Time Reliance Zapak Games and Jump Games from India take notice of SGN.Jeff Bezos backs Social Gaming Network : The Social Gaming Network , a start-up that develops games for social platforms such as Facebook and OpenSocial, has received an undisclosed amount of funding from Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos' personal investment firm, Bezos Expeditions. This comes just months after the company closed a $15 million Series A from Greylock Partners, the Founders Fund, and others. Founded by the creators of Web 1.0 page creator Freewebs (which now calls itself Webs.com), the Social Gaming Network has assembled a portfolio of popular Facebook applications, such as Jetman, Super Snake, and Free Gifts, some of which it acquired from independent developers. It counts more than 54 million game installs.
SGN is one of the more prominent players in the casual-game space. It competes with Zynga, which was created by Tribe.net founder Mark Pincus.
The aim of the new funding, according to CEO Shervin Pishevar, is "to continue capturing new demographics in gaming by distributing the highest-quality games available on the social Web."
Bezos Expeditions also joined the most recent round of Twitter funding.
Source: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-9990125-36.html
He ranks among the top 15 people who changed the internet .
Source: http://www.yugatech.com/blog/the-internet/top-15-people-who-changed-the-internet/
Jeffrey Preston Bezos had that same experience when he first peered into the maze of connected computers called the World Wide Web and realized that the future of retailing was glowing back at him. It's not that nobody else noticed--eBay's Pierre Omidyar also knew he was on to something. But Bezos' vision of the online retailing universe was so complete, his Amazon.com site so elegant and appealing, that it became from Day One the point of reference for anyone who had anything to sell online. And that, it turns out, is everyone.
Source: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,992927-2,00.html
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