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| Name | Tapulous Inc. |
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| Type | Subsidiary of Disney Interactive Studios |
| Foundation | Palo Alto, California, U.S. () |
| Founder | Bart DecremAndrew Lacy |
| Location city | Palo Alto, California |
| Location country | U.S. |
| Area served | Worldwide |
| Key people | Bart Decrem (CEO)Andrew Lacy (COO) |
| Industry | Video gamesComputer software |
| Products | Tap Tap |
| Owner | The Walt Disney Company |
| Num employees | 20 |
| Parent | Disney Interactive Studios |
| Homepage | Tapulous.com |
Tapulous was founded in February 2008 with the specific intention of developing software applications for the iOS platform. The company's Tap Tap Revenge gained at least one million players in less than one month of availability, and was the most-downloaded free game of the App Store in 2008. Building on the success of the game, Tapulous has since heavily focused on the Tap Tap Revenge series by expansion and partnership with Universal Records. As of December 2009, the company's sales total nearly $1 million per month. In July 2010, the company was acquired by The Walt Disney Company.
As a reaction to the announcement of the SDK, Tapulous was formed in January 2008 with the initial name of "Gogo Apps". Its co-founders were Bart Decrem, an entrepreneur who helped launch the Firefox browser and was the founding CEO of Flock, Inc. (developer of the Flock web browser) and Andrew Lacy, a consultant of McKinsey & Company. The company thereafter changed its name to the current one, and hired developers Tyler McGowen, to develop Tap Tap Revenge as a launch title for the App Store, although the actual release date was eventually several days after the launch of the store. Meanwhile, Layton Duncan and Tristan O'Tierney developed Twinkle as another launch product. Initial investment in the company, which totaled around $1.8 million USD, was provided by Ben T. Smith, IV Andreas Bechtolsheim and Roy Thiele-Sardina via HighBAR Ventures, Marc Benioff, Rob Theis, the late Rajeev Motwani, Khosla Ventures, Katrina Garnett, Jeff Clavier, Aydin Senkut and others.
Within a month of publishing, Tap Tap Revenge, the game became one of the most popular applications available for the iOS, and had over one million players, and was installed on about twenty percent of all iPhone and iPod Touch devices. In December 2008, it was announced that the game was the most-downloaded free game in the App Store for the year. In April, 2009, comScore announced that Tap Tap Revenge was the most-installed app on the App Store. Tapulous continued to release sequels of the game as a part of the Tap Tap series, and signed a contract with Universal Records in June 2009 to produce promotional games for the series which feature the company's artists.
On July 1, 2010, Tapulous was acquired by The Walt Disney Company and incorporated into Disney Interactive Studios as a wholly-owned subsidiary, part of Disney Interactive Media Group.
Category:Companies based in Palo Alto, California Category:Companies established in 2008 Category:Walt Disney Company subsidiaries Category:Video game companies of the United States Category:Video game publishers Category:Video game developers
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