The company wouldn’t disclose how much money it received in this strategic investment round, but CEO Tim Tuttle said it was more than his company’s initial seed round of $2.4 million.
Funzio, a social games developer best known for its hit title Crime City, has raised $20 million in a first round of funding led by IDG Vent…
Job search engine SimplyHired, based in Mountain View, CA, has received $4.6 million in a new round of funding, led by IDG Ventures and Foun…
Social media-based ad network SocialMedia has picked up $6 million in a second round of funding. IDG Ventures and previous backer Charles Ri…
Friendster has closed its new round of funding, in progress for most of this year, and it is a big one: it has raised $20 million in a new r…
More money for Facebook apps, this time going to an ex-Facebook employee’s startup. i2we, a social apps maker started by ex-Facebooker Karel…
Diehards have tried to revive The Industry Standard, the original dot-com tome that went bust in 2001, more than once over the years. But even their most recent efforts have been met with, at best, muted enthusiasm. More evidence of a bubble, the New York Times declared of the latest revival; can the market bear one more tech pub? PaidContent asked. No one’s ever really thought a rerun of the house-party-throwing-new-economy-cheerleader was a good idea. (Wait a second…)
But this time the Standard holdouts and their patrons at IDG are onto something with The Standard deux (which comes out of beta today) — it’s just that this time what they’re onto isn’t really news, but gaming.
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Pica, a Chinese mobile social networking service, has received $10 million in its third round of financing. The round was led by Crosslink C…
