EA Buying Shawn Fanning’s Rupture for $30 million (ERTS)

Vasanth Sridharan | May 9, 2008 11:14 AM

Shawn FanningShawn Fanning’s third startup didn’t go the way of his first or his second. Electronic Arts is buying Rupture, a social network for online gamers, for $30 million, TechCrunch reports. That’s a lot better than Napster, which was crushed under the weight of copyright infringement lawsuits, or SnoCap, which was sold to imeem for pennies on the dollar. But he has been able to pull down some dough in between -- he starred in a VW commercial earlier this year.

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6 Comments

deshawn (URL) said:
640-802 EA Buying Shawn Fanning鈥檚 Rupture for $30 million (ERTS) I'll know when the time comes. I can handle it myself.
marylou (URL) said:
Make a long story short. You can ease up. 640-802 / 642-373 / 70-649 / 70-290 / 650-251 / 642-105

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