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Zynga claims employee stole sensitive information before jumping ship
By mike on News from www.gamesradar.com
Zynga's had some trouble holding onto executives recently, and the social gaming company has elected to strike back at one who decided to join a competitor. Alan Patmore, the former general manager of Zynga's CityVille Facebook game, is being sued for allegedly stealing sensitive information from the company to use at his next job, as reported by AllThingsD.
Patmore left Zynga in August to become vice president of product at rival social gaming company Kixeye. Zynga claims he backed up 760 pages of documents which could be used to “improve a competitor’s internal understanding and know-how of core game mechanics and monetization techniques, its execution, and ultimately its market standing to compete more effectively with Zynga" to a personal Dropbox account before departing.
Patmore left Zynga in August to become vice president of product at rival social gaming company Kixeye. Zynga claims he backed up 760 pages of documents which could be used to “improve a competitor’s internal understanding and know-how of core game mechanics and monetization techniques, its execution, and ultimately its market standing to compete more effectively with Zynga" to a personal Dropbox account before departing.
