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Feedburner-Google Deal In Final Stages, Possible $100 Million Value: Reports

Lots of chatter over the past few days about a possible acquisition of Feedburner by Google, starting with a “rumor” from Sam Sethi at Vecosys based on a “very trusted source” who said Google wanted in on the RSS ad market. Now multiple reports—TechCrunch, ClickZ—each quoting a single source say an agreement is in place. TechCrunch goes farther and pins a price tag of about $100 million, primarily cash upfront, on the deal, adding that the founders will be locked in for “a couple of years.”

A Feedburner exec told me the usual “no comment on rumors and speculation.” More as warranted.

May 23, 2007 5:12 PM ET
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Posted In: Advertising, Technologies / Formats, RSS, Companies, Google

  • Google are really smart and probably going to take over anything they will wish for…

    but we can only thank Google for the FREE search engine :]

  • google certainly knows how to get ahead, i wonder how Yahoo and MS would counter this.

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