BetZip raises money for online poker
San Francisco-based BetZip has completed an additional funding round from venture capitalists and angel investors, reports theAlarmClock.
The company offes multi-user games, and has started with the online poker. It says it is legal because it makes it impossible to lose money — winners get prizes. It makes money by charging a $20 per month subscription.
From AlarmClock:
The company’s CEO is Jason Kellerman, who was CEO of LookSmart until January 2004. CTO Kevin Flood was GM at… Continue Reading
The significant response to wiki search idea
Wikia.com, the Silicon Valley company that is building an electronic library on hundreds of thousands of topics, has received a significant interest in its open search engine idea.
Wikia heard from 700 engineers volunteering help to build the search engine — and that interest was generated from a single article by the Times of London, Gil Penchina, chief executive, told VentureBeat last week. The search engine will resemble the Wiki format of Wikipedia. The idea is… Continue Reading