Saturday, September 3, 2011

History Of Zynga Inc The Social Network Games

Zynga is the social network game located in San Francisco, California, United States. Browser-based game development company that works both independently and as a widget application on the social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace.

Zynga was founded in July 2007 by Mark Pincus, Michael Luxton, Eric Schiermeyer, Justin Waldron, Andrew Trader, and Steve Schoettler. They receive USD $ 29 million as venture capital from several companies, led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers in July 2008. At that time, they also acquired YoVille, the largest social networking game at that time. And recorded in 2009, they have 60 million active users a day.

On June 3, 2010, Zynga acquire Challenge Games. With the acquisition of Dextrose, there is now a company Zynga in Germany, which is the company's first expansion into Europe, and Zynga now has a total of 13 studios worldwide, including offices in Sunnyvale, Los Gatos, Los Angeles, Boston, Baltimore, Bangalore, Beijing, and Tokyo. On October 5, 2010 Bonfire Studios was acquired by Zynga. This makes Bonfire Studios renamed Zynga Zynga Dallas and now has more than 1300 employees worldwide. And on December 2, 2010, Zynga announced that it has acquired Texas-based developer of mobile games named Newtoy, developer of the game "Words with Friends" became Zynga With Friends. In December 2010, Zynga with the game beyond Farmville CityVillenya as the most popular games with 5 million monthly users and Zynga has acquired New York's basic game developer Area / Code, now renamed the New York Zynga.



The company Zynga not always get success in every game, some game on Facebook in disabling because minimya fans, such as "Fashion Wars" and others. Little, ane pengen quoting words from Arie de Geus, "A company is essentially also a creature alive. Because he lived so he was born, sick, old and may die like other woods living creatures. If treatment is good then he can live long . "

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