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Industry Moves: Feedburner Founder Costolo To Exit Google

Jul 7, 2009 1:38 PM

Former Feedburner CEO and Co-founder Dick Costolo joins the stream of senior level ad exec departures at *Google* within recent months. Google (NSDQ: GOOG) bought out Feedburner for $100 million in 2007, and quickly integrated its RSS feed monetization technology into AdSense. (It also aggravated many publishers with bugs and…

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Google Shuts Feedburner Ad Net; Publishers Offered AdSense For Feeds Instead: Report

David Kaplan

Aug 13, 2008 11:35 AM

RSS distributor FeedBurner has shut down its FeedBurner Ad Network, according to a report on Search Roundtable. Calls to Feedburner and Google (NSDQ: GOOG), which bought the company for about $100 in June 2007, weren’t returned. A note attributed to Matt S. (possibly Matt Shobe, Feedburner’s co-founder and CDO) on…

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Posted In: Advertising, Social Media, Technologies / Formats, RSS, Companies, Google, feedburner