Rafe Needleman reviews mobile apps and products for fun, and picks startups apart when he gets bored. He has evaluated thousands of new companies, most of which have since gone out of business. In ...

This summer, board game makers Hasbro and Mattel forced the popular Facebook gaming application Scrabulous to shut down, claiming that it violated the companies’ copyrights on the crossword board game ...

As Facebook has blossomed into a hot Internet hangout, its users have passed countless hours playing Scrabble with friends -- or at least, ahn unauthorized version of the word game that Scrabble's ...

As Facebook has blossomed into a hot Internet hangout, its users have passed countless hours playing Scrabble with friends - or at least, an unauthorised version of the word game that Scrabble's ...

Making an online social game a hit is about more than owning the intellectual property for the concept, as game-makers Hasbro and Mattel have found out over the last year or so. They shut down a ...