Tag archive: Jayant Agarwalla

Sometimes it's “game over” without a buzzer, bright lights, or a victory dance: social networking service Facebook took down the Scrabble clone Scrabulous from its North American site last month, and now it's pulled the plug on the game on most of its international sites as well after receiving a formal complaint from Mattel, the company that owns the rights to Scrabble outside the United States. (In the U.S., rights… Read More

Social networking site Facebook has removed the popular game Scrabulous from its North American sites , following legal action from Scrabble maker Hasbro. Facebook users in the U.S. and Canada will simply see a notice that Scrabulous has been disabled until further notice if they try to play the game. Developed by Indian brothers Rajat and Jayant Agarwalla, Scrabulous has been one of the most popular games on Facebook, racking up more than… Read More

The game Scrabulous is one of the most popular apps on Facebook, having been around for a year and a half, with a fan base of 40,000 and half a million users each day. It’s also one of the most controversial, as it seems to be very close to the game Scrabble (which is relatively new on the social networking site and boasts just 10,000 daily users and 5,000 fan on Facebook), whose rights are owned by Hasbro. Hasbro has already… Read More

If you’re a Facebook user, the chances are you’ll have come across the Scrabulous application. With more than half a million people using it every day it it’s one of the most popular add-ons for thesocial networking site.   But, the BBC reports, it might have to vanish soon. Hasbro and Mattel, who share globalownership of the Scrabble trademark, claim that Scrabulous infringes their copyright and have asked Facebook to… Read More