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Online Game Developer Tiny Speck Lands $5 Million
San Francisco
- Tiny Speck, an online game development studio founded by Flickr co-founder
Stewart Butterfield, has raised $5 million in its first round of funding,
GigaOM...
Social Network hi5 Raises $23 Million
*Update: The company tells DMW that it has not raised $23 million in new financing, and that the filings mentioned in the linked article...
Social Games Developer Hangout Industries Gets $2 Million
Boston
- Hangout Industries, a Boston-based developer of online social gaming services
for children, has raised $2 million in venture debt, according to a new filing
by...
Playdom Acquires Argentine Game Developer Three Melons
Mountain View,
Calif. - Playdom, a developer of
social games for Facebook and MySpace, said on Wednesday that it has acquired
Argentina-based online game developer Three Melons.
...
Sony to Nix Linux Installation Option on PlayStation 3
Tokyo
- Sony (NYSE: SNE) plans to disable the ability for its PlayStation 3 game console to run
Linux or other operating systems in a firmware...
Chinese Online Games Firm Perfect World Buys C&C Media
Beijing
- Perfect World (NASD: PWRD), a Chinese developer and operator of online games, announced on
Friday that it will acquire Japanese online game operator C&C Media...
Secret Builders Gets $2.3 Million for Educational Virtual World
San Mateo,
Calif. - Secret Builders, the
developer of an online virtual world with educational games, has raised $2.3
million in new funding, VentureBeat reported.
Backers include The...
Netflix Shipping Instant Streaming Discs to Wii Owners
Los Gatos,
Calif. - Online DVD service
Netflix (NASD: NFLX) on Thursday began shipping discs to subscribers that will allow them to
access its instant streaming video content...
Picklive Nabs Funding for Online Fantasy Soccer Game
Palo Alto,
Calif. - Picklive, the operator
of an online fantasy soccer game, has raised an undisclosed amount of seed
funding led by Last.fm backer Stefan Glaenzer,...
Avatar Reality Gets $4.2M for Blue Mars Virtual World Platform
Honolulu
- Avatar Reality, the developer of the massively multiplayer online virtual
world platform Blue Mars, announced on Thursday that it has raised $4.2 million
in new...
