Ayeah Games said today it has closed a round of seed funding to develop its “social reality games,” which mixes social networking and breaking news. The Boston-based company was founded this year by Doug Levin, a serial entrepreneur. “Ayeah Games is about real people and real events and capitalizes on the rapid adoption of Twitter, Facebook and other social media platforms,” said Levin

Vanity Fair is out with its annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world.

Ever find yourself at a bar like Turtle Bay in midtown, buying brightly colored shots that essentially have no alcohol in them and that most people past (the first semester) of their freshman year in college wouldn’t be caught dead drinking, and stop to ask your buddies a serious question which is, “You think our waitress wants a piece of this?

General Motors Posts $1.3 Billion Profit (WSJ) Revenue soared 43% from a year ago to $33 billion for the April-through-June period as global production grew by 50%. Sales volume grew more modestly, rising 11% in the same period. The profit is GM’s largest since 2004 and first time its has two money-making quarters in a row since that time.

This is the moment we’ve been waiting for. The Big Guy is running for office

MKM Partners analyst Pablo Perez-Fernandez this morning repeated his Buy rating on Research In Motion (RIMM), asserting that investor focus on the company’s position in the U.S. is “misplaced,” and that BlackBerry sales in the August quarter have been better than expected in Latin America, Europe and Asia. He says

“It was almost out of fear of being left behind” said director Richard Kelly of his reasons for joining Twitter at last night's Power of the Tweet Poolside Chat for the L.A.