomplished, Kevin Chou has been an investment bank analyst at Deutsche Bank, a Silicon Valley venture capitalist at Canaan Partners and the CEO of a rare species of startup company, namely, a profitable one -- all before he turned 30.

2011-12-28 11:16:52