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Funding Watch: $25 mil. for Facebook, 13.5 for SimplyHired
Last we heard Facebook was up on the block for nothing less than $2 billion, but now they're
saying they were never interested in selling in the first place. According
to SiliconBeat, the king of social networking sites for the college set has just accepted $25 million in funding
from some Silicon Valley investors and marketing says, "It has never been our intention to sell the company."
Facebook, according to comScore Media Metrix, is the seventh most-visited site on the web.And over on the other side of the web, job meta-search site SimplyHired has raised $13.5 million from Fox Interactive and Foundation Capital, despite the fact that Google is hovering ominously around the corner with its own job search project.
I don't know if this is a labor of love or merely the brainchild of four very gifted games designers, but Level Up is a really weird mash-up of gaming elements that you have probably never seen in a Flash game before.
Let's start with the premise itself: Groundhog Day meets Memento. The game experience revolves around 'days': you explore the world and the clock slowly ticks towards the evening. You bounce around picking up gems and talking to the denizens of 'Level Upland'. Eventually you feel tired and head back to ...
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