kennyo wrote: Actually, Egenera's CEO is staying on as Board chairman. As the company transitions to be a multi-platform player, the feeling is to have management who are experts about software, the converged infrastructure market, and familiar with the players in the space. Ergo the new CEO, and ergo the new levels of backing from investors. The company is still hiring in its field and OEM spaces, and in conversations with multiple IHV partners.
Zynga (www.zynga.com),
the largest developer of social games, announced today that its wildly
popular FarmVille game is the largest and fasting growing social game in
history with more than 11 million daily active users. Since its launch
on June 19th, 2009, FarmVille has attracted more than 1
million new daily active users a week, on average.
FarmVille is a light, fast and fun game where players create and manage
their own virtual farm. Like all Zynga games, FarmVille lets you play,
invest and express by plowing, growing and harvesting a variety of crops
for money and game points. Players also have options to invest in their
farms by purchasing fruit trees and farm animals such as pigs and cows,
and compliment their crops with other farm assets such as barns,
windmills and greenhouses. Nurturing the farm is the key to success for
players and their network of fellow farmer friends--those who tend their
crops diligently will see their farms flourish and their bank accounts
swell. Players’ friends are a key element of success in FarmVille.
“FarmVille demonstrates the huge market potential of social gaming – in
just 9 weeks the game has become a cultural phenomenon,” said Mark
Pincus, founder and CEO of Zynga. “No other application has achieved
what this game has in such a short amount of time. Who would have
guessed that FarmVille is now the biggest online game in North America
and quickly becoming the biggest online game in the world."
“FarmVille’s growth is nothing short of spectacular and a clear
indicator that we have a winning formula for giving players around the
world a virtual farming experience that they truly enjoy,” said Mark
Skaggs, VP and GM of Zynga’s Social RTS studio. "By combining the best
elements of social gaming, with people’s instinct to nurture, we’ve
created an incredibly fun, wholesome and rewarding experience.”
About Zynga
Zynga is the largest social gaming company with 27 million daily users
and 93 million monthly users. Zynga’s games are available on Facebook,
MySpace, Bebo, Hi5, Friendster, Tagged, Yahoo! and the iPhone, and
include FarmVille, Texas Hold’Em Poker, Mafia Wars, YoVille,
Vampires, Street Racing, and Scramble. The company is funded
by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, IVP, Union Square Ventures, Foundry
Group, Avalon Ventures, Pilot Group, Reid Hoffman and Peter Thiel. Zynga
is headquartered at the Chip Factory in San Francisco. For more
information, please visit www.zynga.com.