Valleywag (Tuesday)
Former eBay CEO and wannabe California Governor Meg Whitman is known to have some, uh, anger issues. And now The New York Times says "Evil Meg" got physical with one employee in 2007, shoving her over... a Second Life interview? More »...

paidContent (Monday)

According to separate reports from Nikkei, Bloomberg and *Reuters*, gaming-company-on-a-tear Zynga has raised a huge $147 million round from Softbank, for expansion into Asia. This deal has been in the works for a few months, with initial talks centered around Softbank, one of the largest telecom...

paidContent (Monday)

According to separate reports from Nikkei, Bloomberg and *Reuters*, gaming-company-on-a-tear Zynga has raised a huge $147 million round from Softbank, for expansion into Asia. This deal has been in the works for a few months, with initial talks centered around Softbank, one of the largest telecom...

NY Times (Monday)
Twitter users will now be able to add specific locations to their Twitter posts.

GigaOm (Monday)
When Twitter announced in May that it planned to launch a new feature called Points of Interest based on a user's location, some expected it to be a "Foursquare-killer." Instead, both Foursquare and Gowalla are partners in the feature now known simply as Twitter Places.

Venturebeat (Monday)

Social gaming traffic has hit little hiatus. But the companies making social games are still hot. That’s one conclusion from a big deal announced today: Zynga has raised $147 million from Japan’s SoftBank, according to Bloomberg.

San Francisco-based Zynga is the biggest...