180 million dollars in funding for Zynga from DST, others

Wed, 12/16/2009 - 18:05 EDT
 

Social games publisher Zynga said Wednesday that it has raised 180 million dollars in funding from Russian Internet company Digital Sky Technologies (DST) and other investors.Zynga, the creator of the popular online games "Mafia Wars" and "FarmVille," said the majority of the new funding is from DST, which invested 200 million dollars in Facebook in May.Other investors include Andreessen Horowitz, a venture capital firm started by Marc Andreessen, the co-founder of pioneering Web browser company Netscape, and New York-based fund Tiger Global, it said.

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