Google Slides into Social Gaming

According to New York Times source, Google just acquired Slide, a social networking gaming startup founded by Max Levchin. The New York Times reports the sale price as $228 million, while TechCrunch hears it's more like $182 million. That's a big enough disparity that we'll hold off on any kind of cost-based analysis, but the independent reports do suggest that the acquisition is very real.

Slide, the brainchild of ex-PayPal employee Levchin, began as a third-party photo sharing service, but...