The Department of Justice’s 30-day review period of Google’s $400 million acquisition of supply side platform AdMeld has ended, so the agency has filed for an extension, Google’s Neal Mohan said in a post on the company’s public policy blog.

Unless the regulatory process is somehow speeded up in the case of Google’s latest acquisition of Admeld, the estimated $400 million deal that would add a new publisher-facing service to Google (NSDQ: GOOG) display/exchange business is at least several months away from actually being completed. That said, the announcement earlier…

Ad inventory optimizer AdMeld has raised a $15 million third round as it expects to attract more publishers making the move to online ad exchanges. With this round, AdMeld has raised a total of $30 million since opening its doors almost three years ago. The round was led by Norwest…

Online ad optimizer AdMeld has named former *Fox Interactive Media* and *AOL* exec Michael Barrett to the new post of CEO. Barrett left FIM (NYSE: NWS) amid an executive shake-up last April. Barrett joined FIM as EVP and chief revenue officer in 2006. Before FIM, Barrett was EVP for sales…

AdMeld, a provider of ad optimization technology, has raised $5 million of a planned $6 million first round according to peHUB, citing regulatory filings. Investors include Foundry Group and Spark Capital. Otherwise, not much is known about the stealthy, NYC-based company, except that President Ben Barokas and CTO Brian Adams…