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Don Mattrick Leaves Microsoft To Become CEO At Zynga

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the all-aboard-the-sinking-ship dept.

krkhan writes "It has been confirmed by Zynga that the head of Microsoft's Interactive Entertainment Business, Don Mattrick, is taking over as the new CEO. Mattrick joined Microsoft in 2007 and has led the business during much of the lifespan of Xbox 360, as well as the launch of Kinect and pre-launch of Xbox One. Zynga shares jumped 12% following the news."

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  1. Re:Did Zinga look at Nokia? by FuegoFuerte · · Score: 0, Troll

    Haven't tried one of their new phones then, I see? I just bought a Nokia 521 on T-Mobile a few days ago, and so far I love it. They might be behind, and yes, killing off Symbian as quickly as they did may have been a bad mistake, but I think they've carved out a decent niche with WP, and are very much still in the running. Awesome hardware running a decent OS (and the only one I've seen that doesn't look like Win95 puked icons on the screen), I really think Nokia could've made substantially worse decisions.