Zango to Jettison a Third of Staff
Wade Roush6/18/08
Zango, the Bellevue, WA-based adware maker that has also been known at various times as ePIPO, 180solutions, and Hotbar, plans to lay off 68 employees, or about one-third of its staff, according to reports in Online Media Daily and other publications. Frequently criticized for distributing software that causes unwanted pop-up ads to appear on PC users’ desktops, Zango is refocusing its business on a toolbar-driven casual gaming system called Platrium, and the layoffs are a result of that shift, Zango spokesman Steve Stratz said.
Wade Roush is Xconomy's chief correspondent and editor of Xconomy San Francisco. You can e-mail him at wroush@xconomy.com or follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/wroush.
