Earlier today, Zynga, a San Francisco - based social games company, raised a whopping $ 180 million in fresh funding from Digital Sky Technologies (DST), a Russian investment firm that first made a splash with a $ 200 million investment in Facebook this summer. (gigaom.com)
Wade Tinney — Founding partner and CEO of casual and social game company Large Animal Games, one of the city's oldest and most respected development shops. (gamecenter.nyu.edu)
Mr. Pleasants, who had been chief executive of Playdom, joined Disney in July 2010, when it paid $ 563.2 million for Playdom, then the No. 3 social game company on Facebook. (nytimes.com)