"There are more features people want in the game, and there's no way we could scale enough people fast enough, " OMGPOP CEO Dan Porter told Mashable shortly after the acquisition.
The acquisition is a strategic fit for the company as POC is a fast-growing brand globally with healthy margins and 35% growth in the prior fiscal year.
In fact, there was plenty, although all the usual caveats apply: AOL is still losing share of the ad market to fast-growing Facebook and Google, and year-over-year comparisons are skewed by the acquisition of the Huffington Post in February 2011.