Zynga's online gambling COO has left the company

Newsbrief: Two years after Zynga added Maytal Ginzburg Olsha as its chief operating officer of new markets, the online gambling veteran has left the social games company. Maytal Ginzburg Olsha previously served as the SVP of corporate and regulated markets for real-money gambling site 888.com. Zynga added Olsha in a bid to boost its real-money gambling business. Now VentureBeat has discovered that Olsha left Zynga last month for a new start-up. It's hardly surprising that she has left, given that Zynga recently decided that it was moving away from its gambling plans in favor of focusing more on free-to-play social games again.