Social gaming company Zynga announced today that it has acquired OMGPOP. OMGPOP is the startup behind the popular social game ?Draw Something,? which has 35 million downloads. OMGPOP has 35 other titles as well. OMGPOP has raised $16.6 million from Baseline Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners, Rho Ventures, and Spark Capital, according to Crunchbase. TechCrunch earlier ...

pubblicato il: 21/03/2012 - 20:25

Zynga this morning filed with the SEC for a $400 million stock offering, with all of the stock to be sold by current shareholders. The social gaming company does not specifically say which holders intend to sell shares in the offering. The company?s largest holders include CEO Mark Pincus and a host of institutional investors, ...

pubblicato il: 14/03/2012 - 18:54

Through this offering, Zynga aims to provide liquidity to some of its existing shareholders and prevent the company's stock price from dipping when the 6 month lockup period for employees expires in May.

pubblicato il: 15/03/2012 - 20:23

? "OMG! A big Zynga group hug to OMGPOP, talented creators of Draw Something," tweeted social games titan Zynga Wednesday. Apparently, in this universe, a "big Zynga group hug" translates to $180 million, the price that All Things D claims Zynga paid to acquire the makers of the most popular mobile Facebook app. "Draw Something" ...

pubblicato il: 21/03/2012 - 21:57

Zynga is in talks to buy OMGPOP, publisher of the mobile game Draw Something, for as much as $150 million to $200 million, TechCrunch reports, citing ?a source with direct knowledge of the discussions.? The story says talks are still in an early stage and that there may be other competing bidders. The post notes ...

pubblicato il: 19/03/2012 - 18:53

Zynga is holding a press conference at noon Pacific to announce ? well, something. A reasonable guess is that the company will actually announce a deal to buy OMGPOP, the makers of the popular game Draw Something. Earlier this week, TechCrunch had reported that Zynga was in talks to buy the company for $150 million ...

pubblicato il: 21/03/2012 - 19:25

Zynga shares are coming under pressure this morning after the company disclosed in an SEC filing that founder and CEO Mark Pincus and an assortment of venture investors plan to sell stock in a pending offering of 42,969,153 of the company?s common shares. While the company had previously filed for the offering, it had not ...

pubblicato il: 23/03/2012 - 14:56