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Zynga Acquires Music Gaming Company JamLegend
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.
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Categories Andrew Lee, Arjun Lall, Hadi Partovi, JamLegend, Ryan Wilson, Zynga
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InDinero Raises $1.2 Million From Prominent Angels
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.
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Categories Ali Partovi, Andrew Warner, Ben Ling, Christina Brodbeck, Dave McClure, David Wu, Elad Gil, Fritz Lanman, Geoff Ralston, Hadi Partovi, InDinero, Jawed Karim, Jeremy Stoppelman, Jude Gomila, Karl Jacob, Keith Rabois, Kevin Hartz, Michael Powers, Paige Craig, Russ Siegelman, Steve Blank
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Wenda Harris Millard Becoming Head Of MySpace Ad Sales
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: