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0 Brazilian social gaming firm Vostu lays off staff

Brazilian social gaming firm Vostu confirmed that it laid off an unspecified number of employees.

The company confirmed the layoffs but declined to...

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0 Zynga sues Brazilian copycat Vostu for copyright infringement

Social game company Zynga on Thursday filed a lawsuit against fellow game company Vostu for blatant copyright infringement, suggesting that Vostu...

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0 Latin American startup gets $1.3M for 3D social gaming

Zio Studios, a 45-person animation and gaming startup based in Bogotá, Colombia, has announced that local venture capital firm Promotora, has invested...

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0 Game companies raise record $1.05B in 2010, up 58 percent

Game fundings broke a record this year as 91 companies raised more than $1.05 billion in 2010. That number is up 58 percent from a year ago, based on...

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0 Brazil social game player Vostu raises $30M from Accel and Tiger Global

Brazilian social game company Vostu has raised $30 million from Accel Partners and Tiger Global Management.

The investment from the well-known U.S....

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0 Hip Venture abandons virtual world to pivot into social games (exclusive)

There’s a stampede going on. Publishers of virtual worlds are moving on to better things, or they’re perishing. Usually, that means they’re pivoting...

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0 Mentez gets investment to build social games in Latin America and Brazil (exclusive)

Social gaming firm Mentez has raised a round of funding to build games for the Latin American market and Brazil.

New York-based Insight Venture...

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0 After Zynga Settlement, Layoffs Hit Brazilian Social Gaming Company Vostu

Brazilian social gaming giant Vostu is laying off an undisclosed number of employees, we've learned. Vostu, which has raised $46 million from Intel...

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0 Zynga, Vostu Settle Copyright Lawsuit; Brazilian Gaming Company To Pay Up

Zynga and Vostu has settled their copyright lawsuits, according to a representative for Vostu. Vostu has paid Zynga an undisclosed sum as part of the...

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0 Vostu Co-Founder Joshua Kushner Raises $40M for Thrive Capital’s Second Fund

Thrive Capital Partners, an early stage venture firm run by 26-year-old Internet entrepreneur Joshua Kushner, has raised a second fund totaling $40...

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0 Thrive Capital Raises New $40 Million “Scalable” Fund

Thrive Capital's first venture fund was just $10 million, but the fund made 27 investments and more than a couple look like home runs. That fund,...

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0 US Court Tells Brazilian Court To Stop Ruling On Copyright Issue That It Wants To Rule On First

One of the issues that we've been discussing on Techdirt since the very beginning is the big question of how do you determine proper jurisdiction on...

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0 U.S. Judge Slaps Around Brazilian Court In Zynga v. Vostu

Ah, litigation. Nothing ever really gets done, but the lawyers get paid, and there's always drama. The Vostu v. Zynga case exemplifies all of this....

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0 Zynga Sues Google Over Vostu Dispute, Brazilian Judge Grants Injunction

Two big pieces of news today in the Zynga/Vostu lawsuit (details on lawsuit here and here). In addition to that first lawsuit filed in California,...

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0 Vostu Goes On The Offensive Against Zynga. This Will Get Uglier.

Zynga hit Brazilian gaming startup Vostu with a massive lawsuit last month, alleging that the company was copying Zynga's games so closely that they...

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0 Zynga v. Vostu: Vostu Uses The “I Know You Are But What Am I” Defense

The TechCrunch office pool predicted Vostu would respond to the Zynga lawsuit alleging that Vostu's entire business is basically to copy every single...

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0 WAR! Zynga Sues The Hell Out Of Brazilian Clone Vostu

"Let’s be clear – it is one thing to be inspired by Zynga games, but it is entirely different to copy all of our key product features, product...

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0 What you need to know - Tuesday 11/30/2010

Totsy raised $5M; Vostu $30M; Abiquo $10M; Facebook valued at $50 billion; Jumo launches

Y Combinator will be  partnering with Yodlee in order to...

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0 Vostu secures $30M Series C for social gaming

Brazilian social gaming company picks up third round from Tiger Global Management and Accel Partners

Vostu, one of the leading social gaming...

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0 Vostu, The Zynga Of Brazil, Raises $30 Million At $300 Million Valuation

Social gaming is an international phenomenon. While Zynga is the leading social gaming company in the U.S., in Brazil it is a company called Vostu....

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