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Weekly Column: Inside the Deals: Look, Ma, No Debt - 1 Comment
Posted By Steve Rosenbush - Fri 16 May 2008 06:00 AM PST

If the recently salvaged Clear Channel (NYSE: CCU) buyout was the signature media deal of the 2006-2007 era, then the just-announced CBS (NYSE: CBS) acquisition of CNET (NSDQ: CNET) is…

Comcast And Plaxo Invite You To The Marriage Of Set-top Box & Social Software - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Wed 14 May 2008 04:30 PM PST

Just got off the phone from a tandem interview with Plaxo CEO Ben Golub and Comcast Interactive Media‘s Sam Schwartz. They weren’t willing to talk money but answered just about…

Comcast Acquiring Social Networker Plaxo - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Wed 14 May 2008 03:33 PM PST

Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) has acquired social networker Plaxo. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed in a Plaxo blog post announcing the news, but both TechCrunch and Reuters put the price…

Yahoo Supporting OpenID; Partners With Plaxo - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Thu 17 Jan 2008 07:46 AM PST

Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) has decided to support for OpenID, the decentralized identity system that allows users to sign into multiple sites with a single identifier. Starting with a beta launch…

Updated: Plaxo Puts Itself On The Block; Seeks $100 Million: Report - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Thu 03 Jan 2008 08:51 AM PST

Updated below: Social networking service Plaxo is putting itself up for auction and hoping to fetch up to $100 million, reports NYT. The Mountain View-based company, which was once infamous…