Zynga is an online social gaming company founded by Tribe.net co-founder Mark Pincus. The Zynga Blog states that Zynga is the number one social gaming company on the Internet, and Zynga boasts 100 million unique visitors per month.http://blog.zynga.com/2009/11/zynga-hits-100-million-unique-visitors-per-month.html

Zynga was founded specifically to add a social element to casual online games.http://blog.zynga.com/2009/11/zynga-hits-100-million-unique-visitors-per-month.html The popular games can be found on a number of social networking websites like Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, Friendster, Hi5. and meebo.Official Site: Zynga Inc.

Zynga and Facebok are at odds right now and Zynga is considering parting with Facebook. They want to create Zynga Live. There is a disagreement due to Facebook taking a percent of the online game currency.http://www.joystiq.com/2010/05/07/report-zynga-planning-to-ditch-facebook-start-zynga-live-ser/

The company has 200 million monthly active users across all of the games, with one million users purchasing virtual goods per month. This lends credence to the claim that Zynga is the largest game designer.

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