RockYou
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Chegg Raises An Ungodly $112 Million For Online Textbook Rental Service...Chegg says it has raised a stupendous $57 million in a fourth round of funding. It's the latest company to pull in a big round this month; RockYou, Motley Fool, and Playdom have each raised $25 million-plus rounds over the last several... In this article: TriplePoint Capital, Pinnacle Ventures, Playdom, RockYou, Motley Fool, and Insight Venture Partners |
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VentureBeat | 1 day ago
Offerpal Media sets standards to lock out scam offers
...1 percent of the offers have generated complaints from users. But the ensuing debate led to changes in policy regarding offers at Zynga, RockYou, and other companies. Facebook renewed its crackdown on scams and actually stopped one of...
In this article: Facebook, Twitter, Netflix, Revenue, San Jose Mercury News, and Dallas Times Herald
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San Jose Mercury News | 2 days ago
Harris: Big bets being made on online gaming
...more and more people and dipping more deeply into their wallets. All those virtual vampires, zombies and mobsters are making serious money. RockYou, archrival of Slide in the development of apps and ad networks on Facebook and other social...
In this article: Facebook, Playfish, MySpace, Slide, Mint.com, Intuit, and Revenue
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paidContent.org | 3 days ago
RockYou Raises $50 Million In Fourth Round
Updated: Social networking app firm RockYou has raised $50 million in a fourth round of funding led by Softbank, TechCrunch reports (No official confirmation yet from the company, although it has retweeted the TechCrunch story on its...
In this article: TechCrunch, SoftBank, and Revenue
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PR Newswire: Technology | 3 days ago
RockYou Secures $50 Million in Series D Funding From Returning Investor SoftBank
...excited to expand our relationship with SoftBank with this round of funding," said Lance Tokuda, co-founder and CEO, RockYou. "In 2009, RockYou is on target to triple our revenue from the previous fiscal year, demonstrating our continued...
In this article: SoftBank, SK Telecom Ventures, Partech International, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital, MySpace, Redwood City, California, and Fiscal year
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IGN | 4 days ago
3rd Annual Virtual Goods Summit Hosts More Than 550 Attendees
...about the integrity of the offer market. The discussion resulted in several social gaming publishers and networks such as Zynga, RockYou, MySpace and Facebook revising the terms of use for offers that are potentially misleading to end...
In this article: Nexon, Iphone, North America, Asia, and Europe
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VentureBeat | 4 days ago
RockYou raises $50 million in venture funding
...Facebook's platform given last week's sale of Playfish to Electronic Arts for as much as $400 million. RockYou is a bit different - it operates a distributed ad network across Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, Orkut, Hi5 and Friendster. The...
In this article: Facebook, SoftBank, Twitter, MySpace, Partech International, Playfish, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and Venture capital
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Techcrunch | 4 days ago
RockYou Raises A Whopper - $50 Million In Venture Capital
Social Network application developer and advertising platform RockYou has raised a whopping $50 million in a Series D round of financing from existing investor Softbank, we've confirmed with the company. RockYou, which was founded in 2006,...
In this article: SoftBank, Venture capital, Unicef, Revenue, Facebook, and MySpace
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VentureBeat | November 13, 2009
Class-action lawsuits could hit Facebook, MySpace, others on scam offers
...network users who were duped into accepting scam offers, Gawker reported. The law firm is looking at users of Facebook, MySpace, Zynga, RockYou, Offerpal Media, and Super Rewards, among others. Given the events of the past couple of weeks,...
In this article: Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, San Jose Mercury News, Dallas Times Herald, Gawker, and Mark Pincus
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Independent.co.uk - Gadgets & Tech | November 10, 2009
'Whether it was viral or word of mouth it was always based on the content'
...press started writing about them and artists started having MySpace accounts like UB40. I am involved with Slide and I know the RockYou guys pretty well. PENENBERG: What are you doing with Slide? HONG: I am an investor in it and I go...
In this article: YouTube, MySpace, Yahoo, Revenue, and Meaning of life
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CNET News.com | November 03, 2009
MySpace changes terms of use to combat app scams
...Michael Arrington and Offerpal CEO Anu Shukla at last week's Virtual Goods Summit event in San Francisco, game makers like Zynga and RockYou put out statements saying that they're cracking down on offers that are potentially misleading.
In this article: MySpace, CNET News, Facebook, Manhattanite, Best interests, IT Security, TechCrunch, and Yelp
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Description from CrunchBase:
Netpickle maker of RockYou (originally named RockMySpace) creates and distributes self-expression widgets. The widgets can be used to enhance the look and feel of blogs, personal websites and personal pages on social networks such as Facebook, MySpace and Bebo. RockYou has over 10 million registered users and gets over 150 million widget views from over 200 countries per day.
Co-Founders Lance Tokuda and Jia Shen were sued by their former employer Iconix in 2006. Iconix claimed Tokuda and Shen were working on a slideshow application for them at the same time the pair created RockYou. A preliminary injunction favored Iconix before the intellectual property theft case was settled out of court.
RockYou’s main competitor is Slide.
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