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Four Firms Hoping To Tap Into Facebook's 500M Users

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RealGifts , San Diego - a facebook application which allows users to send both real and virtual gifts to their friends. Sometrics , Los Angeles - Sometrics, originally founded as a provider of analytics for Facebook apps, is now also powering virtual goods and currency tools for social games on Facebook and other platforms.

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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 4

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Zong is obviously doing something right since they are now the preferred mobile payment platform for Facebook’s mobile credit offering but will compete against some serious guns – Boku has raised nearly $40 million from Benchmark, Index, DAG and Khosla Ventures – the A list of who’s who VCs. 15mm in Series A.