Online social networking king Thurs Zynga said Tuesday an agreement was signed with a rival accused of stealing secrets and encourages employees to treason. Zynga Playdom and revealed no details of the agreement to terminate a complaint filed in September last year in a state court near the headquarters of California Playdom northern city of Mountain View.
“Zynga is very pleased with the final solution to its trade secrets suit against Playdom and different people, “said Reggie Davis Zynga General Counsel. “We have a lot of respect for Disney and I am grateful that after the acquisition Playdom, Disney decided to take our delight, “Davis says. Walt Disney Co. announced in July the acquisition of Playdom in a lot of value not exceeding $ 763,000,000.
Disney said shareholders will receive up to $ 563,200,000 Playdom and performance related bonuses of up to $ 200 million. Playdom is the developer of popular online games such as Social City “Sorority Life”, Market Street and Ball and claims 42 million active players per month on social networks like Facebook and MySpace. Playdom main rivals in the rapidly growing area are Zynga games.
Zynga claims more than 230 million monthly active users of its games, including “Farmville “Mafia Wars and Treasure Island. Judicial settlement “reflects the very serious nature of the conduct in question, “said Davis. Playdom top executives, frustrated by not always behind the market leader Zynga have launched a campaign to steal ideas for games and other inside information, court documents charge. “We are in the process of copying co-founder Dan Play dom Yue was quoted as saying in an internal e-mail exchange, which was part of the court record. “Let all evil”.
Zynga Playdom target workers, get them to reveal the secrets within the business and to attract new jobs, competing with their former employer. E-mail evidence obtained in the case showed “an impressive amount of anger and hatred Zynga, which has led to an illegal and immoral behavior, “according to court documents. “I do not think Mark Pincus to understand, but a good part of my motivation to push forward the working week more than 100 hours, just like his, “Yue said in an e-mail.
“God, I hate that guy. “Playdom uses a backdoor to hack online poker Zynga popular game for a list of players in January 2009, according to the lawsuit. The next day, 1.6 million game players have been invited to play Playdom version and said the amount of chips waiting for each one of them was 125 percent higher than in their poker accounts Zynga”.
The prosecution focused Playdom and eight once the game makers accused of slipping secrets Zynga to compete. Playdom issued a joint statement with Zynga announced that an agreement has been reached, but did not comment further.
