Maybe people don’t want to share everything online. Blippy, a site that let users share information about their “favorite purchases” with friends, is moving on. The site rose to fame and attracted millions in funding from the likes of Sequoia Capital and Twitter founder Evan Williams by allowing members to enter...
EMusic Reaches A Deal With EMI
eMusic, the online music “club” that offers members discounts on tracks in exchange for a monthly subscription fee, has struck a deal with a fourth major music label to add tracks to its catalogue. eMusic says its members can now access more than 15,000 albums from EMI.
Hyperlocal Network Main Street Connect Buys CentralMassNews
Main Street Connect, which owns 10 hyperlocal news sites in Connecticut, is expanding its portfolio significantly: The company has just picked up CentralMassNews, which owns ten local news sites in central Massachusetts. That means Main Street Connect will soon have 52 sites—when you include 32 sites that the company...
PopEater’s Warner Joins HollywoodLife
Mail.com Media Corp.‘s HollywoodLife has hired AOL’s Denise Warner as managing editor. At AOL (NYSE: AOL), Warner was one of the original employees at celebrity site PopEater and was most recently editor of that site.
LinkedIn Will Debut On The NYSE With A Market Value Of $4.275 Billion
LinkedIn, which will start trading on the New York Stock Exchange, has priced its shares at $45. That’s the high end of the $42 to $45 it said earlier this week it would sell its shares for—yet another sign that demand for the stock is extremely strong. At $45 a share, LinkedIn...
Zynga Makes Yet Another Buy; Picks Up DNA Games
Zynga has made its 14th acquisition in a year, picking up DNA Games, the two-year-old studio best known for Facebook game Casino City. Zynga says DNA Games will be “the core of a studio focused on creating new games.” Meanwhile, there are questions about when Zynga will release its...
LinkedIn Ups The Size Of Its IPO (Again)
LinkedIn, which is set to go public Thursday, has upped the size of its IPO—again—a sign that there’s been extremely strong interest in the stock from investors.
AOL’s Patch Targets Primary States For Expansion
Patch, which has continued to grow rapidly in the wake of AOL’s purchase of the Huffington Post earlier this year, is launching 33 hyperlocal sites in three states with early presidential primaries—New Hampshire, Iowa, and South Carolina. The new sites mean Patch will soon have sites in 21 states, up from its...
Yahoo’s Balogh Resurfaces At StumbleUpon
Ari Balogh, the Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) CTO and EVP of products who left the company a year ago, is joining StumbleUpon as its VP of engineering. The content recommendation service tells us Balogh will be a member of the company’s management team and will “oversee all of the company’s...
Rental Listings Firm Primedia Sold To PE Firm For $525 Million
Primedia (NYSE: PRM), the big print (and online) real estate listings company, has been sold to PE firm TPG Capital for $525 million, including debt. Primedia’s properties include rental publication Apartment Guide and housing publication New Home Guide, along with their accompanying websites, as well as real estate listings site Rentals.com.
Yahoo And Alibaba Tussle Over Alipay Handoff
The Alibaba-Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) “he says, she says” continues: Yahoo, which already had an embattled relationship with Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, in which it owns a 39 percent stake, says that Alibaba handed off a critical unit without its knowledge. In a statement, the company says it was notified on March 31 of...
