Brill, Crovitz & Co. Sell Journalism Online To RR Donnelly
That was fast. Just shy of two years after launch, Steve Brill, Gordon Crovitz and Leo Hindery Jr. have sold their “make journalism pay” bus… Read more »
Color Me Intrigued: Color App Launches With $41 Million In Its Pocket
Hard to say yet whether this is just another spark from the over-rubbed balloon that is today’s social media startup world, or an actual spa… Read more »
SocialVibe Raises $20 Million For ‘Engagement’ Ads
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SocialVibe, which has developed “engagement ad units” used by a number of big-name sites and Facebook apps, has raised $20 million in a new… Read more »
@ CTIA: Sparks Fly Over AT&T-T-Mobile Deal As Wireless CEOs Trade Jabs
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Just days after AT&T’s stunning announcement of its intent to purchase T-Mobile, the men who would lead the three remaining dominant U.S. wi… Read more »
Meltwater Buys Social Media Monitor JitterJam
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Meltwater Group is purchasing its second social media monitoring startup in just over a year, as it continues to expand beyond its roots mon… Read more »
WPP Buys Another Digital Agency; This Time, In Vietnam
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WPP has a venn diagram representing its two fastest-growing segments – digital and emerging-markets. Now it’s making another acquisition rig… Read more »
Skinkers Agency Buying Mobile Developer Umee
Another acquisition that points to the ongoing covergence and consolidation in the mobile and digital media industries, this time in the UK. Read more »
Early Reaction To AT&T-T-Mobile: Bad For Public, Good For Bored Regulators
How is AT&T’s blockbuster proposal to acquire T-Mobile USA being seen by the tech and wireless communities? A sampling of reactions to the h… Read more »
AT&T Acquiring T-Mobile For $39 Billion; Let The Scrutiny Begin
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While everyone else was waiting for news that Sprint (NYSE: S) was about to merge with T-Mobile USA, AT&T (NYSE: T) had a different deal in… Read more »
Updated: Facebook Buys Feature Phone Developer Snaptu For Up To $70 Million
Facebook has made one of its biggest moves yet in its strategy to dominate mobile services: the social network has acquired Snaptu, a develo… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 03-18-11
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» The NYT paywall arrives
» The Newsonomics of The New York Times’ pay fence
» Selling Video Scoops Onlin… Read more »
Glam Media Buys BBS Media As Part Of Canadian Expansion
Lifestyle blog network Glam Media has acquired Canadian brand advertising media company BBS Media (Boxer B-Scene Media). The deal, terms of… Read more »
KIT Digital Buys Polymedia For $34.4 Million
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KIT Digital’s long (and expensive) shopping spree continues: The online video services provider is paying $34.4 million to purchase Polymedi… Read more »
Just-Eat Gobbles $48 Million Funding To Go Global
Just-Eat, the local online takeaway menu aggregator and order facilitator, has taken on a $48 million second venture funding round to fund i… Read more »
Google Buys Green Parrot Pictures To Boost Quality Of YouTube Uploads
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Google (NSDQ: GOOG) has purchased Green Parrot Pictures, a small Irish company that has built video quality technology used in big films, su… Read more »
Magazine Printer Sold Amid Digital Challenge
St Ives Plc, a printing group, is selling its magazine printing business after it had been buffeted by competition and online ad migration (… Read more »
Bay Citizen, Texas Tribune To Split $975,000 Knight Tech Grant
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Two of the most prominent and well-funded non-profit news startups will use nearly $1 million from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundatio… Read more »
Social Ad Net RadiumOne Raises $21 Million For Acquisitions
RadiumOne, an ad network that targets ads around users’ social graph, has closed a $21 million second round funding to support its internati… Read more »
Real-Time Search Lives On: Topsy Raises $15 Million
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Search startup Tospy has raised $15 million in a new round of funding. The company, which ranks results based on what’s being shared by “inf… Read more »
Leo Burnett Buying Airlock Digital Agency
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Publicis’ Leo Burnett ad group is buying Airlock, a London digital comms agency, Airlock announced. Read more »
Angry Birds’ Rovio Raises $42 Million From Accel And Skype Founders
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Big news today from Rovio, the Finland-based developers behind the hugely successful Angry Birds mobile game: the company has picked up $42… Read more »
Daily Mobile Lowdown: Square; OpenFeint; OpenText/WeComm
Our look at some of the big stories in mobile: Square fends off accusations from VeriFone; OpenFeint launches a fund with The9 to bring more… Read more »
Resurgent StumbleUpon Raises $17 Million
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StumbleUpon, the content recommendation service that eBay (NSDQ: EBAY) purchased for $75 million in 2007 and then sold back to its founders… Read more »
Widgetbox Rebrands As Display Platform Flite, Raises $12 Million
Ad tech firm Flite (fka Widgetbox) has raised $12 million third round as it completes its rebranding from a community for widget developers… Read more »
Photo Social Network DailyBooth Raises $6 Million
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DailyBooth, a social network that lets users share photos in real-time, has raised $6 million in a first round of funding. DailyBooth users… Read more »
Chinese Real Estate Site Anjuke Raises $50 Million In Round Led By Baidu
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Chinese real estate site Anjuke is getting a huge influx of cash in part thanks to Baidu (NSDQ: BIDU). The search engine has led a $50 milli… Read more »
Fourth Wall Studios Gets $15 Million For Transmedia Production
Fourth Wall Studios, a firm that has created transmedia marketing extensions for movies like Watchmen and Eagle Eye, will launch an “alterna… Read more »
Google Ventures, Sequoia Capital and Salesforce Back HubSpot
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Three huge Silicon Valley names — Sequoia Capital, Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Ventures, and Salesforce.com — are investing in HubSpot, as part of… Read more »
Analysts Say News Corp’s BSkyB Deal Is On, But Sky News Could Suffer
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Analysts say News Corp.’s (NSDQ: NWS) bid for BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) is likely to happen, after it made a proposal to divest Sky News that ticks… Read more »
Next New Networks To Be Folded Into YouTube; CEO Siebert Resigns
Following several weeks of rumors, webisode syndicator Next New Networks has been sold to YouTube (NSDQ: GOOG), co-founder and CEO Fred Seib… Read more »
Google Buys British Comparison Shopping Site BeatThatQuote
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Google (NSDQ: GOOG) has purchased BeatThatQuote, which bills itself as the fastest growing price comparison site in the U.K. for $62 million… Read more »
It’s Official: AOL Now Owns The Huffington Post; Announces New Hires
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AOL (NYSE: AOL) CEO Tim Armstrong said from the stage at paidContent 2011 that the company was within days of closing its $315 million deal… Read more »
CBSi Buys Clicker; Lanzone Replaces Ashe As President
CBS Interactive (NYSE: CBS) is acquiring Clicker, the self-styled “TV Guide” for online video, and is installing Jim Lanzone, Clicker’s co-f… Read more »
Digital Marketing M&A Values Have Gotten ‘Frothy’, WPP Says
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In its 2010 interim earnings report on Friday, WPP says it will continue to buy digital marketing agencies: “Valuations remain reasonable, p… Read more »
Demand Media Buys Blogging Service CoveritLive
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Demand Media (NYSE: DMD) has made its first acquisition since its initial public offering in January, purchasing popular live blogging tool… Read more »
SB Nation Buys Two Sites; Expands College Sports, Global Soccer Coverage
A few months after taking a $10.5 million funding round, sports blog network SB Nation has made two acquisitions that will broaden its cover… Read more »
UK Government Approves News Corp Spinoff Plan For Sky News
The culture secretary, Jeremy Hunt, has approved News Corporation’s plan to spin off Sky News, clearing the way for its proposed £8bn purch… Read more »
The Mobile Lowdown: Nokia, Apple iPad Pricing, Square, Disney
Our rundown of mobile news to start your day. Nokia’s MeeGo payoff; what the ASP of today’s iPad tells us about what’s next; Square hits $1… Read more »
Publishers Do Promos, Part 2: Axel Springer Buying German Coupon Site
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On the same day New York Times (NYSE: NYT) announced its daily deals initiative, another publisher is getting in to the same space. Read more »
Publishers, Waterstones Turn Book Discovery Network In To Retail Store
HMV (LSE: HMV), HarperCollins, Penguin and Random House are financing a new “social retail” service aiming to help readers find, buy and sha… Read more »
