{"id":3178,"date":"2013-07-26T08:09:12","date_gmt":"2013-07-26T12:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/?p=3178"},"modified":"2013-07-26T08:09:12","modified_gmt":"2013-07-26T12:09:12","slug":"zynga-craps-out-plan-to-bag-gambling-in-us-sinks-stock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2013\/07\/26\/zynga-craps-out-plan-to-bag-gambling-in-us-sinks-stock\/","title":{"rendered":"Zynga craps out: Plan to bag gambling in US sinks stock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zynga\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s new CEO is not a gambling man.<br \/>\nDon Mattrick, the former Microsoft Xbox executive who replaced founder Mark Pincus this month, said the maker of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Farmville\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Zynga Poker\u00e2\u20ac\u009d would ditch its pursuit of real-money gambling in the US.<br \/>\nSome investors were hoping that a real betting business&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>via NY Post: Business http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/p\/news\/business\/zynga_craps_out_lkZ4pvch1BwrJTzbj1M0cM?utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_content=<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zynga\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s new CEO is not a gambling man. Don Mattrick, the former Microsoft Xbox executive who replaced founder Mark Pincus this month, said the maker of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Farmville\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Zynga Poker\u00e2\u20ac\u009d would ditch its pursuit of real-money gambling in the US. Some investors were hoping that a real betting business&#8230; via NY Post: Business http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/p\/news\/business\/zynga_craps_out_lkZ4pvch1BwrJTzbj1M0cM?utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_content=<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[1031,6,1032,1033],"class_list":["post-3178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-feedly","tag-ifttt","tag-recently-read","tag-saved-for-later"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2skW4-Pg","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}