Visual.ly is an infographics design company that has raised $2 million in seed funding. The investors in this round includes Crosslink Capital, SoftTech, 500 Startups, Kapor Capital, Giza Ventures, Naval Ravikant, Mark Goines, Josh James, etc. Visual.ly had about 26,000 users sign up as part of their beta. Over 300,000 infographics have been created and they receive about one million pageviews per month. Some of the companies that Visual.ly works with include BuzzFeed, AskMen, CNNMoney, GOOD, NASDAQ, Skype, the Wall Street Journal, and National Geographic. Visual.ly plans on using the funding for building their development team and hire additional data visualization specialists.

Bleacher Report is a sports website that has raised $22 million in a round led by Oak Investment Partners. Crosslink Capital and Hillsven Capital participated in this round. Oak Investment Partners plans on helping Bleacher Report expand to other verticals where content creation and publishing is encouraged by social engagement.

Empire Avenue is a stock market website for social influence. The company has raised $1.2 million in Series A funding. This round of funding was led by Crosslink Capital. iNovia Capital, TriplePoint Capital, and BioWare co-founders Drs. Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk also participated in this round.

Dell Inc. (NASDAQ:DELL) is acquiring Force10 Networks Inc. for $700 million in cash. Force10 is a high-speed Ethernet networking equipment company that was planning to go the IPO route.

Kiip is an in-game advertising company that has announced $4 million in Series A funding in a round that is led by Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, Crosslink Capital, and True Ventures. Kiip has not revealed how they plan on using the funding. They plan on using the funding to “bridge the gap between mobile advertising and mobile gaming.” Hummer Winblad partner Lars Leckie will be joining the board of directors at Kiip. Kiip has hired former director of sales at Digg Chris Kobran as VP of sales and former EA Mobile employee Dan Silberberger as VP of business development. [Vator TV]

Marin Software is a company that makes search engine management tools for advertising companies. They have raised $16 million in Series E funding led by Crosslink Capital. DAG Ventures, Focus Ventures, Benchmark Capital, and Triangle Peak Partners also participated in this round. Marin now has a total of $51 million in funding.

The Washington Post Company has bought out iCurrent, a service where people can view news according to their interests. There is no word on what the acquisition price, but VentureBeat speculates that it is above $5 million. iCurrent was funded by Crosslink Capital, who plugged in about $3 million since the news company started in 2007. [VentureBeat]

Social networking company Hi5 has raised $14 million in a second round of funding. Hi5 plans to use the funding to expand their social gaming platform and increase virtual goods. Hi5 started making free games, but virtual decorations require real money. This round of funding was provided by Crosslink Capital and Mohr Davidow. [VentureBeat]