by Joel Rothman | Aug 14, 2009 | AppsLawBlog
Berlin-based Wooga, a social gaming company, has closed a round of venture funding from Holtzbrinck Ventures. Wooga makes Brain Buddies, a popular Facebook game similar to another game called “Who Has the Biggest Brain?” by Playfish, one of the biggest Facebook app...
by Joel Rothman | Aug 4, 2009 | AppsLawBlog
Advertising Age reports that Facebook will block apps that incorporate advertising that fail to comply with Facebook guidelines. Two types of advertisements may no longer run on Facebook: Anything that sends “user data received from Facebook to ad...
by Joel Rothman | Aug 4, 2009 | AppsLawBlog
Want to earn some extra downloads? Port that iPhone app to MS Win Mobile. Microsoft has published a case study detailing how to port an iPhone application to its Windows Mobile platform. For the details, read this case study published on Microsoft’s Microsoft...
by Joel Rothman | Aug 2, 2009 | AppsLawBlog
Horizon Group Management, LLC, one of Chicago’s “premier apartment leasing and management companies,” has sued a former tenant, Amanda Bobben, for libel over a tweet she posted on her public twitter feed. The tweet read: You should just come anyway....
by Joel Rothman | Aug 2, 2009 | AppsLawBlog
BPCouncil, an international brand protection organization based in Geneva, Switzerland, is featuring a segment discussing iPhone App trademark issues, showcasing the recent InfoMedia v. Air-O-Matic dispute, commonly known as iFart v. Pull My Finger. The discussion is...
by Joel Rothman | Jul 28, 2009 | AppsLawBlog
Apple has rejected Google’s official Google Voice app, and has removed from the App Store several Google Voice-related apps that had previously been accepted. A Google spokesperson confirmed the ban of Google Voice in a statement to eWEEK July 27: Apple did not...
