Zynga, the publisher of video games "social" as Farmville, one of the most popular games on Facebook, on Friday filed its application for IPO with the U.S. authorities. The company, which has existed for only four years, seeking to raise one billion dollars (700 million).
The company has not announced how many shares would be issued, nor at what price. It claims 232 million active users per month on all of its games, one of the biggest poker games and various versions of the concept of Farmville, which allows players to create their virtual mini-farm and to exchange various goods with other players.
All Zynga games are free, and the company derives its income from the sale of virtual goods such as tools or accessories for the virtual firm Farmville. In recent months, Zynga bought a dozen other companies, mainly game publishers.
According to figures SharesPost, Zynga could be valued at more than $ 15 billion, which would make a capital intensive compared to Activision-Blizzard, the number one publisher of games for PC and consoles.
