-- Katie Couric anchoring *CBS* web specials: Katie Couric will anchor live web exclusives from the 2008 Democratic and Republican National Conventions, scheduled to air right after the primetime coverage…

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LiveRail, a developer of technology for video advertising, has raised $500k from Pond Ventures. The raise brings the company’s total funding to about $1 million, according to NTV. The company…

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RSS distributor FeedBurner has shut down its FeedBurner Ad Network, according to a report on Search Roundtable. Calls to Feedburner and Google (NSDQ: GOOG), which bought the company for about…

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We’ve definitely noticed increased interest in the Russian internet market, marked notably by Google’s (NSDQ: GOOG) acquisition of a contextual ad firm from Rambler and the planned IPO of Yandex,…

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Technology to identify copyright violations online has always been a bit dicey. A recent entrance in the space is Anvato, a Mountain View, CA-based startup, that says it can find…

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Liberty Media (NSDQ: LINTA) president and CEO Greg Maffei said that the company sought to “take advantage of market weakness” in Q2 and so repurchased 18.1 million shares of Liberty…

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-- Joss Whedon’s ‘Sing-Along’ resurfaces on Hulu: Now you see it, now you don’t, now you see it again. Sci-fi director and writer Joss Whedon’s web series, Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along…

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After Google (NSDQ: GOOG) completed its acquisition of DoubleClick earlier this year, it announced plans to divest itself of Performics, the search marketing firm that came with the package. That…

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Online search and information site Infospace posted Q2 net income of $1.9 million ($0.06 per diluted share) from last year’s $28.1 million ($0.86 per share) net loss. Net income in…

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Google (NSDQ: GOOG) has launched its free music search engine in China, in a sector which has seen its fair share of controversies. The users can search for songs by…

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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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The FCC lambasted Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) for blocking traffic from some P2P users and evading its official position on the matter in a long awaited and 3-2 split ruling today.…

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Monster, the incumbent job site, has announced a couple of deals this afternoon, as it looks to fight off upstart competitors, like LinkedIn, Craigslist, Indeed.com and TheLadders… first it has…

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Clickable, a New York City-based online search advertising and marketing startup, has received $14.5 million in its second round. The round was led the Founder’s Fund, as well as its…

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Zubican, a recently launched business search site, has announced investors including Athenaeum Capital, Pasadena Angels, Tech Coast Angels, along with founders and executives of JAMDAT Mobile, mp3.com, NTI Group, Overture…

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Cambridge, UK-based online search firm True Knowledge has closed its second round of funding...the funding was led by existing investors Octopus Ventures and angel investors. It brings the total raised…

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Sporting News Today debuted Wednesday with about 35,000 advance subscribers; less than a week later, publisher Ed Baker told paidContent, the number of people getting free delivery of the digital…

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If you must think of every new thing as the “something-killer” then you’d probably call Life123 an About.com-killer, or a Mahalo killer, or a Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Knol killer. Fortunately,…

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ESPN.com is planning a major site revamp, but first, it wants to get search right and will then build around some of its new functions. On Thursday, the Disney-owned sports…

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-- ProQuest: Media exec Gordon Crovitz has joined ProQuest’s board of directors. After leaving his posts as publisher of WSJ and president of Dow Jones’ (NYSE: NWS) Consumer Media Group…

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Even as online advertising market is showing some signs of weakness, online ad firms are continuing to get funding: ContextWeb, the NYC-based contextual advertising company, has closed over $26 million…

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The story of Podtech has changed dramatically over the last year or so: first it lost its CEO, laid off staff and failed to raise venture money, and now its…

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This is a tough time for any company selling premium-priced services to hedge funds… Monitor110, a NYC startup that analyzed raw, unstructured internet content to help hedge funds make decisions,…

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Become.com, one of many players in the comparison shopping game, has raised an $8 million fourth round, according to VentureBeat, which doesn’t know the investors. The Mountain View, CA-based company…

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Clickability, a provider of on-demand web content management software, has raised a $3.5 million debt round from SaaS Capital, according to VentureWire (not online). SaaS Capital is devoted exclusively to…

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