Yannick LeJacq

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Yannick LeJacq is a technology reporter for the International Business Times. His work has also appeared in Bit CreatureSalon, The Atlantic, and the Wall Street Journal.

Yannick LeJacq

Zynga Regains Facebook Prominence Amid Continuing Departures

Three weeks after Zynga launched its latest sim-style game "ChefVille" on Facebook -- the social media platform that Zynga itself blamed for most of its current financial woes -- the game developer is slowly crawling its way back to the top of the social gaming food chain, new data shows.

AOL's $600M Stock Buyback, Special Dividend

Internet company AOL Inc. (NYSE: AOL) announced plans Monday to return $1.1 billion to shareholders through a special dividend of $5.15 per share and also to buy back $600 million of stock under an accelerated stock-repurchase agreement with Barclays Bank PLC.

Wind Turbine Maker Vestas To Cut 1,400 More Workers

Vestas Wind Systems A/S, the western Denmark-based energy company and the world's largest maker of wind turbines, announced Wednesday that it is letting go of 1,400 workers - a 7 percent cut of its entire workforce.

Shell Plans At Least $1 Billion Investment In Chinese Shale Gas Per Year

Royal Dutch Shell announced plans to spend at least $1 billion a year exploiting China's supply of shale gas, Reuters reported. The news came from the energy firm's head executive in China, Lim Haw Kuang, who responded to Reuters' questions about the alleged $1 billion-a-year plan to invest in the potentially vast natural gas trove.

Chinese City Aims For $236B In New Investments

The northeastern Chinese city of Tianjin announced a four-year plan to invest 1.5 trillion yuan ($236 billion) to stimulate industrial growth, Bloomberg News reported Tuesday. The Communist Party's Tianjin Daily also reported that investments have been announced for 10 industries, including petrochemicals and aerospace.

Silicon Valley Is Dying - Yammer CEO

David Sacks took to Facebook over the weekend to air his grievances about the state of the revered San Franciso Bay Area long assumed to be the centerpiece for innovation within the tech industry, giving a gloomy prediction of the tech industry's future shortly after selling his own company to Microsoft.

Activision Co-Founder To Zynga: You 'Give The Casual Market A Bad Name'

David Crane, co-founder of Activison and creator of the legendary Atari 2600 game "Pitfall!" criticized Zynga for giving the "'casual' market a bad name" in a recent interview, showing once again the divisiveness of the social gaming giant's presence within the gaming and tech industry.

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