Another media partnership for LinkedIn, which is striving to be more than a place to check contacts. This time it’s CNBC and the business social net in a “significant strategic…

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Update: We found out the sale price: it is about $10 million, our sources say. Original post: Lifetime Networks’ digital push continues with its first acquisition—picking up privately held ParentsClick…

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I’ll resist the temptation to make a crack about how at least somebody is making money on the Zune, but… Zuneboards, a community site devoted to Microsoft’s (NSDQ: MSFT) iPod…

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-- NFL extras available through Verizon: Starting this weekend Verizon (NYSE: VZ) video and wireline broadband subscribers can watch as the NFL kicks off preseason games. Users can access live…

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VendAsta has raised C$3 million (US$2.8 million) for the development of MyFrontSteps, a social networking service to help people improve their homes. Funding came from Victoria Park Capital. The idea…

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Education.com, an education info site for parents, has raised a $9.75 million second round led by California Technology Ventures, along with past backers Azure Capital Partners and TeleSoft Partners. The…

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Garena, an online gamer community based in Singapore, has raised $2 million from angels, according to Alarm:Clock. Investors include Skype co-founder Tovio Annus and the Government of Singapore. The site,…

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Updated: Facebook says the decision to block Scrabulous for U.S. and Canadian users was made by the Scrabulous developers, not Facebook. The social net forwarded the DMCA notice to the…

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As social nets look to increase their ad revenues, MySpace is taking a more serious stab at the online classified market with a new channel. The Fox Interactive unit’s new…

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-- MPAA creating movie site to fight piracy: The MPAA is developing a yet-to-be named site that will allow users to search for films to legally download photos, purchase box…

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For awhile, there was nothing Twitter could do right. Frequent crashes would prompt a slew of angry bloggers to rant about the service in lengthy posts that criticized the company…

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Now you see it, now you don’t ... screenshots and descriptions of the Facebook facelift slated to go live Monday are flying around but the url that is supposed to…

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-- Jaman announces distribution deal with Paramount: Jaman.com has just inked a deal with Paramount Digital Entertainment, in which many of the studio’s movies, including Beowulf, Sweeney Todd: The Demon…

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Because the elite can’t be seen networking with the rest of us… Spire.com, a social networking site for folks whose net worth is $250k or more, has raised a rich-looking,…

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Chinese social networking site Xiaonei already has a reputation for basically being a Facebook knock-off. Now it’s copying Facebook’s strategy too. The company, owned by Oak Pacific Interactive, has announced…

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TripAdvisor, the travel review site owned by Expedia, has made two acquisitions: VirtualTourist, a user-gen travel site, and OneTime, a travel comparison site. Both were founded by J.R. Johnson and…

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SodaHead, a community site for the debate of serious topics, has raised an $8.4 million second round led by Mission Ventures, along with past backer Mohr Davidow. The Santa Clara,…

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Before this year, moms could have issued a plaintive “You never call, you never write...” to newspaper sites and other major media companies. But now, everyday is practically Mother’s Day,…

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I’ve spent some time off and on today with the latest tool from NYTimes.com: TimesPeople, a Firefox add-on that functions as a combo recommendation engine and low-frills social network. The…

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They’re more of an e-commerce play, but Cooking.com has been trying to glom onto the whole content, social networking tip as well… the food-focused marketplace has raised $13 million in…

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Last November we wrote about Fatdoor, the stealth local content site from ex-Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) exec Jennifer Dulski but we didn’t know much beyond the fact that it had raised…

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Parentpedia. Family Blogger. Comment Contest. Consider these just some of the elements of DisneyFamily.com that laid the groundwork for the company’s next project, the summer launch of its parent-focused social…

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WooMe, a service that offers speed dating via internet video, has raised a $12 million second round led by Index Ventures. NewTeeVee first reported the news yesterday, VentureBeat confirmed it…

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My Team Zone, a social networking service for amateur sports teams, has raised a $2.3 million first round from unidentified investors, according to VentureBeat. Basically, the company makes online software…

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SheKnows, the network of women sites owned by AtomicOnline, continues the company’s near-weekly string of acquisitions with the purchase of two pregnancy community sites, the company tells paidContent. SheKnows’ latest…

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