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Blog Reading: Kind Of Like Getting A Nicotine Fix: Study - 1 Comment
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Wed 16 Apr 2008 08:48 AM PST

As someone who’s checked the Drudge Report once an hour, every hour for the last 10 years of my life, I can certainly accept the idea that the sites I…

Confirmed: Federated Media Receives $50 Million Third Round; Interview With Battelle - 1 Comment
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 15 Apr 2008 05:30 AM PST

As has been widely expected, Federated Media, the online blog advertising network, has announced that it has received a $50 million minority investment from late-stage investors Oak Investment Partners. Oak…

Buzznet Explains Idolator Buy; Plans To Dedicate More Resources - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Mon 14 Apr 2008 11:52 AM PST

In his memo announcing the sale of three blogs, Gawker chief Nick Denton explained that the sites would be better fits in their new families. Buzznet, the LA-based music music…

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Denton Slims Down Gawker Media: Gridskipper, Idolator, Wonkette Leave The Fold - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Mon 14 Apr 2008 07:44 AM PST

Blog network Gawker Media is playing gin again, laying down three sites, while picking up none. In an internal email, via SAI, Gawker chief Nick Denton announced that music blog…

Don’t Hold Breath For TechCrunch-Silicon Alley Insider Pairing - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Wed 09 Apr 2008 08:45 PM PST

We’ve been told multiple times over the past few days that TechCrunch and upstart Silicon Alley Insider are in talks about partnering in a range of ways from a formal,…

Buzznet Confirms Stereogum Acquisition; Launching Videogum - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Fri 04 Apr 2008 07:26 AM PST

Buzznet, the LA-based pop culture site, has confirmed its acquisition of Stereogum, as we first reported last weekend. The announcement is light on details, except that it plans to launch…

Industry Moves: Google’s Armstrong No Longer Associated Content Chairman; Perlis Steps In - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Fri 14 Mar 2008 02:41 PM PST

Tim Armstrong will remain an investor in Associated Content but is no longer chairman and no longer on the board, the company said late Friday. Board member Michael Perlis is…

The Gossip on Jossip: Trying To Sell Itself - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 13 Mar 2008 01:52 AM PST

Jossip, the Gawker-Media-wannabe network of popular media and celebrity focused blogs, has put itself up for sale, and even got NYP’s Keith Kelly to write about it. That should help...also…

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…

Break.com Buying Business News Blog Wall Street Fighter - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 03 Mar 2008 10:57 PM PST

Break Media, the LA based online entertainment company which owns video sites Break.com and an ad network, is acq-hiring a business media blog called WallStreetFighter, we have learned. The announcement…

IDG Expands Ad Network To Outside Blogs - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Sun 02 Mar 2008 09:51 PM PST

IDG has completed the first expansion phase of its IDG TechNetwork. As Bob Carrigan, IDG Communications’ CEO, told us last month, the company had been planning to open up the…

Outbrain Raises $5 Million First Round For Blog Rating And Recommendations - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Mon 25 Feb 2008 12:29 PM PST

NYC-based Outbrain, a startup that lets users rate and receive blog recommendations, has raised a $5 million first round Gemini Israel Funds, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and GlenRock Israel, which has…

Bleacher Report Raises First Round For User-Gen Sports Commentary - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Tue 19 Feb 2008 01:44 PM PST

SF-based Bleacher Report, a site for user-gen sports commentary, has raised an unspecified first round led by Hillsven Ventures. Other backers include Transcoast Capital, Jakob Lodwick (Vimeo) and other Silicon…

VC Deal Blog VentureBeat Raises $320k First Round - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Mon 11 Feb 2008 03:04 PM PST

VentureBeat, the VC deals blog whose reports we frequently cite, has gone to the VC well itself, raising a $320,000 first round. Investors include ex-Googlers Georges Harik and Aydin Senkut,…

Blog Ad Network Federated Media Hires Banker To Vet - 4 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 23 Jan 2008 01:29 PM PST

Federated Media, the high-profile blog ad network founded and run by John Battelle, has hired investment bank Savvian, potentially to look for more funding, and maybe a sale for the…

Automattic Raises $29.5 Million Second Round, After Sale Talks; Includes NYT Investment - 1 Comment
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Tue 22 Jan 2008 09:31 PM PST

Updated: Correction: Polaris (and not True Ventures) led this current round, having put in $20 million of the total $29 million raise. The VC firm also led the seed round…

Blogging Tool Triggit Gets $500k - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Thu 17 Jan 2008 01:28 PM PST

Triggit, an SF-based company that helps bloggers quickly grab content, has raised $500,000 in convertible debt from Bay Partners, reports GigaOM and others. The company offers a toolbar that lets…

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…

SixApart Sells LiveJournal To Russian Company; All About Growing Up - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sun 02 Dec 2007 08:11 PM PST

LiveJournal, the pioneering online journal-writing/blogging service which was bought by MovableType parent company SixApart almost three years ago, is now being sold off to Russian online media company SUP. The…

NYT’s Keller Warns On ‘Unreliable’ News From Google, Others - 4 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Sat 01 Dec 2007 03:10 PM PST

From our sister site paidContent:UK: New York Times (NYSE: NYT) executive editor Bill Keller has warned the news business is falling victim to the “media tsunami” of the internet world…

Updated: Blog Media Firm GigaOmni Media Raises Second Round - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 14 Nov 2007 11:24 PM PST

Updated: The company has officially announced it here, and says that the amount is more than the $1 million reported, but did not disclose the exact amount. Besides additional money…

MSLO Launches Ad Net; ‘Martha’s Circle’ Includes Lifestyle Sites, Blogs - 2 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Tue 06 Nov 2007 09:24 AM PST

Ace Hardware, Macy’s and Bank of America are among the first advertisers in the new Martha’s Circle, an ad network launched today by Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia. The ad network…

More On Google OpenSocial: MySpace, Bebo, SixApart Join Alliance - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Thu 01 Nov 2007 03:40 PM PST

More details are seeping out about Google’s (NSDQ: GOOG) intergalactic OpenSocial alliance ... The latest news out of Mountain View, where a developers’ conference is underway: MySpace officially is on…

@ FOBM: Technology Business Media: Finding A Place In The Food Chain - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Tue 30 Oct 2007 12:12 PM PST

Thanks to a superb rally of analogies, the Future Of Business Media conference momentarily sounded like a seminar on the groceries industry. But it was an important and amusing metaphorical…

Real Estate Blog Curbed Gets $1.5 Million Funding - 5 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 30 Oct 2007 03:45 AM PST

Curbed, an NYC-based real estate blog, has raised $1.5 million in funding, after being in existence for a few years now. The site was founded by Lockhart Steele, who previously…