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Zynga is a social game company, in 2007 June established. Zynga development of the game is mostly Webpage games, and released in the Facebook and the MySpace social networking sites. The company's headquarters in American San francisco.

Vostu is a social gaming company which was launched in May 2007. Initially a social network for Latin America with a strong presence in Brazil, the company developed and launched its first succesful social game in June 2009 under the title "Joga Craque", a soccer-focused RPG for Brazilian players. It then launched a version of the same game on the popular Brazilian social network Orkut in October 2009. More recently, Vostu launched a farming game on Orkut called "Mini Fazenda" which as of January 31, 2010 had 8 million monthly active users and was rated the #1 social game on the Orkut platform. Vostu was started by Daniel Kafie, Mario Schlosser and Josh Kushner while they were students at Harvard University. As of February 2010, Vostu is a private company with offices in Sao Paulo, Buenos Aires, and New York. The company is venture-backed by Intel Capital who led a $1.3M seed round in early 2008 and a follow-on investment in November 2009 for an undisclosed amount.

Zynga, Vostu Settle Copyright Lawsuit; Brazilian Gaming Company To Pay Up

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Zynga and Vostu has settled [ˈsetld] their copyright lawsuits [ˈlɔ:ˌsu:ts], according to a representative [ˌrepriˈzentətiv] for Vostu. Vostu has paid Zynga an undisclosed sum as part of [ˈɡləubəl] the settlement and made changes to its games.

Here is the joint statement [ˈsteitmənt] the companies issued [ˈisju:d]: “Zynga and Vostu have settled the copyright lawsuits and counterclaims against each other in the United States and Brazil [brəˈzil]. As part of the settlement, Vostu made a monetary [ˈmʌnitəri] payment to Zynga and made some changes to four of its games. The parties [ˈpɑ:tiz] are pleased [pli:zd] to have settled their disputes [disˈpju:ts] and to now put these matters behind them.”

For background, Zynga hit Brazilian [brəˈzɪliən] gaming startup Vostu with a massive lawsuit in June, alleging [əˈledʒɪŋ] that the company was copying Zynga’s games. In fact, Zynga alleged that Vostu was copying Zynga’s games so closely that they even inadvertently [ˌɪnədˈvɜ:təntlɪ] included the bugs.

In return, Vostu claimed that Zynga has copied other games repeatedly [riˈpi:tidli] over the years, including Zynga’s hit game Cityville.

Zynga then sued shareholder Google over the Vostu dispute, because Orkut, which is popular in Brazil, was hosting the Vostu games that Zynga says are rip-offs.

Lawsuits were filed in California and in Brazil. Vostu has a fairly large userbase in the Latin [ˈlætn] American country. In fact, 25% of internet users in Brazil play Vostu games.

Clearly this is ugly, but Zynga won this battle [ˈbætl]. And it’s not surprising that the companies reached an agreement at this time. As Zynga is about to go public, the social gaming giant is surely trying to get some of these lega [ˈli:ɡəl] l issues [ˈisju:z] resolved in the next few weeks. Vostu has raised a total [ˈtəutəl] of $46 million from Intel Capital, Accel Partners, General Catalyst, and Tiger Technology Global [ˈɡləubəl] Management.

My country has many similar case.maybe they did not study professional ethics,So professional ethics is very important for every designer.