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Meebo: Raising $25-$30 Million By One Report; Shifting Into Revenue Mode - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Tue 18 Mar 2008 08:12 PM PST

Mountain View, CA-based Meebo, the popular web-based IM service, is out raising a $25-$30 million round at a $200-$250 million valuation, reports VentureBeat. That’s up from a previous valuation of…

RiverWired Raises $1.5 Million Seed Round For Eco-Entertainment Video, Blogs - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Mon 10 Mar 2008 12:04 PM PST

Eco-centric community site RiverWired has raised $1.5 million in seed funding to support the creation of an online video series and related blogs. The content on the videos and blogs…

Women’s Site Wowowow Launches; Sparse For Now - 7 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sat 08 Mar 2008 07:09 PM PST

Woman-focused site Wowowow launched earlier today..the site has been founded by by five media live-wires Liz Smith, Lesley Stahl, Peggy Noonan, Mary Wells and Joni Evans, with Evans as the…

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Virtual Tours Provider EveryScape Gets $7 Million Funding - 0 Comments
Posted By Amanda Natividad - Wed 05 Mar 2008 11:00 AM PST

Waltham, MA.-based EveryScape has secured $7 million in its second round funding, led by new investor Dace Ventures and participation from existing investors Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Draper Fisher New England,…

Sparkplay Media Raises Raises $4.25 Million First Round For Browser-Based MMO - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Thu 14 Feb 2008 11:12 AM PST

Mill Valley, CA-based Sparkplay Media, a developer of 3D browser-based MMOs, has raised a $4.25 million first round from Redpoint Ventures and Prism Ventures. The company, which has been bootstrapped…

Industry Standard Relaunches As A Community Site; Interview: Bob Carrigan, CEO, IDG - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Sun 03 Feb 2008 10:01 PM PST

IDG’s The Industry Standard gets its second life on Monday, this time as a Web-only community site with a prediction market at the center. The magazine seemed to mirror the…

Internet Brands Acquires Community Sites HuntingNet.com, OffShoreOnly.com and Horsetopia.com - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Wed 23 Jan 2008 10:08 AM PST

Internet holding company Internet Brands has acquired three niche community sites: HuntingNet.com (hunting), OffShoreOnly.com (boating) and Horsetopia.com (equestrian). The sites will help beef up the company’s Travel & Leisure categories,…

Discussion Organizer Grouply Raises $1.3 Million First Round - 1 Comment
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Mon 14 Jan 2008 01:54 PM PST

Grouply, a service that helps people manage online discussions, has raised a $1.3 million first round, according to TechCrunch. The round included Reid Hoffman, SoftTech VC, Harvard Angels, and Western…

Lights, Camera, Action: MySpace Debuts Celeb Channel - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Thu 10 Jan 2008 09:10 AM PST

MySpace has often touted its promotional value to celebrities. It now has a specific channel that collects much of its star power in one place: MySpace Celebrity, billed as an…

Social Net For Service Industry BiteClub Raises $500k Seed Round - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Wed 09 Jan 2008 11:10 AM PST

SF-based BiteClub.com, a social net for people who work in bars and restaurants, has raised a $500,000 seed round from restaurateur Larry Mindel, Darius Anderson, of Kenwood Investments and other…

Online Sports Network Active Athlete Buys GolfBuzz - 1 Comment
Posted By David Kaplan - Thu 03 Jan 2008 12:02 PM PST

Online sports ad network and portal Active Athlete has acquired GolfBuzz, developers of publishing tools and technology for the golf community. Financial terms were not disclosed. Active Athlete was attracted…

Cooking.com Gets $7 Million Venture Loan To Build Community, Expand - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Wed 02 Jan 2008 09:54 AM PST

Cooking.com, a food-focused e-commerce and content site, has taken $7 million in venture debt from ORIX Venture Finance. The Santa Monica-based company is primarily centered around selling cookware, but it…

Broadband Content Bits: Joost/NBA/PBS; Chicago Tribune; MySpace; Freemantle - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Tue 18 Dec 2007 03:41 PM PST

-- Joost: Two new agreements with two very different programmers: the NBA and PBS. With the NBA, Joost will run “Instant Classic” basketball games and video highlights for the remainder…

Stock Market Social Net SocialPicks Gets $500k First Round - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Fri 14 Dec 2007 11:39 AM PST

SocialPicks, a site for retail investors to exchange investing strategies, has raised a $500,000 first round from Bay Partners, reports PE Hub. The Mountain View, CA-based site lets users create…

Penthouse Buys Adult-themed Social Net Various Inc. For $500 Million - 2 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Wed 12 Dec 2007 12:46 AM PST

Update: it has been announced officially. Penthouse Media Group has acquired adult-oriented social network operator Various Inc. for $500 million, NYT (FRB: 066570) reports. Various runs more than 25 social…

Music Blog Community MOG.com Links With Rhapsody, Integrates RNWK Service - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Tue 11 Dec 2007 08:46 PM PST

Music blog community MOG.com is integrating with Rhapsody from RealNetworks, (NSDQ: RNWK) adding the equivalent of another dimension by allowing bloggers and users to listen to, search for and share…

Community Site Grandparents.com Acquires GrandparentsMagazine.net, Acq-Hires Founder Katrina Wester - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Tue 11 Dec 2007 07:10 AM PST

Community site Grandparents.com is acquiring GrandparentsMagazine.net, a content and info site for grandparents. In what appears to be an acq-hire, the site’s founder and only employee, Katrina Hayday Wester, will…

StyleHive Acquires StyleDiary; Adds Content To Social Shopping - 6 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Tue 11 Dec 2007 05:23 AM PST

StyleHive, an SF-based social shopping site oriented towards fashion, has acquired StyleDiary, a fashion media site. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. StyleHive is basically a social bookmarking service,…

Ad Agencies Show Willingness To Forgive Facebook’s Beacon Missteps - 2 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Mon 10 Dec 2007 06:49 AM PST

The concern over Facebook’s Beacon ad system appears to be waning quickly into a non-factor among media buyers, Mediaweek reports. Not only are advertising agencies unlikely to pull their ads…

More On Fox Digital Media: Buying Beliefnet, Expanding Mission - 1 Comment
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Tue 04 Dec 2007 06:47 PM PST

As we explained last night, Fox Digital Media is expanding its role within News Corp., (NYSE: NWS) starting publicly with the acquisition of Beliefnet completed Tuesday morning. FDM, led by…

Disney Acquires Family Community Site iParenting Media - 1 Comment
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Tue 04 Dec 2007 04:27 AM PST

This is the first acquisition done out of the new Disney (NYSE: DIS) M&A group, but still inside its main focus area: it has acquired iParenting Media, a community and…

AFP Buys Stake In Cit-J Platform Scooplive, Offers To Media As White Label - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 29 Nov 2007 07:47 AM PST

Newswire Agence France Press (AFP) has bought a minority stake in Scooplive, a French citizen journalism portal that gives contributors commission on contributions sold to news media. The size of…

Major Media Companies Using Pluck Will Be Able To Mesh Social Nets With Facebook, OpenSocial - 2 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Tue 27 Nov 2007 10:01 PM PST

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…

Bebo Launches Open Media Platform For Social Viewing; 22 TV Partners - 2 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Tue 13 Nov 2007 06:59 AM PST

Bebo may have signed up to Google’s (NSDQ: GOOG) OpenSocial widget platform, but it’s trying to carve out the media platform space for itself. Today it’s launching Open Media, a…

More On Facebook Ads; No Way To Opt Out Short Of Clamming Up - 1 Comment
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Tue 06 Nov 2007 04:46 PM PST

Over at the NYT, Saul Hansell writes about turning Facebook users into endorsers. That’s one way of looking at it. Another is that, with the Facebook Ads program announced today,…