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Andrew Busey has been a part of some key web technologies over the past 15 years, such as Mosaic (the first web browser) and iChat (one of the first IM apps). He also co-founded Pluck.

Yet, Busey's passion is gaming. So, a couple years ago, he started a new company in the space: Challenge Games.

In fact, this week the firm raised $4.5 million from Sequoia Capital (keep in mind that the firm has invested in such break-out companies like Atari, Electronic Arts and nVidia). The venture capitalist on the deal, Roelof Botha, learned about the company while playing its popular title, Duels.

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Challenge gets $4.5 million to play games originally appeared on BloggingStocks on Fri, 11 Jul 2008 17:09:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Sirius Satellite Radio CFO, David J. Frear, will be doing double duty over the next several months. His controller, Edward Weber Jr., has resigned. Weber is off to bigger and better things (for his own career, maybe) as CFO of Major League Baseball Advanced Media.

Is this a case of a major member of the management team jumping ship, or is Sirius acting as farm team? Either way, it can't be good news for the satellite radio company.

Sirius controller resigns, called up to majors originally appeared on BloggingStocks on Wed, 29 Mar 2006 18:31:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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