Thursday, June 3, 2010

Question 660

'X' is a ____ developer located in San Francisco, California, United States. The company develops browser-based ____,that work,both stand-alone and as application widgets on websites such as(most notably)'Y' and some others.X was founded in July 2007 by Mark Pincus, Michael Luxton, Eric Schiermeyer, Justin Waldron, Andrew Trader, and Steve Schoettler. They received USD $29 million in venture finance from several firms, led by Kleiner Perkins Caufiel & Byers in July 2008. According to their website, as of December 2009, they had 60 million unique daily active users.On 7 May 2010,it was reported that X was planning to leave Y altogether in the wake of Y's requiring exclusive use of Y credits for monetization in applications.After Y negotiations for having X host its ____ solely on Y fell through, Y retaliated by shutting off notifications for several of X's ____, including 'Z'.Plans surfaced for X to completely leave Y and to create a new "X Live" network. A public blog post revealed the planned creation of a new network called Zlive.What are we talking about here?

5 Answers:

Punarvasu said...

X is Zynga
Y is Facebook
Z is Farmville/Yoville(I'm not so sure...)

maverick said...

X - ZYNGA
GAMES
Y -FACEBOOK
Z- FARMVILLE

Unknown said...

X-ZYNGA, a social network game.
Y-FACEBOOK

Kartikeya Pradhan said...

Zynga

escapist said...

ZYNGA