Zynga – Network of Gaming Applications
http://www.crunchbase.com/company/zynga

Zynga was founded in July 2007 by Mark Pincus, Michael Luxton, Eric Schiermeyer, Justin Waldron, Andrew Trader, and Steve Schoettler. Zynga is a network of gaming applications built off of classic games like Poker, Battleship, and Attack!. The games are found on social networks like Facebook and Bebo. In addition to making their own games, the company has created a network which allows third party developers to become part of the Zynga network. Zynga claims to be the largest social game network on the web with self published numbers of 1.3 million daily active users and 20 million registered users (as of 7/08). This has been added to Games Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.