Yahoo! has bought upcoming.org, Andy Baio's events service:

"In just a few years, most of it spent on nights and weekends, the Upcoming team has built an excellent site with a loyal and growing following. Now that theyíve joined Yahoo!, together weíll build a social events platform that will integrate with our existing events offering and other areas of Y!, and will continue to support all web users in an open, participatory way."

Congrats Andy and partners!

Also announced today: Newsgator's acquisition of NetNewsWire. Om mentioned that NetNewsWire was one of my guesses a week or so ago, but I must admit my bet was more of a long shot. Oh well, perhaps Newsgator will buy a blog search engine some other time :-)