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Because other companies don't announce news on Friday at 4:00pm...

Or because the White House doesn't make important news announcements on Christmas Eve when nobody's paying attention...

I don't think this is a Zynga dick-move. I think this is a typical company move to bury a non-flattering story.

I tend to agree, but Zynga doesn't have enough good karma stored up to get much sympathy on this.

The fact that other organizations also make dick moves does not negate this dick move.

Is it a 'dick move' that Apple releases their products at a time calculated to get maximum media exposure? Or that every other smart company in the World also times bad news?

There are many things one might accurately criticize Zynga for, but this is not one of them. If they hadn't done it this way investors would have yet another reason to sell the stock, it would be evidence the company is run by idiots.

Hiding information is worse than spreading information, yes.

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