Zynga to close Omgpop: Unwilling to sell to founder

Sina Science and technology news Beijing time August 8 morning, according to the U.S. Science and Technology blog BusinessInsider report, people familiar with the matter, game developers Omgpop founder Charles Forman (Charles Forman) And a number of former executives want to buy back the omgpop.com site, which is about to be closed by Zynga, but Zynga has not responded. Similar events have occurred before. In March 2008, Michael Birch, founder of social networking site Bebo, sold the company to AOL at a price of 850 million Michael Pochi. In July this year, Porky bought the social networking site for 1 million of dollars at a time when Bebo was on the verge of closure. However, Foreman is not Porky so lucky. Several former executives such as Foreman and Omgpop's former CTO Jason Palman (Jason Pearlman) want Zynga to sell the company's Web site back to them rather than close the site, people familiar with the matter said. Foreman and Omgpop executives said they would be willing to bid for about 500,000 dollars if Zynga did not want to send the omgpop.com site back to them for free. Foreman and others have pledged to continue to maintain the site and rename the site to avoid confusion with Zynga after acquiring the omgpop.com site. At present, the omgpop.com site has nearly 2 million months of independent access to users, about 20 games, annual revenue or can reach millions of U.S. dollars, enough to support the day-to-day maintenance of the site. According to this flow calculation, the site's monthly game visits will reach tens of millions of times. Although Foreman and others have tried to discuss the matter with Zynga, Zynga has not responded. Zynga then announced that it would close the omgpop.com site by the end of September. "They (foreman and others) were disappointed with the news," people familiar with the matter said. "Zynga hasn't commented on the news so far. (Chen)