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Future US Buys News Aggregation Service Ballhype

Rafat Ali

Jul 15, 2008 2:13 PM

Future US, the once-parent of Business 2.0 and part of Future plc (LSE: FUTR), the UK based trade media company, has bought out BallHype, a Belmont, CA-based owner of basketball news aggregation site ballhype.com and celeb news aggregation site Showhype.com, for an undisclosed sum. The company was founded last year,…

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Posted In: Entertainment, Sports, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Mergers & Acquisitions, Social Media, ballhype, future us

Social News Site For Gamers N4G Gets Investment From Publisher Future US

Joseph Weisenthal

Feb 5, 2008 11:07 AM

N4G.com, a social news site for gamers, has taken an unspecified investment from Future US, an SF-based publisher of special interest magazines. The site will join Future US’ GamesRadar network of sites, which includes GamesRadar, FileRadar.net and Gloob.tv. Norway-based N4G offers Digg-like voting, broken down into various gaming categories, along…

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Posted In: Entertainment, Games, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital, future us, n4g

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