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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 - 7 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…

Updated: WordPress In Play, Velocity Among Others In The Mix; WP Buys - 3 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 18 Oct 2007 11:51 AM PST

Updated: Automattic, the company behind WordPress, the popular commercial blog software , is a sales candidate, according to our sources. The difference between Automattic’s hopes and what buyers are willing…

Advertising Blog AdRants Sells Major Stake To MarketingVox - 1 Comment
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 16 Oct 2007 08:40 AM PST

AdRants, one of the oldest advertising industry blogs, has sold a major stake to Watershed Publishing, the parent company of online marketing blog MarketingVox, among others. The deal is a…

CBS Buys 10-Month Old Celebrity Gossip Blog Dotspotter; Price Around $10 Million - 9 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 10 Oct 2007 07:34 PM PST

CBS (NYSE: CBS) has bought 10-month-old celebrity gossip blog Dotspotter, for a price of around $10 million. The rumor was first reported on Valleywag, and has also been confirmed to…

BoingBoing TV: Daily Video Updates From Xeni And The Gang - 1 Comment
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Tue 02 Oct 2007 04:49 PM PST

Eclectic, popular webzine-turned-blog BoingBoing.net is going video gaga. Starting Wednesday, tv.boingboing.net will bring the group blog’s “directory of wonderful things” to video through 3-5 minute daily reports on weekdays. The…

Manganovel Offers Market For Reader-Translators Of Japanese Manga - 1 Comment
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Tue 02 Oct 2007 04:30 PM PST

Manganovel and Toshiba have launched Manganovel, a site which serves as a distribution channel for Japanese manga publishers and allows readers to post their own translations of the manga comics…

HuffingtonPost Raises Another $5 Million; Same Investors Including Pittman - 2 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 25 Sep 2007 09:46 PM PST

HuffingtonPost, the uber-blog, has quietly raised another $5 million in a second institutional round of funding. The round included all previous investors: Softbank Capital, Greycroft Partners, CEO and co-founder Ken…

Dogtime Raises $1 Million From Angels - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Fri 14 Sep 2007 10:43 AM PST

Dogtime Media, which sells ads to a network of pet-related sites, has taken in $1 million from angel investors, notes Alarm:Clock, which found a Craigslist help wanted posting saying as…

Germany’s Hubert Invests In Seed’s ScienceBlogs; Launching Local Version - 1 Comment
Posted By Robert Andrews - Fri 14 Sep 2007 05:30 AM PST

German media group Hubert Burda has bought a minority stake in New York-based science publisher Seed Media Group to bring its ScienceBlogs network to Europe. Launched in 2006, ScienceBlogs is…

Web on TV: Will It or Won’t It? - 1 Comment
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 13 Sep 2007 07:37 PM PST

Will blogs and personalities translate well onto TV? That’s the big question, and some efforts to experiment in that direction: -- Gossip and celebrity blogs on TV: TMZ’s on TV…

Non-Profit Online News Startup MinnPost Raises $1.1 Million In Contributions - 1 Comment
Posted By David Kaplan - Mon 27 Aug 2007 12:11 PM PST

MinnPost.com, a daily news site focused on the Twin Cities, is planning to launch later this year. But instead of going the usual routes of looking for venture financing or…

Blog Ad Network FM Publishing Receives $4.5 Million Second Round Funding - 1 Comment
Posted By Rafat Ali - Fri 24 Aug 2007 02:26 PM PST

FM Publishing, the high-profile blog ad network founded by John Battelle, has raised $4.5 million n its second round of funding, PEHub reports, citing SEC documents. The round was led…

DailyCandy On Sure Financial Footing,Trying To Age Gracefully - 1 Comment
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Tue 14 Aug 2007 09:56 AM PST

Seven years after its shoestring launch, profitable DailyCandy has nearly 2.5 million subscribers and a valuation of $130 million. But the collection of newsletters about style and trends may be…

Boston-Area Business News Blog Xconomy Gets First Round Funding - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 09 Aug 2007 10:12 AM PST

A Boston-area focused tech and business news blog Xconomy has received its first round of funding..the amount was undisclosed. The round was led by CommonAngels, an angel investment group based…

Teen Marketing Blog YPulse Sells Minority Stake To Modern Media - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 06 Aug 2007 06:20 PM PST

Teen marketing blog and events company YPulse has sold a minority stake to Modern Media Partners, a business conferences and media production firm. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.…

Associated Content Raises $10 Million In Second Round - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Wed 01 Aug 2007 10:38 AM PST

We reported last month that online publisher Associated Content was working on a second round of funding. That round was announced today—$10 million led by Canaan Partners. Existing investors, including…

Discovery Buys Green Lifestyle Blog/Site Treehugger For About $15 Million - 3 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 01 Aug 2007 09:07 AM PST

Discovery Communications has bought out the popular green-lifestyle and news site Treehugger. Terms were not disclosed, but our sources say that piece is around $15 million, and that includes performance…

Cit-J Site NowPublic Gets A Big $10.6 Million Round of Funding - 3 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sun 29 Jul 2007 09:00 PM PST

Vancouver-based NowPublic.com, the citizen journalism news site which recently signed a deal with AP to collaborate on coverage, has received a relatively big $10.6 million in its first formal round…

AOL Starts Remake Of Money & Finance Site - 3 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Wed 25 Jul 2007 07:23 PM PST

Late Wednesday, AOL.com continued its remodeling binge—this time for its high-ranking Money & Finance site, hoping that a major remake will keep its current users engaged and finally will gain…

B5media Acquires Blog Network Level9 - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 18 Jul 2007 09:21 AM PST

A smallish blog network acquisition: B5Media, the blog media network, has bought a smaller blog network Level9 Media. Level9 has a network of eight blogs. B5 based out of Toronto,…

Fisher Communications Acquires Hyperlocal Start-up Pegasus News - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Tue 17 Jul 2007 07:59 AM PST

Seattle-based Fisher Communications has acquired hyperlocal pioneer Pegasus News. No deal details but it looks like a form of acq-hire since Mike Orren, president of Pegasus News, and his team…