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During the last month, Zynga Inc has trailed the broader S&P 500 Index by more than 14 percentage points.

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Zynga Inc. closed its Dallas-area office, laying off 62 people, also cut 34 people in Austinng Zynga Inc., the maker of popular online games FarmVille and Words With Friends, cut 62 employees in Allen and 34 employees in Austin, according to mass layoff data released today by the Texas Workforce Commission.

Evercore Partners' price target suggests a potential downside of 11.35% from the company's current price.

Free. Mobile. Casual. Zynga. These words are likely to draw the ire or outright disgust of core gamers at an event like E3.

The game's popularity fell off shortly after Zynga bought Draw Something maker OMGPOP.

Security software company Symantec said Thursday that it is cutting jobs as part of a reorganization, the third large Silicon Valley technology company to announce layoffs in less than a month.

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's stock had its "hold" rating restated by TheStreet in a research note issued on Wednesday, Stock Ratings Network.com reports.

Equity Profile Report expands its NASDAQ Decliners Weekly Watch List adding Zynga, Inc. and JDS Uniphase Corporation .

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At the beginning of this week, Zynga laid off over 500 employees and closed three of its offices, New York, Los Angeles and Dallas, in an effort to salvage what they can of the company and focus on the mobile side of the company.

It's often been said that the gaming industry is full of hit or miss businesses.

Zynga is an enigma wrapped in a mystery. Once again, the stock price fell this week below the value of its assets on news that the company was laying off workers from OMGPOP as a cost-cutting measure.

Is replacing CEO Mark Pincus the way for Zynga to go? Whether or not investors believe that's true, Pincus is unlikely to disappear any time soon, owing to the fact he controls so much of the company's movements.

Colleen Taylor is based in San Francisco where she is a reporter for TechCrunch and TechCrunch TV.

Social gaming company Zynga notified the state today that it plans to lay off eight employees at its office in Eugene amid a broader cutback at the San Francisco company.