Yahoo Acquires Facebook Fantasy Sports Game-Makers Citizen Sports

Yahoo today announced that they are acquiring Citizen Sports, a company that creates fantasy sports leagues for Facebook, iPhone, Android and other devices. The acquisition is meant to enhance Yahoo’s position in social games and fantasy sports, and “strengthen Yahoo!’s social strategy of enriching, aggregating and distributing social content from across the entire Web, and offering a highly customizable social experience.”

Citizen Sports various applications allow people to play in fantasy leagues, fi ll out brackets, check out live scores and read news on various sports.