Zynga launches real-money online gambling, stock price surges
Found on Ars Technica on Wednesday, 03 April 2013
On Wednesday, Zynga launched its online poker and casino games in the United Kingdom, the first proof that the company’s previously announced pivot away from social gaming and toward “real-money” gaming is for real.
“Launching the download and web versions of Zynga’s real money games for play in the UK is an exciting move to bring players the real money games they have been asking us for,” wrote Barry Cottle, the company’s chief revenue officer, on a company blog on Tuesday evening.
So Zynga successfully managed to copy another gaming idea. I don't think it has ever come up with an idea of it's own; for them it's easier to steal ideas from others.