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Zynga Acquires Music Gaming Company JamLegend

Amit Chowdhry | April 20, 2011 | 637 views | Add a Comment
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Social gaming company Zynga has acquired JamLegend, a music gaming company. JamLegend is a start-up that was planning on competing directly with Rock Band and Guitar Hero. JamLegend will be shut down and the team will be absorbed into Zynga.

InDinero Raises $1.2 Million From Prominent Angels

Amit Chowdhry | September 12, 2010 | 1,009 views | Add a Comment
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InDinero claims that they are like a Mint.com for Quickbooks. The company has raised $1.2 million in seed funding from several prominent angel investors.

Wenda Harris Millard Becoming Head Of MySpace Ad Sales

Amit Chowdhry | August 21, 2009 | 1,069 views | Add a Comment
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Wenda Harris Millard used to be the Co-CEO of Martha Stewart Living.  Before Martha Stewart, Millard worked for Yahoo! as the Chief Sales Officer.

Now Millard will be taking over advertising sales at MySpace.  While working for the head of advertising sales at MySpace, she will also remain as the president of median consulting company Media Link. MySpace sales boss Jeff Berman will be leaving the company as Millard joins.

Some of MySpace’s new hires include:
- Jason Hirschhorn as chief product officer
- Mike Jones as COO
- iLike CEO Ali Partovi, President Hadi Partovi, and CTO Nat Brown through an acquisition
- Katie Geminder as SVP of user experience and design
- Mike Macaadan as VP of Product

Below is the full press release of the announcement:

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