Ingrid Lunden
Dec 9, 2010 11:37 AM
Zynga, the darling of online social games with 45 million daily active users, has been a relatively late entrant in the mobile space, with its games apps focussed mainly around one platform, Apple’s iOS. With last week’s acquisition of Newtoy, now renamed Zynga With Friends, it is stepping up what…
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Joseph Tartakoff
Oct 4, 2010 12:29 PM
David Ko, the Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) SVP who left last week as part of an executive exodus, is joining Zynga as the social gaming giant’s head of mobile. At Yahoo, Ko most recently led all of the company’s content sites in North America, as well as Yahoo’s mobile initiatives. He…
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Tricia Duryee
Mar 6, 2009 6:15 PM
A week ago, Marco Boerries, the head of Yahoo’s Connected Life, stepped down after four years at the company. Moving up to fill his shoes is David Ko, SVP of Connected Life, marking his second promotion in the past six months. In September, Ko was named SVP of Mobile to…
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Staci D. Kramer
Feb 26, 2009 2:50 PM
One question has been answered following the departure of longtime Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) mobile chief Marco Boerries: David Ko is being promoted to global head of Yahoo Mobile, responsible for the mobile business, strategy and monetization teams for Yahoo. Ko had been SVP, Yahoo Mobile, a role that he had…
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