RockYou
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RockYou Secures $50 Million in Series D Funding From Returning Investor SoftBank...and effective campaigns. The company provides customized, one-of-a-kind branding and promotional opportunities through its network of applications on social networking platforms like Facebook, MySpace, Bebo and hi5. RockYou's advertising... In this article: RockYou, SoftBank, SK Telecom Ventures, Partech International, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital, MySpace, Redwood City, California, and Fiscal year |
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IGN | 5 days ago
3rd Annual Virtual Goods Summit Hosts More Than 550 Attendees
...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 users. Additional...
In this article: Nexon, Iphone, North America, Asia, and Europe
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Techcrunch | 6 days ago
RockYou Raises A Whopper - $50 Million In Venture Capital
...a deep dive into the rather sensitive area of in-game offers. Last week the company spoke publicly about Scamville, saying that they would only offer Facebook compliant offers. When asked what types of offers that includes, the company said...
In this article: SoftBank, Venture capital, Unicef, Revenue, Facebook, and MySpace
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New York Times | October 28, 2009
Using a Cellphone Number to Pay for Virtual Goods
...said David Marcus, chief executive of Zong. Many online gaming sites and social networks use Zong as a payment option, including Slide, RockYou and Facebook's newly expanded virtual gift shop. Obopay is also targeting online gaming sites,...
In this article: Obopay, Debit card, University of California Berkeley, and Facebook
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VentureBeat | November 13, 2009
Class-action lawsuits could hit Facebook, MySpace, others on scam offers
...his company did "every horrible thing" to get users. Companies like RockYou, MySpace, Facebook and others have either reiterated or instituted a zero tolerance stance on scam offers. These are the sorts of admissions that class-action...
In this article: Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, San Jose Mercury News, Dallas Times Herald, Gawker, and Mark Pincus
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Offers controversy stirs reactions across social networking industry
...couple of offers highlighted by Techcrunch as scam-like. Slide and RockYou - two of the biggest oldest and biggest social apps makers on Facebook - have also spoken out about offers. In an interview with VentureBeat's Kim-Mai Cutler, Slide...
In this article: Facebook, Playfish, Mark Pincus, Peanut Labs, Revenue, Slide, and Max Levchin
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RockYou raises $50 million in venture funding
...million in venture funding from Softbank. That brings RockYou's total funding to $119 million from investors including Sequoia Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Partech International and DCM. Softbank was the only participant in this...
In this article: Facebook, SoftBank, Twitter, MySpace, Partech International, Playfish, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and Venture capital
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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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