Portalarium , the social and mobile game company founded by game pioneer Richard Garriott, has raised a second round of funding. Altogether, the Austin, Texas-based startup has raised $3.6 million to date. The financing includes money from m8 Capital in the United Kingdom and Founders Fund (the investment fund which includes PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel) in San Francisco.

The Globe & Mail’s Paul Waldie and Body Erman posted a video this morning asking if Research in Motion’s (RIMM) co-CEO Mike Lazaridis should go. (A video preceded, I would note, by an add for the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet computer!) The question, as framed in the video, is whether the top “nerd,” Lazaridis, must go because he’s not “putting out the product.” Lazaridis shares the CEO role with Jim Balsillie , regarded more as the marketing/financial person.

via guestofaguest.com : We all secretly think that our taste in music is some magic map of our hidden depths, but when we actually have the opportunity to show someone what’s on our iPod, it’s Bon Jovi or a podcast on how to get gum out of your beard.

Sean Maloney, Intel ’s newly appointed president of Intel China, plans to deliver a keynote speech at the Computex trade show in Taiwan next week where he will unveil a heavy-duty effort to steer Intel into the production of low-power microprocessors. Maloney is expected to say that Intel will accelerate its efforts to make chips that are more appropriate for tablet computers, smartphones, laptops, and low-power desktops. Intel has been doing that for some time.

Here’s a “kaboom” for all those social game skeptics out there. Kabam has raised $85 million in a fourth round of funding to fuel its business making hardcore games for social networks such as Facebook. The backers include Google Ventures, Pinnacle Ventures, Performance Equity and SK Telecom Ventures, as well as earlier backers

GigaOm already stands out as one of the most heavily-funded sites in the tech news world — and today it nearly doubled that funding, announcing that it has raised another $6 million.

Shares of video game maker Take-Two Interactive ( TTWO ) are up 3 cents at $16.13 down 35 cents, or 2%, at $15.75, after the stock was briefly halted in advance of its fiscal Q4 report , which easily beat estimates. The outlook for this quarter and the year, however, fell short of expectations.

Shares of video game maker Take-Two Interactive ( TTWO ) are up 3 cents at $16.13 down 35 cents, or 2%, at $15.75, after the stock was briefly halted in advance of its fiscal Q4 report , which easily beat estimates.

Shares of video game maker Take-Two Interactive ( TTWO ) are up 3 cents at $16.13 down 35 cents, or 2%, at $15.75, after the stock was briefly halted in advance of its fiscal Q4 report , which easily beat estimates. The outlook for this quarter and the year, however, fell short of expectations.

Microsoft ( MSFT ) this morning offered up the latest iteration of its “Windows Phone 7″ operating system for smartphones, dubbed “Mango,” which the company promises will make smartphones “smarter and easier,” while adding 500 new features.