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• Going.com Raises $5 Million To Market It's Event Site

  Published: July 26, 2007, 1:22 pm

  Tags: Technology, Investing, Social Networking, Acquisitions, Marketing, Domains

  Going.com is really getting things going in the fundraising strategy, raising $5 million to help its self grow quicker than it’s competition. Going.com has grow to a half million users, most of which are in the hot demographic of 20-somethings from San Francisco, New York City, Chicago and Boston. General Catalyst and Highland Capital have

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• Business.com Sells for nearly $350 million

  Published: July 26, 2007, 11:54 am

  Tags: International, Technology, Acquisitions, Marketing, Domains

  Telephone-directory company R.H. Donnelley Corp. clinched a deal for Web-based marketing directory Business.com Inc. for between $340 million and $360 million, according to a person familiar with the transaction. In 1999 business.com was founded by Jake Winebaum and Sky Dayton that bought the name for $7.5 million, which was a lot of money at the

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• Pool Wins Bid to Be Official Auctioneer for .ASIA LandRush

  Published: July 25, 2007, 8:14 pm

  Tags: Investing, Landrushes, Technology, Acquisitions, Domain Auctions, Domains

  Pool has won the bid to be the official auction house for .ASIA domains during the land rush period. If a domain gets more than 2 requests for registration, then it will be auctioned at Pool. The process will employ EPP Commands and can be white-labeled by registrars for full integration. More details from pool More details on .ASIA

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• Domain & SEO Links for Today (7/27/07)

  Published: July 27, 2007, 1:34 pm

  Tags: Mobile Phones, Blogging, Investing, Domain Conferences, International, Technology, Acquisitions, Marketing, Domains, Mobile, Google, Domain Auctions, Seo

  Domain & SEO Links that I know you’ll love! Great Moments in Advertising: 1982 Gates and Gibbons Jerry Gibbons, President of Doyle Bane Bernbach Advertising met with client Bill Gates of Microsoft in 1982. Our feeling is that you're not spending at a level that's appropriate for your company right now' Gibbons told Gates, whose

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• iCrossing Acquires Proxicom After $62 Million Funding

  Published: July 31, 2007, 9:25 am

  Tags: Sem Industry Acquisitions

  Internet marketer iCrossing acquires Va. firm from azcentral.com reports iCrossing has purchased Proxicom, a web development firm based in Virginia after getting $62 million last week. Janet at Marketing Pilgrim looks at the other firms they have recently acquired and speculates that iCrossing is on a value building exercise.

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• Acquisitions: The 'New York Press' To Become Community Paper

  Published: August 1, 2007, 1:20 pm

  Tags: Acquisitions, Alt Weeklies, Martin Basroon, Media, New York Press

  Lost amidst all the hubbub about Rupert Murdoch's takeover of Dow Jones is this little nugget: The little alternative weekly that could, the New York Press, got bought yesterday! Its new owners are...

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• Mergers And Acquisitions Dept.: Dell Goes After Some Zing

  Published: August 7, 2007, 1:00 am

  Tags: Dell, Gadgets, Mergers Acquisitions Dept, Portable Media, Software, Zing

  Dell announced today that it's acquiring Zing in order "to continue improving the entertainment experiences it provides its customers." The short, vague announcement (check it post-jump) is a bit surprising because Zing's bread and butter is Wi-Fi music players (Sansa Connect, Sirius Stiletto, Pandora's Wi-Fi player), and Dell hasn't really had

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• HomeBanc Mortgage Corporation Selling Retail Assets to Countrywide

  Published: August 8, 2007, 1:59 pm

  Tags: Mortgage News, Mortgage Bubble, Merger Acquisitions, Mortgage Bubble, Mortgage News, Homebanc, Countrywide, Funded, Assets, Preserving, Retail, Operations

  operations.” Merger/Acquisitions, mortgage bubble, mortgage news ---Related Articles at Consumer Mortgage Reports:Impac Mortgage Holdings Suspends Alt-A Funding; Stock PlungesGlobal Market Jitters - Part 1Global Market Jitters - Part 3 The Leverage BubbleGlobal Market Jitters - Part 4 Buffet Says We Will Be Paying The US Government AND

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• Mergers And Acquisitions Dept.: Blockbuster/Netflix Blood Rivalry Gets Bloodier: Blockbuster Buys Movielink

  Published: August 9, 2007, 5:23 am

  Tags: Blockbuster, Home Entertainment, Ip Video, Mergers Acquisitions Dept, Movielink, Video, Video Downloads, Vod

  Blockbuster's acquisition of Movielink makes it a bit late to the IP VOD party, but we get the feeling the goal isn't so much to break new ground as it is to plant their feet more firmly in their showdown-to-the-death with Netflix. In the deal, Blockbuster also picked up the rights to show flicks owned by Movielink's now-former owners, which

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• Google 10-Q Reveals Rewards, Risks of Being Google

  Published: August 9, 2007, 3:27 pm

  Tags: Google Acquisitions

  Google has completed 10 acquisitions for $183.6 million or $18 million on average. Revenues for 2007 (so far) are approximately divided as follows: 52 percent U.S., 15 percent U.K. and 33 percent rest of world. Click to continue reading...

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• IPO Alert: CreditCards.com's $100M+ IPO

  Published: August 11, 2007, 2:43 pm

  Tags: Investing, Business, Technology, Acquisitions, Marketing, Domains

  Creditcards.com has filed an S-1 filing with the SEC to start the process of an IPO. The company wants to raise around $115 million with this IPO. In October 2006, we paid approximately $133.8 million in cash (including approximately $350,000 in transaction fees and expenses) and issued approximately 2.1 million shares of Series A-1 convertible

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• Venus Williams Launches New Clothing Line

  Published: August 23, 2007, 12:32 pm

  Tags: Sports, Celebrity Acquisitions

  Add Venus Williams' name to the list of celebrity endorsers who claim to "own" a clothing line. Today, tennis star Venus Williams will announce that she is signing an endorsement deal with Steve & Barry's, the retailer that has made plenty of waves with its Starbury shoe, which it sells for $14.98. The deal from the very start is already the most

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• Accoona's IPO Backfires, Again

  Published: August 24, 2007, 1:30 pm

  Tags: Business Issues Acquisitions Amp Investments

  Web search IPO stalls on underwriter doubts from CNN Money reports that Accoona's expected $80.5 million IPO has failed due to their underwriter backing out. Maxim Group, their underwriter, backed out after completing an in-depth review of the company. The New York Times reported Edward L. Rose, the firm's vice chairman and general counsel for

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• Radian to Provide Business Update

  Published: September 5, 2007, 8:44 am

  Tags: Merger Acquisitions, Mortgage Industry Press Release, Mortgage News, Mortgage News, Radian, Rdn, Mtg

  (more…)Merger/Acquisitions, Mortgage Industry Press Release, mortgage news ---Related Articles at Consumer Mortgage Reports:MGIC Investment and Radian Group Terminate MergerNAR President Issues Statement on Bush's Proposed FHA ChangesFannie Mae Announces 2008 Benchmark Securities(R) CalendarFormer Employees of Countrywide Financial

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• MGIC Investment and Radian Group Terminate Merger

  Published: September 5, 2007, 8:42 am

  Tags: Merger Acquisitions, Mortgage Industry Press Release, Mortgage News, Mortgage News, Mgic, Radian, Zeehandelaar, Terminate, Mona, Merger, Mike Zimmerman, Katie Monfre, Rdn, Mtg

  (more…)Merger/Acquisitions, Mortgage Industry Press Release, mortgage news ---Related Articles at Consumer Mortgage Reports:Radian to Provide Business UpdateNAR President Issues Statement on Bush's Proposed FHA ChangesFannie Mae Announces 2008 Benchmark Securities(R) CalendarFormer Employees of Countrywide Financial Who Invested in

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