CrowdStar Getting More Acquisition Interest, but May Raise Funding

San Francisco-based social game developer CrowdStar has meteorically risen to #2 on the AppData DAU charts over the last several months, surpassing Playfish and Playdom and now second only (albeit distantly) to market leader Zynga. As you may imagine, there are folks interested in the social gaming market who might be taking a look at acquiring the company.

We’ve been hearing a bunch of rumors in recent weeks, but the latest rumor published by Bloomberg this morning is that Microsoft is in the mix, and may be valuing CrowdStar at $200 million.

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