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- Keywords: wow, worldofwarcraft, socialnetwork, napster, snocap
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EA Acquires Shawn Fanning's Rupture, Says The LA Times A Month After We Did
The LA Times and others are reporting that EA has acquired Shawn Fanning?s social-network-gaming startup Rupture for around $30 million. We reported this deal a month ago. The ...Read more... -
Shawn Fanning Finally Gets A Real Payday: Electronic Arts Buys Rupture For $30 Million
[Update 8/4/08: The acquisition price subsequently reported by EA is $15 million, not $30 million. But that amount does not include any additional earnout for the founders]. Sh...Read more... -
Who Bought Rupture?
We knew something was up when Shawn Fanning?s startup Rupture, an unlaunched social network around gaming, delayed and delayed their launch. Well, it turns out, say multiple so...Read more... -
Social Network for Gamers, UGAME, Enters Private Beta
The prospect of founding a successful generic social network these days might be bleak given the dominance of players like MySpace and Facebook. However, there?s still plenty o...Read more... -
AOL Finds An Obvious Use For WOW.com: A World Of Warcraft Social Network
The wow.com domain name has laid dormant since at least 1998, when it was acquired by AOL along with other assets of Compuserve. The domain has been coveted by a number of AOL ...Read more...
Company
- Company Name: Rupture
- Homepage: http://rupture.com
- Blog: http://rupture.com/blog
- Twitter: rupture
- Category: games_video
- Number of Employees: 25
- Tags: wow, worldofwarcraft, socialnetwork, napster, snocap
- Description: Gaming Social Network
- Overview:
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Rupture is a new company started by power entrepreneur Shawn Fanning and investor Ron Conway. After working together with the original Napster and then with music distributor Snocap, the two have begun work on Rupture, a social network for MMORPGs; primarily for World of WarCraft (WOW) gamers.
The site is not run in cooperation with Blizzard, the provider of WOW, yet Fanning says rupture does not breach any of WOW’s terms of use. This is quite fortunate as the number of WOW gamers alone hovers over 8 million. In fact, the WOW community is so large it can support multiple companies other than its creator, Blizzard. Look at Sparter, WoW Meeting Stone and WOW.com for other companies that intend to leech profits form WOW.
| Name | Title |
| Jon Baudanza | Co-Founder and CTO |
| Name | Title |
| Brian Pokorny | board of advisors |
| Shawn Fanning | Founder and CEO |
