Stock photography and video footage leader sold out for $2.4B

Published in February 29th, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Acquisitions, Barclays Capital, Business, GE Commercial Finance, Internet, Media, Money, Multimedia, Public Companies, RBS Greenwich Capital, Software, Technology, Venture Capital
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Getty Images Inc. the world’s leading creator and distributor of visual content and other digital media announced today that it has entered into a definitive merger agreement to be acquired by affiliates of the private equity firm Hellman & Friedman LLC in a transaction valued at approximately $2.4 billion, including the assumption of existing debt.
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ETech, the O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference is coming

Published in February 28th, 2008
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Yelp: $200M valuation, $31M total funding, 8M uniuqes, SEO – all for local reviews

Published in February 27th, 2008
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The entire internet advertising market was estimated at $21B in 2007

Published in February 26th, 2008
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Glam Media raises a massive round of funding - $85M

Published in February 25th, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Accel Partners, Advertising, Business, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Duff Ackerman & Goodrich Ventures, Entertainment, Funding, GLG Partners, Hercules Technology Growth Capital, Hubert Burda Media, Information Capital, Internet, Investments, Marketing, Media, Money, Venture Capital, Walden Ventures
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Most recent Facebook and MySpace visitor numbers

Published in February 24th, 2008
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Ancestry.com has been bought out by a private equity firm, preparing for an IPO

Published in February 23rd, 2008
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Page creator Jimdo landed the Samwer Brothers as investors

Published in February 22nd, 2008
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Mint.com - the financial-planning startup with an army of high-profile investors

Published in February 21st, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Business, First Round Capital, Funding, Internet, Investments, Money, Ram Shriram, Ron Conway, Shasta Ventures, Software, Technology, Venture Capital, Web 2.0, angel investors
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Peanut Labs closes its Series A round of funding

Published in February 20th, 2008
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Microsoft’s stock has fallen 13% since its offer for Yahoo

Published in February 19th, 2008
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Sharing digital media start up has raised $2.5M

Published in February 18th, 2008
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fix8 has taken $3M for animated avatars for your cam

Published in February 17th, 2008
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Qunar, a Chinese travel search engine, raised $10 million

Published in February 16th, 2008
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Revver, the video-revenue sharing site finally sells out, but the price is not hefty

Published in February 15th, 2008
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InfoSpace has sold its mobile unit for $135M to Motricity, the second prepares to go public

Published in February 14th, 2008
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Yahoo makes an acquisition of its own – the online video platform Maven Networks

Published in February 13th, 2008
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And here is what Microsoft has to tell Yahoo!

Published in February 12th, 2008
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Yahoo’s official response to Microsoft’s offer: NO!

Published in February 11th, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in AOL, Acquisitions, Advertising, Business, Google, Internet, Microsoft, Money, Public Companies, Search Engines, Society, Software, Technology, Yahoo
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YuMe, a broadband video advertising network, has taken $16M so far to tackle the video advertising

Published in February 10th, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Accel Partners, Advertising, BV Capital, DAG Ventures, Funding Comcast, Internet, Investments, Khosla Ventures, Media, Money, Multimedia, Software, TV, Technology, Venture Capital, Web 2.0, video
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