Posts Tagged ‘Zynga’

Zynga Acquires Dextrose

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

Zynga has made a new acquisition. This time, the company acquired Dextrose, an online gaming company based in Frankfurt, Germany. It is the first acquisition in Europe.

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Digital Chocolate Sues Zynga over Maffia Wars IP

August 26th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Brand Licensing | No Comments »

Digital Chocolate has announced that the company will sue Zynga over the use of the name Maffia Wars. According to DC, Zynga claimed the trademark while DC’s game was already out under the same name.

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Zynga Acquires Conduit Labs

August 24th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Zynga has acquired Conduit Labs, a developer that started in popstar based online games back in 2007. The studio will be rebranded to Zynga Boston, its seventh studio.

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Zynga Acquires Unoh

August 6th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Zynga has announced the acquisition of Japanese mobile and social game developer Unoh in order to drive expansion into Asia and mainly Japan.

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Google Invests in Zynga – The Start of Google Games?

July 12th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | 1 Comment »

TechCrunch reports that Google has invested $100+ Million in Zynga, a developer of mobile and online games. This is expected to be a strategic investment to create Google Games.

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OpenFeint X to Introduce new Revenue Streams

February 18th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

OpenFeint is one of the more popular social gaming platforms on the iPhone and iPod Touch. Now, the company behind it is launching a new iteration aimed at Free-To-Play or Freemium developers.