Did you get a text message or e-mail from the Barack Obama campaign late Friday night (on the West Coast)? I didn’t and I’m supposing a few others didn’t receive…

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Mansell Group, a data-based marketing company, has bought e-mail marketer Sevista Technologies. Terms were not disclosed. Atlanta-based Mansell will merge Sevista with its existing e-mail marketing unit, EnableMail. With this…

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Some acquisitions barely need explanations. That’s not always the case when Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) Interactive Media opens the virtual checkbook; people are still asking me about Plaxo and today’s announcement…

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Silverpop, a maker of on-demand software for marketers, has raised $15 million from DFJ and DE Shaw in order to accelerate R&D and to do acquisitions. The Atlanta-based company, which…

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Xoopit, a social networking service based around email, has raised a $5 million first round from Accel Partners and Foundation Capital. The service works with webmail services like GMail, and…

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The e-mails newsletter and marketing industry is certainly seeing a lot of activity with IPOs (ConstantContact and ExactTarget) and consolidation. Now GSI Commerce, the e-commerce solutions firm, is buying e-mail…

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Blue Sky Factory, a provider of email marketing solutions, has acquired Blogarithm, a service that sends email alerts whenever a selected blog or website has been updated. Blogarithm claims to…

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Another e-mail delivery software company files for an IPO: first was ConstantContact, earlier this year, and now Indianapolis-based ExactTarget, a provider of on-demand e-mail marketing software. It filed its S-1…

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Shares of e-mail newsletter manager Constant Contact surged in the company’s public market debut, closing at $27.64—well above the $16 price set before the IPO. The stock is one of…

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Constant Contact, which manages and delivers e-mail newsletters (including ours), has priced its IPO, which it initially filed for in July. The company says it will sell 6.7 million shares,…

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Browser app provider Mozilla is breaking out its Thunderbird e-mail tool into a separate company, similar to what Mozilla did. Mozilla, which will still run its Firefox browser, is providing…

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Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) will take its new e-mail service out of beta on Monday, finally, and roll out the service to around 254 million active users around the world—although they’ll…

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Constant Contact, the e-mail newsletter management and delivery firm (we use the company’s services for our sister site MocoNews.net and ContentSutra’s newsletters, and soon moving this site’s newsletter as well),…

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Rich e-mail design start-up Gigya raised $4 million from Benchmark Capital in its first financing round, Globes Online reported. The Israel-based company was founded in Nov. 2006 by several former…

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An odd blend here ... BigString Corp., which specializes in self-destructing email, has acquired DailyLOL.com, a viral video site launched just two months ago. No financials; DailyLOL founder Chris Ruesink…

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Here’s a way to look at it: think of the good, old sturdy e-mail newsletter as packaged RSS...newsletters as more packaged editorial, RSS as more stream of consciousness and hence…

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Constant Contact, the e-mail newsletter management and delivery firm (we use the company’s services for our sister site MocoNews.net’s newsletter), has scored a big $15 million round. This round of…

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Consolidation continues in the e-mail vendor space, as holding company J.L Halsey is indulging in a small rollup: the company, which bought Lyris in May, has acquired Uptilt Inc., which…

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I had a run in with the Media Post log-in process this morning and ended up registering again. I signed up so quickly I didn’t pay attention to what came…

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FierceMarkets, the Washington DC-based e-mail newsletter company, has bought out IT-Wireless e-mail newsletter from Emerge Media. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. IT-Wireless covers the latest mobile enterprise solutions,…

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It’s almost comforting to know we’re not the only ones whose permission emails sometimes get caught in trigger-happy spam filters—even when the subscriber adds the email address to a “whitelist.”…

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(via Susan Mernit) A nice story on the e-mail fashion/style newsletters,including Daily Candy and London-based Urban Junkies. UJ launched in 2003, and has built up a devoted following among its…

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Scripps actually tries to track every e-mail newsletter that doesn’t get through, raising the deliverable rate five percent his year by adding staff and resources. A software upgrade boosted the…

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Bill Gates is in a very talkative mood these days. This time he’s chatting with the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (German text)about Windows Mobile, portable music and plans to leave Microsoft’s…

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E-mail marketing and delivery pioneer Lyris is being acquired by J.L. Halsey, a holding company, for nearly $24 million in cash, along with a promissory note of $5.6 million. John…

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