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Demand Media Buying Pluck, For About $67 Million

Mar 4, 2008 2:35 PM

As we had reported first in January, online publishing tools company Pluck was close to being bought out and now the company is making it official later today: it is being bought by Demand Media, the Santa Monica-based online domain and media company. The sale price is around $50 million…

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Posted In: Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Mergers & Acquisitions, Social Media, Technologies / Formats, RSS, Companies, Reuters, demand media, mayfield fund, pluck

Pluck on The Block; Sale Could Fetch Around $75 Million

Jan 7, 2008 2:21 PM

Social media and syndication technology firm Pluck is on the block, we have learned. The company hopes to get around $75 million, though that sounds high judging its business from the outside. Potential buyers include the likes of AOL (NYSE: TWX), Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) and Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT), and we…

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Posted In: Social Media, Companies, Reuters, mayfield fund, pluck

Major Media Companies Using Pluck Will Be Able To Mesh Social Nets With Facebook, OpenSocial

Nov 28, 2007 12:01 AM

It’s tempting to shrug off most of the announcements about this and that service embracing various social net standards as “well, duh”—but this one includes so many media outlets, it’s tough to ignore. Pluck, which serves more than 200 media web sites reaching tens of millions of users, will offer…

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Posted In: Social Media, Community, Companies, Facebook, Google, Reuters, Washington Post, pluck, sitelife

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