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 Send to email | Jeff Bezos Makes Yet Another Angel Investment: Social Gaming Network in AMZN |  By Silicon
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 Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has invested an undisclosed amount of money in Social Gaming Network, a leading game developer on Facebook and other social networks. Bezos did the deal through Bezos Expeditions, his personal investment vehicle.
Amazon (AMZN) has been making plenty of VC/angel investments, like the stake the company took last year in music startup Amie Street. But Bezos himself like is an active investor in digital startups. This is the second social gaming company he has invested in this year; in April, he pumped $3 million into Kongregate. And he's also funded Twitter, mobile location-based application Whrrl, and slideshow app Animoto in the last couple of months. Probably not a coinicidence: Bezos sold $135 million worth of AMZN this winter.
SGN got a $15 million Series A round in May, led by Greylock Partners and Founders Fund. That round is apparently separate from Bezos' investment. The company says they have 1.1 million daily active users across Facebook, MySpace and Bebo.
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| Raptr - Social Gaming Network Enters Public Beta [Raptr] | | Sometimes Facebook, Myspace, Bebo, Orkut and OpenSocial just aren't enough. Too much real world stuff, not enough gamerscore bragging. Enter Raptr - a new social network for gamers founded by Dennis 'Thresh' Fong (he had to do something with all tha [..] Read complete article | | Published 04-Sep-2008 by Stuart Houghton in Raptr Culture Live News psn Social Social Networking Steam Thresh WoW Xbla Xfire
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| TimesPeople, The New York Times' Social Network, Launching Tonight |  The New York Times (NYT) is launching its "TimesPeople" social network tonight, which lets you recommend stories to your friends and see what they're recommending and commenting on -- a useful, unintrusive feature that makes sense.
You'll also be able to share ratings/reviews of movies, shows, restaurants, and hotels; get RSS feeds of your friends' activity; or sync your activit [..] Read complete article | | Published 22-Sep-2008 by Silicon in NYT
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