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Rumor: Google In Talks to Acquire Brightcove for $500-$700 Million
Written by Frederic Lardinois / September 16, 2009 11:11 AM / 9 Comments

According to a tweet by Mark Glaser from PBS's MediaShift, Google is in talks with the white-label Internet

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Digital Media M&A: Mobile & Analytics Deals Up, Social Media Down
Written by Richard MacManus / July 3, 2009 3:17 PM / 0 Comments

Peachtree Media Advisors has just released their latest report on digital media mergers and acquisitions. We posted their

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Twiistup Bought by Private Investor; New Producer Upping the Ante
Written by Jolie O'Dell / May 11, 2009 11:30 PM / 4 Comments

Part New Tech, part Tech Set, all Southern California, the Twiistup events are a product of the rampantly

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Automattic Acquires PollDaddy: Polls Come to WordPress.com
Written by Frederic Lardinois / October 15, 2008 2:11 PM / 6 Comments

PollDaddy, the online polling and survey tool we use a lot here on RWW, has been acquired by

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EBay Buys Bill Me Later and DBA - Lays Off 1,000
Written by Frederic Lardinois / October 6, 2008 9:09 AM / 6 Comments

EBay today announced that it will acquire U.S. based online payments business Bill Me Later and the Danish

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$2 Billion Valuation Reported for Russian Blog and Email Portal
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / September 23, 2008 6:39 PM / 6 Comments

Fifteen percent ownership of Russian email, news and blog portal Mail.ru was purchased this summer for $300 million,

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Rumor: EBay Trying to Sell StumbleUpon
Written by Frederic Lardinois / September 19, 2008 9:22 AM / 16 Comments

According to a report on TechCrunch, eBay is trying to sell the popular recommendation engine StumbleUpon, which eBay

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African Social Media Tracker Afrigator Gets Acquired
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / September 5, 2008 10:28 AM / 11 Comments

Afrigator, a multimedia meme tracking site aggregating African blogs, podcasts and video, has been acquired by South African

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Is Lifestreaming Going Mainstream? AOL Set to Snag SocialThing!
Written by Corvida / August 15, 2008 6:55 AM / 11 Comments

While there are many popular lifestreaming services out there such as FriendFeed and Profilactic, SocialThing! can be

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Amazon Remembers Its Origins: Buys Abebooks
Written by Frederic Lardinois / August 1, 2008 8:35 AM / 1 Comments

Amazon today announced that it will acquire AbeBooks, the online marketplace for used and rare books. Given the

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Battle is Over: Icahn Will Join Yahoo Board
Written by Frederic Lardinois / July 21, 2008 8:45 AM / 1 Comments

Just last week we said that the proxy fight between Carl Icahn and the Yahoo board was going

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Microsoft-Yahoo: Setting the Record Straight Once More
Written by Frederic Lardinois / July 14, 2008 4:45 PM / 1 Comments

It seems Mondays are slowly becoming the traditional days for Microsoft/Yahoo updates. Today, Microsoft saw the need to

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Icahn/Ballmer: Microsoft-Yahoo Deal Still Possible if Yahoo Board Goes
Written by Frederic Lardinois / July 7, 2008 7:47 AM / 2 Comments

It wouldn't be Monday if there weren't some new saber rattling from Carl Icahn over the Microsoft-Yahoo deal.

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Hitwise: Yahoo Would be Just Fine Without Search
Written by Frederic Lardinois / July 3, 2008 3:00 PM / 5 Comments

Hitwise Intelligence took an interesting look at the breakdown of Yahoo's properties today. They come to the conclusion

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What's Next for Microsoft and Yahoo!
Written by Josh Catone / June 12, 2008 1:53 PM / 6 Comments

Update: Yahoo! and Google have indeed announced a partnership in the form of a non-exclusive deal allowing Yahoo!

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CBS Pays $1.8 Billion for CNet: CNet Shows How It's Done
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / May 15, 2008 7:39 AM / 6 Comments

In a deal that was surprising only in its price, CBS has announced that it will buy CNet,

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Comcast Plus Plaxo: Not a Pretty Picture!
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / May 14, 2008 4:44 PM / 14 Comments

Communications giant Comcast has acquired social web application Plaxo for an estimated $150m or more. Techcrunch confirmed the

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Bookmarking Meets Lifestreaming with Lifestream.fm Acquisition
Written by Josh Catone / April 30, 2008 7:25 AM / 2 Comments

German social bookmarking startup Mister Wong yesterday afternoon announced the acquisition of Lifestream.fm, a lifestreaming start up that's

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Pageflakes Acquired By LiveUniverse: Further Push Into Social Networking
Written by Josh Catone / April 18, 2008 5:00 AM / 9 Comments

AJAX start page provider Pageflakes officially announced today that it has been acquired by LiveUniverse. The deal is

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Consumating Closing Quietly, Demonstrates Another Side of a Startup's Life
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / February 14, 2008 5:34 PM / 3 Comments

We like startups and innovation here at RWW so we try to pay attention to the news good

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