Reuters: Technology News: Mobile gaming firm King.com sets sights on U.S. IPO: source

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Mobile gaming firm King.com sets sights on U.S. IPO: source Sep 30th 2013, 03:00 Sun Sep 29, 2013 11:00pm EDT (Reuters) - King.com Ltd, the British mobile gaming company best known for its hit puzzle game 'Candy Crush Saga', has filed confidentially for an initial public offering (IPO) in the United States, a person familiar with the matter said on Sunday. Online technology companies are rushing to the stock market on the backs of Twitter Inc's announcement earlier this month that it plans to go public in the most eagerly anticipated IPO since last year's flotation of Facebook Inc. Emerging growth companies such as King can use a secretive IPO registration process in the U.S. thanks to the Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act, which loosened a number of federal securities regulations in hopes of boosting capital raising and thereby increasing job growth. King has hired Bank of America Merrill Lynch Corp, Credit Suisse Group AG and JPMorgan Chase & Co to lead the offering, said the person, confirming an earlier report by the Daily Telegraph and asking not to be identified because the information is confidential. Representatives for King and the banks either declined to comment or did not respond to requests for comment. King offers 150 games in 14 languages through mobile phones, Facebook and its website. It boasts more than 1 billion gameplays per day from its users. The company's games appeal to a growing trend for players to play puzzles with their friends in short bursts, especially as games are increasingly played on the move on phones or tablets to kill spare minutes. Rival Zynga Inc went public two years ago in a high-profile IPO that raised $1 billion. Since then, Zynga has suffered from sagging morale during several quarters of worsening performance and repeated waves of layoffs. Founded in 2003, King has been profitable since 2005 and has not had a funding round since September of that year, when it raised 34 million euros ($46.04 million) from investment firms Apax Partners and Index Ventures. (Reporting by Greg Roumeliotis in New York; Editing by Matt Driskill) Link this Share this Digg this Email Reprints

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