Today’s funding and acquisitions news roundup from across the web:
Web Content
Hotel Room Auction Startup Off & Away Raises $2 Million From Madrona (via TechCrunch)
kaChing Gets $100M under Management and Gets All Wall Street with a New Name (via TechCrunch)
Goby Raises $2.5 Million For Activity-Driven Search Engine (via TechCrunch)
Betterfly Buys Music Instructor Listings Site Teachlist (via TechCrunch)
A startup once again, Kontiki raises $10.7M to give each company its own YouTube (via DealsBeat)
SkillSlate grabs $1.1M to find local service providers (via DealsBeat)
Gaming
EA Buys ‘Angry Birds’ Publisher Chillingo For $20 Million, Doesn’t Get ‘Angry Birds’ (via TechCrunch)
GreenTech
On the GreenBeat: MBA Polymers raises $25M, Solar Components gets $2.8M (via GreenBeat)
Marketing
Real-Time Marketing Service Optify Raises $6.1 Million (via TechCrunch)
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