社交游戏开发商Zynga周二宣布，已收购总部位于波士顿的社交游戏公司Conduit Labs。这将是Zynga在过去几个月中完成的第四笔并购交易。此前，该公司已先后收购了社交游戏公司希佩德（XPD Media）、社交游戏公司Challenge Games、日本社交游戏公司Unoh等多家公司。

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收购后Conduit Labs将成为Zynga波士顿子公司，成为关注新产品开发的新游戏工作室。今天的协议加强了Zynga的游戏制作业务，之前该公司已在旧金山、奥斯汀、巴尔的摩、班加罗尔、北京和洛杉矶开设了游戏工作室。

Conduit Labs首席执行官纳比尔·海特（Nabeel Hyatt）将成为新波士顿制作公司的负责人。该公司团队将立即并入Zynga的工作团队当中。Conduit Labs成立于2007年，并从Charles River Ventures和Prism VentureWorks两家风险投资公司融资850万美元。该公司已经开发了多款免费玩网络社交游戏。

Zynga 游戏部门高级副总裁迈克·维杜（Mike Verdu）表示：“波士顿是一个科技中心，拥有强大的人才市场，是我们扩大业务的理想位置，作为波士顿最著名的游戏公司之一，Conduit Labs的团队与Zynga有着类似的文化和推动力，我们都期待新的工作室大获成功。”

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收购Conduit Labs加上最近宣布的与软银合资组建Zynga日本，都是公司扩大全球业务的行动，为Zynga通过游戏与世界联系起来创造更多机会。

Zynga 上周五宣布，该公司已聘用了Facebook前高管、MySpace前首席执行官欧文·范-纳塔（Owen Van Natta）出任公司执行副总裁。范-纳塔将向公司首席执行官马克·平卡斯（Mark Pincus）汇报工作。在加盟Zynga之前，范-纳塔一直是该公司的顾问。Zynga一直在为首次公开招股（IPO）进行准备，不过该公司首次公开招股的确切时间目前仍不得而知。业内人士指出，考虑到范-纳塔一直热衷于企业并购，相信不久之后Zynga还会收购更多的社交游戏开发公司。

Expanding its social gaming empire from coast to coast, Zynga has acquired music social game maker Conduit Labs for an undisclosed price.

Conduit Labs will become Zynga Boston and focus on social game development. Zynga now has studios in San Francisco, Austin, Baltimore, Bangalore, Beijing, Los Angeles, and Los Gatos (although, for some reason, they never mention the Los Gatos office).

Nabeel Hyatt, chief executive of Conduit Labs, will become head of the new Boston studio. Hyatt founded Conduit Labs in 2007 and the company raised money from Charles River Ventures and Prism VentureWorks. It has made several free-to-play social games for the web. One of them was Loudcrowd, a social music game site that combined social networking with casual music listening. It was sort of like Guitar Hero meets the web. Another game was Spin, where you could create your own version of a song.

“Boston is an epicenter for technology and has a strong talent market, making it an ideal location for us to expand operations,” said Mike Verdu, senior vice president of games at Zynga.

Zynga is busy expanding worldwide. It recently launched Zynga Japan in a joint venture with SoftBank, which invested $150 million into Zynga. The company is making a mint from its games on Facebook. Those games are free-to-play, but users can pay real money for virtual goods in those games. Since Zynga has more than 200 million users on Facebook, it is generating hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue, even though a relatively small percentage of players make purchases. That revenue has turned Zynga into a steamroller, allowing it to raise more money and acquire more game studios. It’s in a race because it has well-heeled rivals such as Disney, which has acquired Playdom, and Electronic Arts, which bought Playfish.(source:tencent/venturebeat)