At the time, the company had 2,000 employees. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to raise up to $1 billion in an initial public offering on July 1, 2011. In December 2010, Zynga's game CityVille surpassed FarmVille as its most popular game with over 61 million monthly active users and a base of over 16 million daily active users. In February 2010, Farmville had over 80 million players, and on May 18, 2010, Facebook and Zynga entered into a five-year relationship to expand the use of Facebook Credits in Zynga's games. On November 23, 2009, went live as Zynga's first stand-alone game. By August, Farmville was the first game on Facebook to reach 10 million daily active users. In June 2009, Zynga acquired MyMiniLife which built and launched FarmVille on Facebook. Soon after, the company opened its first external game studio in Baltimore, Zynga East, led by Brian Reynolds. Zynga became the Facebook app developer with the most monthly active users in April 2009, with 40 million people playing their games that month. It was the first game Facebook introduced on its social networking platform. Zynga's first game, Texas Hold'Em Poker, now known as Zynga Poker, was released on Facebook in July 2007. Zynga was named after Pincus' American bulldog 'Zinga', and uses an image of a bulldog as its logo. The company name changed to Zynga in July 2007. Zynga was founded in April 2007 by Mark Pincus, Eric Schiermeyer, Justin Waldron, Michael Luxton, Steve Schoettler, and Andrew Trader under the name Presidio Media. Īccording to Take-Two Interactive, about 10% of the world's population plays Zynga's games every month. Take-Two Interactive announced in January 2022 its intent to buy Zynga for $12.7 billion. Zynga began trading on NASDAQ on December 16, 2011, under the ticker ZNGA. In 2017, its most successful games were Zynga Poker and Words with Friends 2, with about 57 million games being played at any given moment and CSR Racing 2, the most popular racing game on mobile devices. As of August 2017, Zynga had thirty million monthly active users (MAU). Zynga launched FarmVille, on Facebook in June 2009, reaching ten million daily active users (DAU) within six weeks. Zynga states its mission as 'connecting the world through games'. The company primarily focuses on mobile and social networking platforms. It was founded in April 2007, with headquarters in San Mateo, California.

( / ˈ z ɪ ŋ ɡ ə/) is an American developer running social video game services.

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