Zango Lays Off A Third Of Current Workforce
By Spyware News – According to a recent press release by Zango, the famous adware company has recently terminated the employment of 68 out of the 200 plus people that comprise its total workforce. The lay offs were done as a means to streamline and narrow the company’s goals and focus, hot on the heels of the launch of their new Platrium offering, which is a casual gaming site that entered beta just last month.
Zango spokesperson Steve Stratz has denied rumors that the lay offs were a result of Zango going bankrupt, after their services were met with hostilities, particularly from anti-spyware activists who complain that Zango’s obstrusive pop-up serving software were popping up in computers of people who did not volunteer to download it. Additionally, just last year Zango has agree to pay $3 million in order to settle an FTC complaint pertaining to improper or dishonest installations. Another outcome of the fiasco is that Zango has been mandated by state laws to make sure that their software will not be installed without making sure that people have consented, and that they will closely monitor third party distributors in case they try to install the software discreetly.
Platrium, while still an ad server, works on a different way by making free games available to users who install their toolbar. Zango has stated that Platrium is 100% free of pop-up ads, and will instead use a custom “slider” ad, similar to an instant message notification both in terms of size and delivery mode. – www.spywarenews.org
