Russia Injecting Farmville Publisher USD180 Million
Farmville game publisher, Zynga, additional funds of approximately USD180 million Russian Internet company Digital Sky Technologies (DST) for USD180 million.
In addition to DST, Zynga also be supported by the Global Tiger Andreessen and Horowitz. Zynga increasingly popularity after the excellent produce games for social network platforms such as Mafia Wars, Farmville, Zynga Poker, YoVille, FishVille and PetVille.
Games on social networks enable people around the world connected to each other and play together every day. Injection of funds from DST will be encouraged to issue more Zynga games social networking to make everyone around the world interact.
Investment in Facebook and Zynga is the right step in the Internet world, because social networking sites and entertainment is the next generation in cyberspace. DST previously has invested approximately USD200 million in Facebook.
Zynga now claim that 230 million people actively play the games of their creation. Even 90 percent of Zynga income from the sale of virtual items that support the game.
The main competitor Zynga, Playfish has also been preparing to square off to fight in the market of social networking games. PlayFish has done a deal with the famous game developer Electronics Arts. EA rumored to have been poured funds approximately USD400 million.