What you need to know - 9/27/2011

Facebook gets political; CareCloud raises $16.6M; picking a music service is no music to your ears

Canadian-based HomeSav.com raised $1.2M in seed funding for home decor flash sales. Investors include the founders of Shopper’s Drug Mart and the founders of a Canadian high-end home furniture retailer.

Social gaming company Peak Games announced Tuesday that it has secured $11.5M  from Earlybird Venture Capital,  Hummingbird Ventures, and a strategic investor, bringing the company’s total raised to $19 million.  

Founded in 2010, Peak Games is going after emerging markets including Turkey, the Middle East, North Africa, Mexico, and South America.

CareClouds, the healthcare solutions startup, raised $16.6 million in a Series A round led by Intel Capital, with help from Norwest Venture Partners.  The new capital adds to the $7.8 million in angel funding the company raised last year, for a total of $24.4 million.

 CareCloud currently serves more than 1,000 healthcare providers in the U.S. and is currently processing more than $500 million in accounts receivables for the healthcare providers it serves. 

After spending over one million in lobbying since 2009, Facebook creates a political action committee. The company filed to create its own political action committee(PAC) Monday and has registered the domains FBPAC.us and FBPAC.org. Its purpose is to tackle issues such as online privacy and security for the private industry, freedom of expression on the Internet, discussion of location-based services, amending the criminal penalty provision for copyright infringement, allowing government and congressional offices to access social media to interact with citizens and many more.

As the new Facebook rolls out, many music services are hoping that you will pick them to listen, and build your music library while using Facebook.

The choice is between Spotify, with MOG, Turntable.fm, and Pandora . So we broke it down for you, reviewed each provider,  to make your decision a bit easier.

Mindblood announced  Tuesday the launch of its new game, Mindbloom Life Game. This new game helps you define what is important in life and how to get it. Mindbloom Life Game promises of improving gamers' life, not only virtually but in the real world taking a deeper approach to gaming by focusing not on play but on the science behind behavioral change -- integrating technology, art, and human psychology for a holistic approach to life, and nurturing a "Life Tree'. 

Google+ is now a top 10 social media networking sites,- right behind MySpace.Last week Google removed restrictions on Google+ and opened to everyone, and traffic rocketed. Web traffic tracker Experian Hitwise reported this afternoon that Google+ now number 8 in its rankings of top social networking and forums Web sites, and got 15 million U.S. visitors last week, putting it just behind MySpace.