Zynga Games on Yahoo – Zynga Poker News
Posted on May 31, 2010 by Shay Greenberg for Luckyroom.com
Texas Hold’em and other popular games built by Zynga most popular for Zynga Poker or Facebook Poker will soon be available on the Yahoo network! The two companies have reached an agreement which will integrate popular games Zynga (Texas Hold ‘Em, FarmVille and Mafia Wars) to the global network of Yahoo! The collaboration will be giving Zynga the opportunity to network more than 600 million people around the world and further enhance the offerings which are already focused on social gaming. The agreement comes shortly after the financial conflict between Facebook and Zynga which eventually resolved with a new five-year agreement between the two giants last week.
After the agreement with Yahoo; Zynga’s games are expected to launch on Yahoo network in the coming months. “Yahoo is focused in providing exciting experiences and social games are an integral part, “Says Hilary Schneider, vice president of Yahoo! America. “Zynga will bring an excellent social gaming experience on Yahoo. Yahoo, will continue its cooperation with other companies to bring innovation and experience of web users”. Mark Pinky, founder and CEO of Zynga said: With more than 35 million unique users participating in daily games, social games are evolving rapidly as a key source of fun in the world. Our partnership with Yahoo! Gives millions of new users the ability to connect with friends through the innovative games.”
About Zynga
Zynga is a casual game developer located in San Francisco, California, United States. The company develops and maintains browser-based flash operated games with no download requirements that work both stand-alone and as application widgets on social networking websites including Facebook, MySpace and soon on Yahoo. Zynga was founded in July 2007 by Mark Pincus, Michael Luxton, Eric Schiermeyer, Justin Waldron, Andrew Trader, and Steve Schoettler. They received USD $29 million in venture finance from several firms, led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers in July 2008, at which time they appointed former Electronic Arts Chief Creative Officer Bing Gordon to the board. At that time, they also bought YoVille, a large virtual world social network game. According to their website, as of December 2009, they had 60 million unique daily active users. More information under Zynga Games on Wikipedia
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