We recently wrote about the launch of a Y Combinator and TechStars -like startup incubator in Chicago, Excelerate Labs.

C$ cMoney , a mobile payments startup based in Houston, is having quite a week. On Friday, the company announced an impressive funding round of $100 million from private equity firm AGS Capital Group. In total, cMoney has secured $115 million in funding commitments from AGS and a NY-based firm called Kodiak Capital Group

Josh Harris lived through a version of the future—a future where TV is replaced by constant, live video chat/surveillance over the Internet—and it almost made him go insane. His experiments from a decade ago with filming people day and night in a New York City bunker, and then himself and his girlfriend in his own wired loft, were documented in the movie We Live In Public . Now, after many fits and starts, he wants to take another stab at making that future a reality through a new Internet TV project he is pitching called Wired City, which he explains to me in the video interview above

Tesla Motors Founder and CEO Elon Musk isn’t a man that backs down when facing the press. When the New York TImes wrote an error-filled article, Musk lashed out at the author, saying “What is he doing picking on an electric car company? Why would he pick on the little guy who is trying to do good when you’ve got egregious waste of money in the tens of billions occurring in Detroit?” He added “He’s a huge douchebag…and an idiot.” And that was just when a journalist was poking at Tesla.

Google has quietly (secretly, one might say) invested somewhere between $100 million and $200 million in social gaming behemoth Zynga , we’ve confirmed from multiple sources. The company has raised somewhere around half a billion dollars in venture capital in the last year alone, including $150 million from Softbank Capital last month and $180 million late last year from Digital Sky Technologies, Tiger Global, Institutional Venture Partners and Andreessen Horowitz.