Zynga

American social game developer

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June 2023 During FTC v. Microsoft trial, it was disclosed that Microsoft had considered purchasing Zynga before Take-Two's acquisition.
2022 Zynga relocated its headquarters to San Mateo, California.
November 2022 Zynga acquires Popcore, a German mobile game developer.
September 2022 Zynga acquires Storemaven, an Israeli mobile app marketing platform.
May 23 2022 Take-Two Interactive completed acquisition of Zynga.
February 2022 Zynga acquires NanoTribe, a German game development studio.
January 10 2022 Take-Two Interactive announced intention to acquire Zynga for $12.7 billion.
August 2021 Zynga acquires StarLark, a Chinese game developer, for $525 million, gaining the game Golf Rival.
May 2021 Zynga purchases Chartboost, a mobile advertising platform, for $250 million.
March 2021 Zynga acquires Echtra Games, a San Francisco-based game development studio, for $21.1 million.
October 2020 Zynga buys Rollic, a Turkish mobile game developer, for $180 million, adding Go Knots 3D and Tangle Master 3D to its portfolio.
June 2020 Zynga acquires Turkish mobile game company Peak for $1.8 billion, including the game Toy Blast.
December 2019 Have I Been Pwned? confirmed that over 173 million Zynga accounts were affected by the data breach, expanding on the initial breach report from September.
September 2019 A hacker named Gnosticplayers claimed to have breached Zynga's Words with Friends database, accessing 218 million player accounts including personal information like names, emails, login IDs, and hashed passwords.
December 2018 Zynga purchases Finnish mobile game developer Small Giant Games for $560 million, acquiring the game Empires & Puzzles.
May 2018 Zynga acquires Gram Games, a UK-based mobile game developer, for $250 million, focusing on 'Merge' games.
January 3 2018 Take-Two Interactive announced its intent to acquire Zynga.
March 7 2016 Frank Gibeau took over as CEO, replacing Mark Pincus.
April 2014 Mark Pincus stepped down from chief product officer role, remained chairman of the board.
January 2014 Announced layoff of 314 workers (15% of workforce).
July 2013 Hired Don Mattrick as new CEO, with Mark Pincus remaining as chairman and chief product officer.
July 25 2013 Announced they would not pursue real money game production in the US.
June 3 2013 Announced layoffs of 520 employees (18% of workforce) and closed offices in New York, Los Angeles, and Dallas.
2012 Zynga purchased the entire office building with approximately 407,000 square feet of total space for $228 million.
June 26 2012 Announced 'Zynga With Friends' network and Zynga API at Zynga Unleashed conference.
December 16 2011 Zynga began trading on NASDAQ under the ticker ZNGA.
July 1 2011 Filed with SEC to raise up to $1 billion in initial public offering.
2010 Zynga signed a rental agreement for 270,000 square feet of office space at the former Sega offices location.
May 18 2010 Entered a five-year relationship with Facebook to expand use of Facebook Credits in Zynga's games.

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