Ad Network Adconion Secures $34 Million To Support Acquisition Plans
Adconion Media Group has secured nearly $34 million (£21 million) in a financing from Silicon Valley Bank. The ad network, which is based i… Read more »
Writing Marketplace Helium Raises $10 Million More
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Writing community Helium has raised another $10 million in funding, the company tells us. Third-party publishers post writing assignments on… Read more »
Warner Music Sale Could Herald New Digital Outlook
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The winning bidder for Warner Music Group (NYSE: WMG) (WMG) is part-shareholder Access Industries, the diversified group owned by Russian-Am… Read more »
Bertelsmann Buys Digital Marketer Smashing Ideas For Random House
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Bertelsmann AG has acquired digital media agency Smashing Ideas, Inc. for its Random House division. While the match between an established… Read more »
Mobile Ad Network Jumptap Closes $25 Million Funding Round
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Mobile ad network Jumptap has closed a $25 million fourth round funding. The Cambridge, MA-based company plans to use the proceeds for hires… Read more »
Independent But Growing: Mobile Ad Network Jumptap Closes $25 Million Round
As consolidation continues in the mobile ad space — with Greystripe most recently getting bought by ValueClick (NSDQ: VCLK) — one of the r… Read more »
Draftfcb Buying Blue Barracuda Digital Production Agency
The Draftfcb ad agency is buying London-based digital production and marketing shop Blue Barracuda, to give it “a key strategic hub worldwid… Read more »
IAC’s CityGrid Buys Remaining Stake In Social Media Analyzer BuzzLabs
IAC’s local advertising network CityGrid Media has acquired the remaining stake in social media analyzer BuzzLabs as it looks to provide add… Read more »
Efficient Frontier Purchases Context Optional For Reported $50 Million
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Efficient Frontier, which is best known for its search engine marketing platform, is doubling down on the social media marketing space with… Read more »
Citizen Journalism Site Allvoices Sold To Digital Marketer Datran
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Citizen journalism site Allvoices has been sold to digital marketer Datran Media. The deal seems like an an odd tie-up, considering Datran i… Read more »
Disqus Raises $10 Million For Its Commenting System
Disqus, the popular commenting system, has raised $10 million in its first round of funding. The company’s platform lets sites — including… Read more »
News Corp.-Backed Honk.com Sold To TrueCar
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Honk.com, a News Corp.-backed startup which provides personalized recommendations to car shoppers, has been sold to TrueCar, a site which fe… Read more »
More European Investments Concentrated In Fewer Hands
The number of investments in to European companies in Q1 this year fell to the lowest level since Dow Jones (NSDQ: NWS) VentureSource starte… Read more »
TweetDeck’s Sale To Twitter Expected Soon
Oft-rumoured lately, the reported sale of the TweetDeck Twitter client to Twitter itself now looks more likely, with both TechCrunch and Reu… Read more »
Limelight Buys Web Content Management System Clickability
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Limelight Networks (NSDQ: LLNW), the publicly-traded content delivery network, has bought up Clickability, which is behind a popular web con… Read more »
Local.com Buys Local Shopping Search Engine Krillion
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Local.com is buying Krillion, a startup that offers a way to search inventory at local stores, in its latest move to diversify its offerings… Read more »
PopCap Buys Social Games Startup ZipZapPlay
PopCap Games, which is best known for casual games like Bejeweled but has been launching some very successful Facebook titles, has bought up… Read more »
Mediabank Acquires DSP AdBuyer
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Mediabank, one of a number of companies that is trying to expand the methods of online media buying to traditional media ad sales, has acqui… Read more »
Facebook Insiders Try To Sell $1 Billion Block of Shares
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Apparently there is a limit to Facebook’s rising valuation: Reuters (NYSE: TRI) cites five sources who say that a group of Facebook employee… Read more »
Technicolor Leads Digitalsmith’s $12.5 Million Funding Round
Video indexing firm Digitalsmiths has raised a $12.5 million third funding round as the business of data storage and content delivery are jo… Read more »
Visa Invests In Mobile Payment Startup Square
Visa has invested an undisclosed sum in mobile payments firm Square in what the companies are describing as a “strategic investment.” Square… Read more »
Yahoo Sells Delicious To YouTube Founders
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Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) has sold its Delicious bookmarking site to YouTube (NSDQ: GOOG) co-founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen in a move that lik… Read more »
Media Deals Have Bounced Back In Britain
The number of media-related mergers and acquisitions in the first three months of this year was about double up from the same period a year… Read more »
Halogen Media Acquires Social Marketer YouCast
For the past for years, there’s been a tug of war between paid media (aka “traditional advertising”) and earned media (“social media marketi… Read more »
Yahoo May Spin Off Hadoop Engineering Unit
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Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) is considering spinning off its Hadoop engineering unit into a standalone entity that would continue to develop the open… Read more »
VMware Buys Social Powerpoint Presenter SlideRocket
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Last week’s Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) server outage aside, managing data on the cloud is still likely to be a hot area this year, so it’s safe to… Read more »
PE Firms Buy Controlling Stake In Online Game Firm Bigpoint
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Two PE firms — Summit Partners and TA Associates — have purchased a controlling stake in online games company Bigpoint for $350 million. N… Read more »
Pearson Buying Schoolnet For $230 Million
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Pearson (NYSE: PSO), the owner of the Financial Times and book publisher Penguin, has acquired education technology company Schoolnet. Read more »
ExactTarget Raises $30 Million More In Part For M&A
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E-mail marketer ExactTarget has raised $30 million in new funding, which it says it will use to “fund key acquisitions, enter new global mar… Read more »
SurveyMonkey Buys Online Form Startup Wufoo
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Online polling service SurveyMonkey has bought up Wufoo, a startup that has developed a basic online form building tool that can be used to… Read more »
Yahoo Buys TV Check-In App IntoNow
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Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) has purchased IntoNow, a four-month-old startup that has built an iPhone app that automatically recognizes the TV show a… Read more »
Hotel Reviews Site Oyster’s New Backer: The Travel Channel
The Travel Channel is investing in Oyster.com, as part of the hotel review site’s latest funding round. The cable channel tells the New York… Read more »
ValueClick Buying Mobile Ad Net Greystripe; Estimated Price Is $75 Million
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Consolidation in the mobile ad network space appears to be accelerating, as display advertising and lead gen provider ValueClick is acquirin… Read more »
AT&T Tells FCC It’s Ready To Take Over T-Mobile’s Wireless Licenses
It’s official: AT&T (NYSE: T) petitioned the government Thursday to take control of T-Mobile’s wireless licenses, an important step in the p… Read more »
Blinkbox And Tesco Clubcard Will Marry Plastic Discs And Digital Streams
Blinkbox will connect with Tesco’s well-regarded customer loyalty programme to enable de-facto format-shifting of movies, after the supermar… Read more »
Discount Ticket Site ScoreBig Raises $14 Million
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Another day, another big funding round for an online ticketing startup. ScoreBig, a site that promises “members-only” access to below retail… Read more »
Reader’s Digest Buys Vertical Ad Network Haven Home Media
Reader’s Digest Association is making its first acquisition since emerging from bankruptcy just over a year ago, buying home and DIY-focused… Read more »
Blog Search Tool Lijit Raises $10 Million
Blog marketing and search provider Lijit Networks has completed a $10 million round of funding as CEO Todd Vernon aims to capture more ad sp… Read more »
Two-Way Media Financed By Ingenious To Make Social TV Games
TV games maker Two Way Media says it has done a “development and funding deal” from the Ingenious Media investment and advisory firm to fund… Read more »
Say Media Acquires Dogster To Build Out Lifestyle; More Deals Coming Soon
Social media marketer Say Media has acquired “pet lifestyles” blog network Dogster as part of a larger strategy to buy and build content sit… Read more »
