{"id":159,"date":"2013-07-30T08:12:57","date_gmt":"2013-07-30T05:12:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/?p=159"},"modified":"2013-07-30T08:12:57","modified_gmt":"2013-07-30T05:12:57","slug":"zynga-drops-u-s-online-gambling-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/zynga-drops-u-s-online-gambling-plans\/","title":{"rendered":"Zynga drops U.S. online gambling plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/zynga-300x168.png\" alt=\"zynga\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-160\" \/><\/p>\n<p>NEW YORK (CNNMoney)<br \/>\nZynga is dropping plans to pursue a license for online gambling in the United States, sending the company&#8217;s shares sharply lower.<br \/>\nChief Operations Officer David Ko told investors on a conference call late Thursday that Zynga would continue its online gambling efforts in the United Kingdom, but that it was&#8221;making the focus choice&#8221; not to pursue it for the United States.<\/p>\n<p>The company, which is best known for the online social media game FarmVille, announced in December that it had filed an application for a gaming license in Nevada. It also has been offering online gambling in the U.K. since April.<br \/>\nShares of Zynga (ZNGA) had been up 50% since the announcement of the Nevada license application through Thursday&#8217;s close. But the stock plunged 17% in early trading Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (CNNMoney) Zynga is dropping plans to pursue a license for online gambling in the United States, sending the company&#8217;s shares sharply lower. Chief Operations Officer David Ko told investors on a conference call late Thursday that Zynga would continue its online gambling efforts in the United Kingdom, but that it was&#8221;making the focus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"views":667,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":161,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions\/161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}