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ACQUISITION 
FDN Database Reference:  F231109-328
 
Acquirer:  Zynga
ACQ Web:  http://www.zynga.com
Other Web Links: Blog,  Twitter
Location:  USA, San Francisco, CA
Region:  North America
Description:  Heavily invested in social gaming company, Zynga was founded in July 2007. Best known games are “FarmVille” and “Mafia Wars”.
Category:  Social Gaming
Contact 1:  Mark Pincus, Founder and CEO
Contact 2:  Andrew Trader, co-founder
 
Vendor:  Serious Company
Vendor Web:  http://www.seriousbusiness.com
Location:  USA, San Francisco, CA
Region:  North America
Description:  Social games developer for the Facebook platform. Headquartered in San Francisco, and backed by Lightspeed Venture Partners, the company combines unique game concepts with rigorous analysis to create highly social games. The flagship game is Friends for Sale! and is played by over 6,000,000 people.
Category: Social Games
Contact 1:  siqi chen, founder and ceo
Contact 2:  alex le, founder and cto
Contact 3:  ryan j. ferrier, coo
 
Aprox. Value:  Undisclosed
 
Details:  Zynga has agreed to acquire Serious Company. Both are social games developers on Facebook. Zynga has so far raised a huge $219,000 in funding. Analysts expect the sector to produce a number of IPOs this year and have speculated Zynga could raise more than $1 billion in an IPO.
 
Link: Reuters
  
Previous reports about Zynga on FusionDigiNet

• Social game firm Zynga raises $180M from Russian investor DST – 16th December 2009
• Social gaming company Zynga raises $15.18M – 17th November 2009