{"id":30146,"date":"2017-04-27T08:15:33","date_gmt":"2017-04-27T08:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2012\/03\/21\/zynga-buys-draw-something-creator-omgpop\/"},"modified":"2017-04-27T08:15:33","modified_gmt":"2017-04-27T08:15:33","slug":"zynga-buys-draw-something-creator-omgpop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/archives\/30146","title":{"rendered":"Zynga buys ‘Draw Something’ creator&nbsp;OMGPOP"},"content":{"rendered":"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/mashable\/status\/182558884609798145\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2012\/03\/21\/zynga-acquires-omgpop\/\">Mashable<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>Zynga acquired Draw Something creator OMGPOP Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The company has not disclosed the cost of the sale, but AllThingsD reports the acquisition cost Zynga $180 million, plus another $30 million in employee retention payouts.<\/p>\n<p>Draw Something is a Pictionary-style game that lets you draw pictures on your phone or tablet and then send that drawing to a friend who&rsquo;s left to guess what you&rsquo;ve drawn. The Facebook-connected game is played only on mobile devices &mdash; not on Facebook itself &mdash; and it currently sits at the top of the most-downloaded paid and free app lists on both Apple&rsquo;s App Store and Google Play. <\/p><p>Read more: <a href=\"http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2012\/03\/21\/zynga-buys-draw-something-creator-omgpop\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2012\/03\/21\/zynga-buys-draw-something-creator-omgpop\/<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/mashable\/status\/182558884609798145 From Mashable: Zynga acquired Draw Something creator OMGPOP Wednesday. The company has not disclosed the cost of the sale, but AllThingsD reports the acquisition cost Zynga $180 million, plus another $30 million in employee retention payouts. Draw Something is a Pictionary-style game that lets you draw pictures on your phone or tablet and then &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/archives\/30146\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Zynga buys ‘Draw Something’ creator&nbsp;OMGPOP<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[180],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-society-culture"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30146"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}