The story
Founded by Trip Hawkins in 2003, in San Mateo.1
Digital Chocolate was founded in 2003 by Hawkins after the closure of the 3DO Company. It had operations in San Mateo, Seattle, St. Petersburg, Bangalore, Helsinki, and Mexicali.
In 2004, Digital Chocolate acquired European developer Sumea, which then became its Helsinki studio.
On August 15, 2011, Digital Chocolate agreed to acquire Sandlot Games, a leading casual game developer and publisher.
In May 2012, Trip Hawkins stepped down as CEO to move to a "consulting and advisory relationship" with the company. The company also announced plans to lay off 180 employees.
Galaxy Life is its most successful title on Facebook to date, ranking at 284th bucket of MAU (monthly active users) as of September 13, 2013.
In 2013, Digital Chocolate's Barcelona studio was sold to Ubisoft with the Galaxy Life IP and the Helsinki studio was closed.
In April 2014, Digital Chocolate's four remaining Facebook games — Army Attack, Crazy Penguin Wars, Millionaire City, and Zombie Lane — were licensed to RockYou, along with the hiring of its developers to continue work on the games.
From Wikipedia’s article on Digital Chocolate, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4