Backyard launched this past December and was backed with $150,000 in seed funding from 500 Startups, Jason Calacanis, and Eric Schmidt’s Tomorrow Ventures. PixelFish, a local video marketing solutions company, has acquired Backyard. Backyard is a local business guide that is available on the web and on mobile devices. PixelFish has no plans of shutting down Backyard as a result of the acquisition.

MindJolt is a gaming company that is run by MySpace co-founder Chris DeWolfe. DeWolfe left MySpace a few years after News Corporation acquired the social network company.

Nolan Bushnell’s son Brent has raised seed funding to launch his first mobile gaming company called Doppelgames. XG Ventures and TomorrowVentures is investing between $250,000-$500,000 in Doppelgames. XG and TomorrowVentures are VC firms that are run by employees associated with Google. Google CEO Eric Schmidt is an investor in TomorrowVentures and XG was founded by four early Google employees.

Mobile gift start-up company Giiv has raised $3.35 million in Series A from investors that include Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) CEO Eric Schmidt, Saban Ventures, Founder Collective, and SK Telecom Ventures.  Schmidt invested in Giiv through his seed fund company TomorrowVentures.  Giiv’s mobile gifting service works through text messages, a Facebook application, and an iPhone application.  The text messages have a redemption code for store credits. [TechCrunch]

DOTGO has received Series A funding from EPIC Ventures and TomorrowVentures. The DOTGO platform allows any website to quickly create a mobile version with a focus on text messaging. Below is the full press release: