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Zynga develops social games that work stand-alone on mobile phone platforms such as Apple iOS and Google’s Android and online through its website, Zynga.com, and social networking websites such as Facebook. Its best known game is FarmVille, which it launched in 2009.

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Mark Pincus will be replaced on Monday by Don Mattrick, who was most recently head of Microsoft's Xbox division. Zynga said on Monday that Pincus, who founded Zynga and named it after his American bulldog in 2007, will stay on as chairman and chief product officer.