Overview
Location
United States, California, San Francisco
Employees
11-50
Mentions in press and media 6
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| Feb 11, 2010 | Zynga Buys Social Gaming Startup Serious Business | Zynga, the heavily-funded social gaming company, today announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire Serious Business, fellow creators of social games on Facebook. The terms of the agreement were not disclosed, but it appears to be m... |
| Nov 30, 2009 | Serious Business looks for life beyond Friends For Sale! | Friends For Sale!, the game where people can “buy” other people as if they are pets, has had tremendous staying power as a popular app on Facebook. Launched in November 2007, the social game has attracted more than 25 million registered use... |
| Nov 30, 2009 | Serious Business looks for life beyond Friends For Sale! | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more. Friends For Sale!, the game where people can “buy” other people as if they are pets, has had tremendous staying power as a popular app ... |
| Feb 11, 2009 | Virgance: Harnessing The Community To Save The World (Business Plan Included) | Virgance, a new startup headed by Powerset co-founder Steve Newcomb, is looking to change the world – and make some money doing it. The company, which features the tagline ‘Activism 2.0’, has announced that it has closed a round of seed fun... |
| Apr 25, 2008 | Lightspeed Funding Turns Facebook Application Into "Serious Business" | Less than a year ago Alex Le and Siqi Chen were working at one of the web’s most ambitious startups, semantic search engine PowerSet (Due out soon). But last December they made the tough choice to quit it all and go full time for their own ... |
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FAQ about Serious Business
What has the press written about Serious Business?
Parsers VC has collected 6 articles mentioning Serious Business, among them “Zynga Buys Social Gaming Startup Serious Business” (Feb 11, 2010) and “Serious Business looks for life beyond Friends For Sale!” (Nov 30, 2009).
Is Serious Business still active?
Serious Business is probably closed: its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Feb 11, 2010.