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—Zynga: David Wehner, an investment banker from Allen & Co., has joined as Zynga’s CFO. He replaces Mark Vranesh, who has become chief accounting officer and will report to Wehner.  Prior to joining Allen & Co. in 2001 as managing director, Wehner was VP of corporate development at tech-focused investment banking firm Hambrecht &...
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»  Skype co-founders’ Atomico Ventures invests over $6 million in pay-to-bid auction site MadBid.com.»  Blip.tv develops pre-roll v...
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»  MindJolt CEO Chris DeWolfe talks about his post-MySpace (NSDQ: NWS) career and social gaming.»  Disney (NYSE: DIS) and Playdom may be in...
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»  Disenchanted Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) executives may be in secret discussions to oust CEO Steve Ballmer.»  Microsoft may raise its q...
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»  A wood-pellet company owner named Paul Ceglia is suing Mark Zuckerberg, claiming that the two had an agreement in which Ceglia would get a large ownership porti...
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Today we had our paidContent Mobile: Leveraging the Smartphone Boom conference at Columbia University in NYC. During the full-day event we discussed the blurring of lines between online and mobile and the resulting opportunities in the industry for mobile content companies, online giants, marketers, app developers and venture capitalists alike. Some highlights:

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»  Founders Fund has closed its third fund with $250 million in capital commitments. The firm had raised $220 million for its second fund in 2007.»&...
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»  Redbox is developing an online streaming strategy to compete with Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX).»  E! co-founder Alan Mruvka is launching a celeb...
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»  Google (NSDQ: GOOG) News gets a redesign in response to users’ complaints.»  Former Google News and Bing engineers team up for digita...
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»  Sony (NYSE: SNE) Music plans to open its own online store dedicated to classical music.»  Yellow Pages will get 39 percent of revenues f...
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