在筹备“发行”虚拟货币，推出《FarmVille》的iPad版本，收购前微软游戏工作室Bonfire Studios，任命前雅虎高管大卫·高（David Ko）任移动部门主管等一系列动作之间，社交游戏开发商Zynga公司仍不忘腾出手来规划其欧洲战略布署。

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日前，该公司曾经在德国法兰克福收购的Dextrose AG公司已开出了一张诚聘JavaScript开发人员等人才招聘清单，表明Zynga对该德国资产甚为重视。由于丰富的开源技术和黑客文化，德国科技公司在世界上一向表现出色，Dextrose AG也深谙其道，比如说擅长开拓新市场。另外，Dextrose AG还自主开发了一款商业游戏引擎，可通过HTML、CSS、JavaScript语言，创造2D或2.5D的无插件程序的网页游戏。

Zynga还在“德国的商务人际关系网”Xing网站上贴出了这一求贤广告，这个消息也已经得到Zynga的确认。

除了现已更名为Zynga Germany的Dextrose AG公司，Zynga在爱尔兰都柏林还有另一个运营工作室，因为当地的营业税率较低，往往成为美国公司向欧洲进军的一大动力。前不久日本软银对Zynga的投资额已追加到了1.5亿美元，所以这一次Zynga在欧洲的招兵买马同样不会差钱。（本文为游戏邦/gamerboom.com编译）

Zynga expands into Europe via its new German base, goes on hiring drive

In between trying to patent virtual currency, launching FarmVille on the iPad, buying a games studio and hiring a mobile head, Zynga also appears to be building out its presence in Europe.

We’ve discovered new job postings for Germany which indicates it’s pretty serious about the German asset it recently acquired in the form of Dextrose AG in Frankfurt. This is a well known tech firm which does what German tech firms often do very well, given their rich heritage in open source and hacker culture. Namely, push the boundaries. And to that end Dextrose has developed a commercial game engine for browser games which don’t require any plugins. Their “Aves Engine” game engine allows the development of 2D or 2.5D games with mere HTML, CSS and JavaScript.

Zynga is also advertising on ‘Germany’s LinkedIn’, Xing. We reached out and have confirmed the hiring spree with Zynga.

Aside from Dextrose, now re-named Zynga Germany, it also has an operational office in Dublin where low corporation tax typically attracts US firms on a European expansion drive. Zynga has lots of profit to play with and a war chest via Softbank Capital which recently increased by $150 million, so hiring is not going to be hard. （source：techcrunch）