Lolapps was a developer and publisher of social games on the

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. Lolapps was best known for creating Ravenwood Fair with

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which had 25 million players worldwide. In 2011, Lolapps merged with social games publisher 6waves to become 6waves Lolapps. Combined, the companies had 35 million monthly active users which made 6waves Lolapps the second largest game publisher on

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behind

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History

Lolapps was founded in 2007 by Brian Rue, Kamo Asatryan, Annie Chang, and Kavin Stewart. It started with Quiz Creator, a

app that allowed users to create their own quizzes and invite their friends to play. Based on the growth of Quiz Creator and Gift Creator—a gift creation app—the company raised $4.5 million in funding from

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in the fall of 2008. In 2009, Lolapps acquired social gaming company Roflplay and its founder, Arjun Sethi, became CEO of Lolapps. By 2010, Lolapps had 100 million users, making it competitive in social gaming with

and CrowdStar. Game designer

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joined Lolapps in May 2010. She brought on

to work on Lolapps' new title Ravenwood Fair, which launched in October 2010. By March 2011, Ravenwood Fair had 25 million users worldwide. In July 2011, Lolapps merged with social games publisher 6waves to form 6waves Lolapps. Later that year in August, South Korean

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publisher

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invested $35 million on 6waves Lolapps.6waves Lolapps Sheds Most Of Its Development Team To Focus on Publishing Games
/ref> In March 2012, 6waves Lolapps laid off its development team—many of whom came from the Lolapps merger—to focus on game publishing. Later in March, 6waves Lolapps rebranded itself as 6waves, dropping Lolapps from its name. In January 2022,

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acquired 6waves for $201M.

Controversy

In October 2010, the

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discovered that a number of Facebook apps—including Lolapps apps—were transmitting Facebook user data to third parties like ad networks and user tracking services.

considered this a policy violation and suspended Lolapps and other offending apps. Two days later, Lolapps came back online after dissolving its relationship with RapLeaf.

References

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