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Table of Contents
Employees
Our future success depends upon the continued service of our key technical and management personnel and upon our ability to continue to attract and retain
qualified employees, particularly our senior management team and highly skilled game designers, product managers and engineers. We currently have favorable
employee relations, but the competition for technical personnel is intense, and the loss of key employees or the inability to hire such employees when needed could
have a material adverse impact on our business and financial condition. As of December 31, 2015, we had 1,669 full-time employees.
Available Information
Our website is located at www.zynga.com and our investor relations website is located at http://investor.zynga.com. The following filings are available
through our investor relations website after we file them with the SEC: Annual Reports on Form 10-K, Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, Current Reports on Form
8-K and our Proxy Statements for our annual meetings of stockholders. These filings are also available for download free of charge on our investor relations
website. Further, a copy of this Annual Report on Form 10-K is located at the SEC’s Public Reference Room at 100 F Street, NE, Washington, D.C. 20549.
Information on the operation of the Public Reference Room can be obtained by calling the SEC at 1-800-SEC-0330.
We webcast our earnings calls and certain events we participate in or host with members of the investment community on our investor relations website.
Additionally, we provide notifications of news or announcements regarding our financial performance, including SEC filings, investor events, press and earnings
releases as part of our investor relations website. Investors and others can receive notifications of new information posted on our investor relations website in real
time by signing up for email alerts and RSS feeds. Further corporate governance information, including our certificate of incorporation, bylaws, governance
guidelines, board committee charters, and code of conduct, is also available on our investor relations website under the heading “Corporate Governance.” The
contents of our websites are not incorporated by reference into this Annual Report on Form 10-K or in any other report or document we file with the SEC, and any
references to our websites are intended to be inactive textual references only.
ITEM 1A. RISK FACTORS
We have identified the following risks and uncertainties that may have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition or results of operations.
The risks described below are not the only ones we face. Additional risks not presently known to us or that we currently believe are not material may also
significantly impair our business operations. Our business could be harmed by any of these risks. The trading price of our Class A common stock could decline due
to any of these risks, and you may lose all or part of your investment. In assessing these risks, you should also refer to the other information contained in this
Annual Report on Form 10-K, including our consolidated financial statements and related notes.
We have marked with an asterisk (*) those risks described below that reflect changes from, or additions to, the risks described in our Quarterly Report on
Form 10-Q for the quarter-ended September 30, 2015.
Risks Related to Our Business and Industry
Ourbusinesswillsufferifweareunabletocontinuetodevelopsuccessfulgamesformobileplatforms,successfullymonetizemobilegames,orsuccessfully
forecastmobilelaunchesand/ormonetization.*
Our business depends on developing and publishing mobile games that consumers will download and spend time and money playing. We have devoted and
we expect to continue to devote substantial resources to the research, development, analytics and marketing of our mobile games, however we cannot guarantee
that we will continue to develop games that appeal to players or advertisers. We are also in the process of executing plans to succeed as a mobile first company,
which includes the optimization of our live games, development and launch
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