Zynga

Name:	Zynga
Industries:	Internet
Headquarters:	365 Vermont St. San Francisco, CA 94103 United States
Website:
www.zynga.com/

Zynga is the largest social gaming company on the web. They build games that run inside social networks and leverage the social graphs that users have already built in social networks to let users play against their real friends online instead of strangers.

Zynga was founded by Mark Pincus in 2007 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Zynga was founded specifically to add a social element to casual online games. Social games provide a more fun, competitive and contagious experience.

Zynga delivers on the promise of social networks, making it easy to connect with old friends and make new ones (no download required!). Zynga has something for everyone: casino games, word games, board games, role playing games and party games which can be found on Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, Friendster, and Hi5.

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