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Tiny Speck Raises $10.7 Million

Tiny Speck has raised $10.7 million in a second round of funding from Andreessen Horowitz and Accel Partners. Next week Tiny Speck will be launching a beta test of their online social game Glitch. Tiny Speck was founded by Flickr co-founder Stewart Butterfield. Yahoo! acquired Flickr in 2005 and since then several employees left to join Butterfield on this venture. Glitch has several APIs for building game add-ons. Alpha testing of Glitch started about a year ago. This investment will be used for speeding up the game development and the infrastructure behind it. [VentureBeat]
Flickr Co-Founder Stewart Butterfield Working On Online Video Game Company Called Tiny Speck

Stewart Butterfield, the co-founder of Flickr is now working on an online video game company Tiny Speck. Before building and selling Flickr to Yahoo!, Butterfield originally wanted to create an online video gaming company.
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