Zynga bought Flock social browser

Completing the list of eight purchases in the past seven months, Zynga acquired Flock's “social browser”.

Introduced in 2005, Flock is integrated with Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn statuses, it has a service that allows you to share links, as well as a “social search” that reflects what the user's friends are writing about a particular request. Flock will now join the Zynga team in San Francisco. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

“Our team will help Zynga achieve their goal of developing the most interesting social games available to everyone - at any time on any platform,” wrote CEO Sean Hardin in a company blog. According to him, Flock has over 10 million users worldwide.
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With this purchase, Zynga hopes to further spread its social media games. The company that created FarmVille, Mafia Wars and CityVille claims more than 215 million active users per month. This purchase has been followed by seven others since May 2010, including XPD, Challenge Games, Unoh Games, Conduit Labs, Dextrose AG, Bonfire Studios and Newtoy.