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 Tuesday, August 26, 2008 Technorati Buys Blogcritics San Francisco-based blog search and social media site Technorati announced Tuesday that the firm has acquired Blogcritics.org, an online community of bloggers. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. According to Technorati, the acquisition will give it more advertising inventory for the firm, and will also allow it to work with Blogcritics authors to help them monetize their own blogs. Blogcritics is a site publishing articles across a wide range of topics, ranging from politics, techno (More info...) posted on Tuesday, August 26, 2008(Full story) Brand.net Raises $10M San Mateo-based Brand.net, an online advertising network focused on brands, said Tuesday that it has raised $10M in a Series B funding round. The round was led by Norwest Venture Partners, and also included prior investor InterWest partners. Brand.net operates an online advertising network which specifically focuses on Fortune 100 brands. Robert Abbott of Norwest Venture partners joins the firm's board as part of the funding. The company said the funding will go to fund technology innovation at (More info...) posted on Tuesday, August 26, 2008 (More)(Full story) HP Wraps Up $13.9B Purchase of EDS Palo Alto-based computer consulting and manufacturing giant Hewlett-Packard announced today that it has concluded its record-setting acquisition of Electronic Data Systems Corp. HP said the $13.9 billion deal— first reported on May 13—represents the largest transaction, in terms of value, in IT services sector history. It is also the technology industry's second largest—only HP's 2002 purchase of Compaq is greater. HP noted that its merger with the Texas-based IT consulting firm results in (More info...) posted on Tuesday, August 26, 2008(Full story) hi5, Widgetbox Link On Widgets San Francisco-based Widgetbox, which operates an online site focused on web widget software, said today that it has linked up with online social networking site hi5. According to Widgetbox, hi5 will include widgets created by Widgetbox users. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. According to Widgetbox, hi5 has opened up its App Gallery to widgets created by the Widgetbox community, tapping the firm's OpenSocial API support for the additions. Widgetbox is venture backed by Hummer Winbl (More info...) posted on Tuesday, August 26, 2008(Full story) Aptana Buys Pydev San Mateo-based Aptana, a developer of web infrastructure and application management tools, said this morning that it has acquired Pydev, a developer of an integrated development environment for the Python software language. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Pydev's IDE is based on the open source Eclipse IDE software. Aptana is a developer of its own integrated development environments for JavaScript, Ruby on Rails, and PHP, with a focus on enabling AJAX web applications. Aptana i (More info...) posted on Tuesday, August 26, 2008(Full story) Qik Adds Andreessen, Horowitz As Investors Foster City-based Qik, which develops a interactive live video streaming service, said this morning that it has scored a "significant investment" in the company from Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz. Financial terms of the funding were not disclosed. Both of the two join Qik's board of advisors as part of the deal. Andreessen was co-founder of Netscape, and is currently chairman of social networking site Ning; Horowitz also was at Netscape, and was co-founder of Loudcloud with Andreesen. Horowit (More info...) posted on Tuesday, August 26, 2008 (More)(Full story) |
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