Italian entrepreneur Marco Palladino is currently 22 years old - but he was only 19 when he first started looking for funding for his startup. For roughly 2 years, he and his cofounders met with every last investor on the Italian Peninsula and without any success. But despite their empty pockets, they weren't ready to throw in the towel on their startup, an

RockYou earlier this morning announced that it has acquired social game developer Playdemic.

Based in Manchester, England, RockYou says Playdemic will operate independently as a subsidiary studio and develop Facebook games for a mainstream audience. Paul