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Tapulous acquired by Disney

Disney has bought Tapulous outright, according to Techcrunch. The iPhone gaming company was one of the first on the App Store, and has been extremely successful with its Tap Tap Radiation and Tap Tap Revenge music titles.

There's no word yet on how much money was involved in the deal, but Disney has been interested in both gaming and the iDevices for a while, and obviously Tapulous proved that it could meet the Mouse House's needs. Bart Decrem, Tapulous' CEO, will reportedly become a VP at Disney.

Very impressive on Tapulous' part. There are more details coming, according to Techcrunch, so we'll update this post when we see any other news on the deal.


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Disney has bought Tapulous outright, according to Techcrunch. The iPhone gaming company was one of the first on the App Store, and has been...
 

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RC

Disney bought is so they could make a children's version. TAP people own the intellectual rights for this and Disney can't make a move without paying through the nose for the licensing rights, etc. The VP move for the TAP owner is typical business for big biz. They keep him, they get us as users. If they dump him, they lose us. It's win win. I do agree with the thought that they will not follow the usual stream of music. Too bad or they will start putting IT"S MILEY on there. sssshhhhh the mouse is coming, everyone look busy!

July 07 2010 at 11:39 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Tom

Who wants Tap Tap Hannah Montana? Tap Tap Jonas? Tap Tap Gomez? Tap Tap Lovato?

July 03 2010 at 3:53 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Nic

Way to ruin Tap Tap Revenge.

July 02 2010 at 12:51 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
deathinthealleys

This kind of bums me out. I'm not that big on the Tap Tap apps, but still... I feel like Disney is going to puss down the music or turn it into some stupid childs app. Bogus.

July 01 2010 at 11:09 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
SIP

@maxats: damn, you just beat me to it. Also, meant developer (funny how only the vowels on my Apple keyboard need extra pressure to work properly).

July 01 2010 at 9:31 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
SIP

Good way for Steve Jobs to make an acquisition of an iDevice dveloper without involving Apple...

July 01 2010 at 9:29 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
maxats

So this basically means Apple acquired Tapulous? ...since Job's essentially owns Disney.

July 01 2010 at 4:05 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Oboewan

First Disney, now this?

July 01 2010 at 3:36 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
2 replies to Oboewan's comment
Oboewan

Meant to say Marvel.

July 01 2010 at 3:39 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
TheCastro

Disney makes things awesome. Look at new Marvel Movies and new Disney movies.

July 01 2010 at 4:40 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
treelo

Neat, good for Tapulous! Now, let's just see if Disney doesn't decide to do it's usual thing and push its other apps at you to make up for the free part.

July 01 2010 at 3:09 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Stephen

for ---- sake... disney will ruin everything

July 01 2010 at 3:07 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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