The Inquisitr » serious business http://www.inquisitr.com The Better Mix Wed, 25 Nov 2009 05:30:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Facebook Game Developer Social Gaming Network Takes $15 Million http://www.inquisitr.com/280/social-gaming-network-15-million/ http://www.inquisitr.com/280/social-gaming-network-15-million/#comments Tue, 13 May 2008 23:55:40 +0000 Duncan Riley http://www.inquisitr.com/?p=280 Social Gaming Network has taken $15 million Series A in a round that included Greylock Partners, Founders Fund, Columbia Capital and Novak Biddle Venture Partners.

Palo Alto based Social Gaming Network was spun off from Freewebs in December 2007 and develops games for social networks including Facebook, Bebo, MySpace and Hi5. The company first came to prominence with their first Facebook game, Warbook.

Social Gaming Network said they would use the funding to increase research and development of its gaming platform, and to “produce more tools for social game developers who want to create a richer gaming experience on the social networks and the social web.”

The announcement follows news May 8 of SGN competitor Serious Business taking $4 million.

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]]> http://js-kit.com/rss/www.inquisitr.com/p=280 0 sgn The Company Behind Friends For Sale Takes $4 Million http://www.inquisitr.com/159/the-company-behind-friends-for-sale-takes-4-million/ http://www.inquisitr.com/159/the-company-behind-friends-for-sale-takes-4-million/#comments Fri, 09 May 2008 03:57:43 +0000 Duncan Riley http://www.inquisitr.com/?p=159 Serious Business, the company behind the Friends for Sale Facebook app, has taken $4 million in funding in a round led by Lightspeed Ventures.

Serious Business is run by former Powerset engineer Siqi Chen, and according to the companies website (likely in jest, but remember they just took $4 million):

“Serious Business leverages the core competencies of our world renowned team to create revolutionary new synergies which tap in to blue ocean markets in the social platform mashup internets. Serious Business will forever redefine the way we use the web – even the way we see life itself. The first decade of the internet was fun. This decade is going to be Serious.”

Their only product, Friends for Sale, has 799,952 daily active users according to Facebook. The Serious Business website mentions two other projects/ games being developed without providing details.

(via PEHub)

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