Zynga was named after Pincus' American bulldog 'Zinga', and uses an image of a bulldog as its logo. The company name changed to Zynga in July 2007. Zynga was founded in April 2007 by Mark Pincus, Eric Schiermeyer, Justin Waldron, Michael Luxton, Steve Schoettler, and Andrew Trader under the name Presidio Media. Īccording to Take-Two Interactive, about 10% of the world's population plays Zynga's games every month. Take-Two Interactive announced in January 2022 its intent to buy Zynga for $12.7 billion. Zynga began trading on NASDAQ on December 16, 2011, under the ticker ZNGA. In 2017, its most successful games were Zynga Poker and Words with Friends 2, with about 57 million games being played at any given moment and CSR Racing 2, the most popular racing game on mobile devices. As of August 2017, Zynga had thirty million monthly active users (MAU). Zynga launched FarmVille, on Facebook in June 2009, reaching ten million daily active users (DAU) within six weeks. Zynga states its mission as 'connecting the world through games'. The company primarily focuses on mobile and social networking platforms. It was founded in April 2007, with headquarters in San Mateo, California. ( / ˈ z ɪ ŋ ɡ ə/) is an American developer running social video game services.
