FanDuel laying off staff in Florida as it reduces focus on non-core product

Daily fantasy sports operator FanDuel is laying off staff at its Florida office as the company circles the financial wagons.

On Wednesday, multiple Florida media outlets reported that FanDuel was laying off 55 employees at its Maitland office effective April 10. The news follows last month’s reports that FanDuel was cutting payroll at its New York headquarters.

FanDuel issued a statement saying the cuts would target “a group of developers in the Orlando office that were focused on R&D for ancillary games and applications that we will not be investing in moving forward.”

The announcement comes less than a year after FanDuel rode to the rescue of 38 Orlando-based developers who’d been let go by social gamers Zynga after the latter firm decided to shed its nascent Zynga Sports 365 franchise.