San Francisco - Kongregate, a publisher of free social online games, has received a $3 million investment from Amazon.com (NASD: AMZN) founder Jeff Bezos' Bezos Expeditions, SiliconValley.com reported.

Indianapolis, Ind. - ChaCha, a "human-powered" search engine, announced on Wednesday that it has raised $8 million in private equity funding and received a $2 million grant from Indiana's 21st Century Technology Fund.