Posts Tagged ‘Zynga’

Zynga Paid $180.000.000 for OMGPOP

March 25th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Following the acquisition of OMGPOP, there has been a lot of speculation about the value of the deal. Analysts expected Zynga to pay between $150 and $250 million for the developer.

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Zynga Acquires OMGPOP

March 21st, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

It was only yesterday we popped up the rumour of Zynga being interested in acquiring OMGPOP and today… it happened! Zynga has pulled the DrawSomething developer on board.

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Zynga Interested in OMGPOP!?

March 20th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

With OMGPOP’s DrawSomething attracting 30 million downloads in just five weeks, the company put itself in the spotlights to be acquired. One of the companies that is rumoured to be interested in OMGPOP is Zynga.

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Zynga Acquires Wonderland Software

April 28th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Zynga has snapped up yet another mobile games studio. This time, the giant has swallowed Wonderland Software in it’s hunger for mobile projects.

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Zynga Acquires MarketZero

April 7th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Buying everything that’s successful works for Zynga. As so, the company has just bought MarketZero, a company that specializes in tracking poker players. What!? It’s not a gaming studio!?

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Zynga to Acquire Whereoscope

February 1st, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Zynga is about to swallow yet another company. This time they are swallowing Wheroscope, a startup focused at helping parents find back their kids. Why would they pick this?

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Zynga Acquires Area/Code

January 24th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Zynga has acquired Area/Code, a developer well known for it’s Drop 7 game. Zynga didn’t announce the sum of the acquisition but did say it will rebrand the studio into Zynga New York.

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Zynga Acquired Newtoy

December 3rd, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Zynga has acquired Newtoy, the studio that developed the For Friends app series on the App Store. Zynga was interested in acquiring Newtoy for its knowledge in social gaming.

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Zynga Worth more Than EA!?

October 27th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

According to data from SharesPost, Zynga is now worth $5.51 Billion, effectively beating EA from the throne as second most valuable gaming company world-wide.

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DeNa to Acquire ngmoco!?

October 8th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

According to Techcrunch, rumors say DeNa is considering the acquisition of competitor ngmoco for a sweet $400 million. If true, this move could make push DeNa into a leading position in social mobile games.