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Zynga launches a sort-of game without owning the web address PrivacyVille.com

Zynga might be planning to raise $1 billion in an initial public offering, but the social gaming giant won’t spend the money for a domain name on the aftermarket, even though it launched a mini game using the name. Yesterday, Zynga unveiled PrivacyVille on zynga.com/privacy, a tutorial on its corporate website that educates people about the company’s privacy and […]

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Zynga files trademark for “With Friends” with the US Patent and Trademark Office

On March1, 2011, Zynga filed for a trademark on the word “ville” in Europe.  Days later, Zynga then followed “ville” with an application in Europe for “With Friends” on March 7.  Now, the social gaming giant which filed for its IPO on July 1, has filed an application (No. 85361265) for trademark rights on the word mark “With Friends” in the United States. […]

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Patentville.com ‘trademark filed by Zynga’ goes up for auction on aftermarket

Earlier this year, social gaming giant Zynga filed a trademark application on the word “Patentville” with the Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market (OHIM).  The European trademark covered, among other things, leather and imitations of leather and footwear. Back in April, I wrote about Zynga not owning the matching domain name: patentville.com.  A few months later, that’s […]

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RockYou wants to compete with Zynga with its newest domain registration: GalacticAllies.com

Founded in 2005, RockYou is one of the top developers in the social gaming space with over 13 million monthly active users of its games, according to the site AppData.  Social gaming is a very competitive market and now it seems that RockYou will be creating its own outerspace-like version of Zynga’s popular title Empires […]

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Will Zynga give The Sims on Facebook a run for its money with Familyville?

Electronic Arts is making some big waves in the social gaming world this week amid rumors the company is buying PopCap Games a direct competitor of Zynga.  But that’s not the only news regarding EA and social gaming.  In the fierce competition for the next top game title on Facebook, EA announced that it would […]