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Site / Service
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| 10/9/2008 - SongVest Announces Exclusive Partnership with Web 2.0. Music Community ReverbNation |
ReverbNation
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| 10/7/2008 - ReverbNation Secures $3 Million in Series B Expansion Funding |
ReverbNation
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| 10/7/2008 - Spotify Gets Label Deals, Debuts Ad-Supported Music Service |
Spotify
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| 10/6/2008 - Netflix Shares Drop on Lowered Subscriber, Revenue Forecasts |
Netflix
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| 10/2/2008 - EMI Loses Case Against Robertson; MP3tunes Suit Goes to Trial |
MP3tunes
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| 10/2/2008 - Indie Music Digital Distributor IODA Confirms Layoffs |
IODA
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| 10/1/2008 - Apple Threatens to Shutter iTunes Over Royalty Rate Hike |
iTunes
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| 9/30/2008 - Digital Video Network HealthiNation Raises $7.5 Million |
HealthiNation
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| 9/30/2008 - Zvents Lands $24 Million for Local Search, Ad Network |
Zvents
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| 9/29/2008 - Wal-Mart to Discontinue Update Support for DRM-Wrapped Songs |
Walmart Music
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| 9/29/2008 - Social Network Uber.com Shutters After Investors Bail |
Uber
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| 9/29/2008 - CEO of Digital Music Service eMusic Leaving for VC Firm |
eMusic
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| 9/29/2008 - Online Stock Photography Firm PicApp Lands $3.2 Million |
PicApp
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| 9/26/2008 - Muxtape Details Label Talks, RIAA Shutdown & Coming Re-launch |
MuxTape
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| 9/25/2008 - MySpace Music Launched Before Deals With Indies Set |
MySpace Music
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| 9/24/2008 - Digg Lands $28.7 Million for Social News Site |
Digg
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| 9/23/2008 - Swaptree.com Gets $3.35 Million for Media-Trading Service |
Swaptree
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| 9/19/2008 - Google Widens Lead Over Yahoo in Internet Searches |
Google Search
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| 9/18/2008 - Yahoo, Rhapsody Enable Song Streams in Search Results |
Rhapsody
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| 9/16/2008 - Amazon's IMDb.com Begins Streaming Free Movies, TV Shows |
IMDb
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| 9/15/2008 - Best Buy to Acquire Napster for $121 Million |
Napster
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| 9/15/2008 - MySpace Touts Advertiser Support for New Music Service |
MySpace
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| 9/15/2008 - LinkedIn Audience Network to Let Other Sites Target Users |
LinkedIn
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| 9/15/2008 - Netflix Contest Attempts to Break Moving-Watching World Record |
Netflix
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| 9/12/2008 - Yahoo Music to Open to Third-Party Services |
Yahoo! Music
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| 9/10/2008 - AOL to Open Portal to Outside Email, Content |
AOL Mail
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| 9/9/2008 - Google to Expand Online Newspaper Archive |
Google Search
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| 9/8/2008 - CBS Sues NFL Players' Union Over Fantasy Football Licensing |
CBS Sports Fantasy Football
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| 9/4/2008 - Social Gaming Network Raptr Debuts, Raises $12 Million |
Raptr
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| 9/2/2008 - Report: Facebook Making $34.5M in Virtual Item Sales |
Facebook
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| 9/2/2008 - Trusonic(R) Announces New, Innovative Internet-Based Media Player |
Trusonic
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| 8/28/2008 - Report: MySpace Overtakes Yahoo in Online Display Ad Views |
MySpace
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| 8/28/2008 - Court Sides With Video Site Veoh in Copyright Lawsuit |
Veoh
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| 8/25/2008 - Mattel Gets "Scrabulous" Pulled From Facebook Overseas |
Facebook
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| 8/21/2008 - Rumor: Apple Readying $130/Year iTunes Subscription Service |
iTunes
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| 8/19/2008 - National Lampoon Acquires Social Network AllModelZone |
All Model Zone
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| 8/18/2008 - AOL Acquires Social News Service Socialthing |
SocialThing
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| 8/18/2008 - ArtistDirect to Launch Lyrics Section; Licenses EMI, Universal |
Artist Direct
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| 8/16/2008 - Twitter Buys Summize For About $15M: Gets Search - And Maybe A Business Model |
Twitter
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| 8/15/2008 - Google Continues Its Web Dominance In July |
Google Search
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| 8/14/2008 - Facebook Gets Slapped With Another Lawsuit Over Beacon |
Facebook
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| 8/13/2008 - YouTube Cover Videos Boosting Artists' Royalties |
YouTube
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| 8/13/2008 - Best Buy First Independent Retailer to Sell Apple iPhone 3G |
BestBuy.com
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| 8/12/2008 - CEA and CNET Release New Consumer Sentiment Indexes |
CNET Networks
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| 8/11/2008 - Napster Posts Wider Q1 Loss, Loses 52,000 Subscribers |
Napster
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| 8/11/2008 - Fluid Music's Trusonic is the right fit for Johnston & Murphy's audio brand |
Trusonic
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| 8/8/2008 - blinkx Proposes Acquisition of Miva |
blinkx
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| 8/8/2008 - Google: $1 Billion AOL Investment "May Be Impaired" |
Google Image Search
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| 8/8/2008 - Facebook Security Issue |
Facebook
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| 8/7/2008 - Radio One's Interactive Unit Creates the Largest Online African-American Community |
BlackPlanet.com
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| 8/7/2008 - iVillage Enters Strategic Partnership with BlogHer |
BlogHer
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| 8/6/2008 - Online Indie Music Retailer CD Baby Acquired by Disc Makers |
CDBaby
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| 8/6/2008 - YouLicense.com Secures Funding From Ofer Media and Logia Group |
YouLicense
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| 8/6/2008 - SkyGrid Closes $11M Round of Series B Funding |
SkyGrid
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| 8/5/2008 - iTunes Continues To Lead U.S. Music Retailers in First Half of 2008 |
iTunes
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| 8/5/2008 - Friendster Announces New CEO and US$20 Million in Funding |
Friendster
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| 8/5/2008 - Youth Sports Web Community Weplay Lands $8.6 Million |
WePlay
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| 8/5/2008 - Google’s Music Search in China Goes Live; Working With Music Labels; Invests in Top100 |
Google Search
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| 8/5/2008 - ReverbNation Lets Musicians Add Press Clippings to Any Website |
ReverbNation
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| 8/2/2008 - Another Personalized News Site Bites The Dust |
Social.FM
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| 8/1/2008 - GumGum reports strong usage, completes funding round |
GumGum
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| 7/31/2008 - Google to Extend Reach With Venture-Capital Arm |
Google Search
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| 7/30/2008 - EarthLink Indicates It Is Open To a Deal With AOL |
EarthLink
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| 7/30/2008 - Yahoo Music to Refund Purchases on DRM-Locked Songs |
Yahoo! Music
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| 7/30/2008 - myYearbook, Leading Teen Destination Website, Raises $13 Million to Drive Growth |
MyYearbook
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| 7/28/2008 - Ex-Google engineers debut 'Cuil' way to search |
Cuil
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| 7/28/2008 - Video service Mogulus reels in Gannett funding |
Mogulus
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| 7/28/2008 - FCC Approves XM Satellite Radio Merger with Sirius |
Sirius Satellite Radio
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| 7/28/2008 - Online Music Label TrueAnthem Raises $2 Million |
True Anthem
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| 7/24/2008 - Microsoft Inks Web Search, Search Ad Deal With Facebook |
MSN Live Search
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| 7/24/2008 - MovieSet Gets $1.5 Million for Behind-the-Scenes Video |
MovieSet
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| 7/24/2008 - Fluid Music's Trusonic©extends growing relationship with Guitar Center |
Trusonic
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| 7/23/2008 - WorldWinner and Sony to Offer Online Competitions in Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy! |
SkillJam/WorldWinner
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| 7/23/2008 - Google Officially Launches Wikipedia Rival Knol |
Knol
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| 7/23/2008 - Revenue at New York Times Co. Drops 10%; Internet Revenue Up |
New York Times
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| 7/23/2008 - Meetup Gets Investment for Grassroots Organizing Service |
Meetup.com
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| 7/23/2008 - TicketLeap.com Lands $2 Million for Online Ticket Exchange |
TicketLeap.com
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| 7/23/2008 - MySpace’s DeWolfe Says New Music Joint Venture to Launch in September |
MySpace
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| 7/22/2008 - Netflix to Shutter Film Financing Unit Red Envelope |
Netflix
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| 7/22/2008 - Online Animation Community MyToons.com Secures Funding |
MyToons
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| 7/22/2008 - Fluid Music's Trusonic©Toasts New Relationship with Karl Strauss Brewing Company |
Trusonic
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| 7/21/2008 - Music Service iLike Tops 30M Users, Adds Full-Song Streams |
iLike
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| 7/21/2008 - Online Indie Film Distributor Raindance.TV Gets $1 Million |
Raindance.TV
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| 7/21/2008 - Social Application Developer LivingSocial.com Lands $5 Million |
LivingSocial
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| 7/18/2008 - Google Shares Plunge After Earnings Fall Shy of Expectations |
Google Search
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| 7/17/2008 - Amazon Plans an Online Store for Movies and TV Shows |
Amazon Unbox
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| 7/17/2008 - YouTube(TM) Arrives to the Boobtube Through the TiVo Service |
YouTube
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| 7/17/2008 - Documentary Site SnagFilms Launches, Acquires indieWIRE |
SnagFilms
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| 7/15/2008 - Muzu TV Raises $8 Million for Ad-Supported Music Video Site |
Muzu TV
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| 7/14/2008 - Virtual World for Teens Gaia Online Raises $11 Million |
Gaia Online
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| 7/14/2008 - Social Gaming Network (SGN) Announces Additional Investment From Bezos Expeditions |
SGN
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| 7/11/2008 - Guardian Acquires PaidContent Parent Co. for $30 Million |
PaidContent.org
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| 7/10/2008 - Instructional Video Network Graspr Nabs $2.5 Million |
Graspr
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| 7/10/2008 - Video-Enabled Web Marketplace Shopflick Lands $7 Million |
Shopflick
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| 7/9/2008 - Free Streamer Last.fm Offers Royalties to Unsigned Artists |
Last.fm
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| 7/9/2008 - Google Debuts "Lively" Free Virtual World Application |
Google Search
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| 7/9/2008 - CafePress Buys User-Generated Framed Art Service Imagekind |
ImageKind
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| 7/9/2008 - Broadband Entertainment Network Mevio Raises $15 Million |
Mevio
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| 7/9/2008 - Spire Lands $9 Million for Social Network Targeting Affluent |
Spire
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| 7/9/2008 - Fluid Music's Trusonic© to spice up the Boston Market brand experience |
Trusonic
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| 7/7/2008 - Social Search Developer Searchles Lands New Angel Round |
Searchles
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| 7/3/2008 - Judge Orders Google to Provide YouTube User Data to Viacom |
YouTube
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| 7/1/2008 - TopTenREVIEWS Lands $6 Million for Product Reviews Site |
Top10Reviews
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| 7/1/2008 - Fluid Music's Trusonic© enhances the Crate and Barrel brand experience |
Trusonic
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| 6/30/2008 - Social Network Hi5 Acquires PixVerse |
hi5
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| 6/30/2008 - RealNetworks Debuts MP3 Store, Teams with iLike, Verizon |
Rhapsody
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| 6/30/2008 - Social Networking Platform Lithium Technologies Gets $12M |
Lithium
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| 6/27/2008 - JumpTV Rejects LiveVideo Offer in Favor of NeuLion Merger |
LiveVideo
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| 6/27/2008 - Independent Animation Site aniBoom Gets $10 Million |
Aniboom
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| 6/27/2008 - Fashion Social Network Moxsie Raises $1 Million |
Moxsie
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| 6/27/2008 - Songkick Raises Funds for Concert Recommendations |
SongKick
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| 6/26/2008 - RateItAll Gets Funding for Consumer Ratings Web Widgets |
RateItAll
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| 6/25/2008 - Variably-Priced Song Store AmieStreet Gets The Orchard Catalog |
Amie Street
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| 6/25/2008 - BlogTalkRadio Gets $4.6M for User-Generated Live Web Radio |
BlogTalkRadio
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| 6/25/2008 - SodaHead Lands $8.4 Million for Online Opinion Community |
SodaHead
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| 6/24/2008 - Google to Offer a Tool To Measure Web Hits |
Google Search
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| 6/24/2008 - Yoono Lands $4 Million for Social Web Browser |
Yoono
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| 6/23/2008 - Fandango Acquires Disney's Movies.com |
Fandango
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| 6/19/2008 - YouTube Debuts "Screening Room" for Indie Filmmakers |
YouTube
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| 6/19/2008 - Apple: iTunes Store Tops 5 Billion Songs Sold |
iTunes
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| 6/19/2008 - Gannett Takes Stake in Family Networking Service Cozi |
Cozi
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| 6/18/2008 - Social Network LinkedIn Raises $53M; Valuation $1 Billion |
LinkedIn
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| 6/18/2008 - Wazoo Sports Gets $2 Million for High School Sports Webcasts |
Waazoo Sports
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| 6/18/2008 - Center'd Lands $6.5 Million, Debuts Event Planning Social Net |
Centerd
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| 6/17/2008 - Answers Corp. Secures up to $13 Million from Redpoint Ventures |
Answers.com
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| 6/13/2008 - WooMe Raises $12.5 Million for Online Video Dating Service |
WooMe
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| 6/13/2008 - Blog Search Engine Technorati Gets $7.5M of $10 Million Round |
Technorati
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| 6/12/2008 - eBay Shuts Down Web-based TV, Radio Ad Exchanges |
eBay
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| 6/12/2008 - Zoosk Raises $4.1 Million for Online Social Dating Network |
Zoosk
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| 6/11/2008 - Capzles Gets Funding for "Social Storytelling" Network |
Capzles
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| 6/11/2008 - Vdopia announces video advertising deal with Zoom TV portal |
Vdopia
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| 6/9/2008 - Amazon Invests in User-Generated TV Shopping Channel |
The Talk Market
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| 6/7/2008 - eMusic to Raise Cost of Basic Subscription Plan |
eMusic
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| 6/4/2008 - Latin American Social Net Sonico Gets $4.3 Million |
Sonico
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| 6/3/2008 - Video Site Veoh Lands $30 Million in New Funding |
Veoh
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| 6/2/2008 12:00:00 PM - Advertising’s matchmaker |
NextMedium
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| 6/2/2008 - Video-sharing Site EatLime Secures Funding |
EatLime
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| 6/2/2008 - Expert Advice Site Opposing Views Lands $1.25 Million |
OpposingViews
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| 5/29/2008 - eMUSIC WELCOMES SIMON & SCHUSTER AND NINE NEW PUBLISHERS |
eMusic
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| 5/29/2008 - Blockbuster to Test In-Store Movie Download Kiosks |
Blockbuster Online
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| 5/23/2008 - Microsoft Debuts "Cashback" Rebates for Live Search Users |
MSN Live Search
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| 5/22/2008 - Web TV Platform Brightcove Gets $4.9M for New Japanese Unit |
BrightCove
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| 5/22/2008 - Flock Raises Funds |
Flock
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| 5/22/2008 - Report: Microblogging Service Twitter Lands $15 Million |
Twitter
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| 5/20/2008 - Roku Device Streams Netflix Movies to TV |
Netflix
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| 5/20/2008 - IAC Acquires Girls' Fashion Community GirlSense.com |
GirlSense
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| 5/20/2008 - Neighborhood News Social Net Outside.in Raises $3 Million |
Outside In
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| 5/20/2008 - Napster Launches World's Largest MP3 Store Featuring 6 Million Tracks |
Napster
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| 5/19/2008 - Steinway Acquires Web CD Retailer ArkivMusic for $4.5 Million |
ArkivMusic
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| 5/15/2008 - IAC's Ask.com Acquires Dictionary.com Parent Lexico Publishing |
Ask Jeeves
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| 5/14/2008 - Comcast Acquires Social Network Plaxo for $175 Million |
Plaxo
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| 5/14/2008 - Qtrax Signs Warner/Chappell to Free, Legal File-Sharing Service |
Qtrax
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| 5/13/2008 - Study: Imeem Unseats Yahoo as Top U.S. Music-Streaming Site (Updated) |
imeem
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| 5/13/2008 - Experience Project Raises $3 Million in Funding |
Experience Project
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| 5/12/2008 - Electronic Arts to Buy Shawn Fanning's Rupture for $30M |
Rupture
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| 5/7/2008 - Qtrax Licenses Universal Music Group for Legal P2P Service |
Qtrax
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| 5/6/2008 - IODA to Debut White Label Storefronts for Indie Labels, Artists |
IODA
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| 5/6/2008 - Buzznet Acquires Alternative Music Community Absolute Punk |
Buzznet
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| 5/2/2008 - MySpace lets app developers buy ads to reach users |
MySpace
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| 4/24/2008 - MySpace Application Gallery Goes Live to Users |
MySpace
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| 4/21/2008 - Six Apart Acquires Blog Consulting Firm Apperceptive |
TypePad
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| 4/18/2008 - White Label Social Network Service Ning Raises $60 Million |
Ning
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| 3/25/2008 - Yahoo and MySpace join with Google |
MySpace
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| 3/12/2008 - Ad-Supported Music Takes Hold at We7 |
We7
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| 2/15/2008 - Vid-sharing Site Revver Acquired by LiveUniverse |
Revver
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| 1/29/2008 - Friendster Moves to Asia |
Friendster
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| 12/30/2007 - Making a big to-do out of other people's resolutions |
43 Things
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| 12/1/2007 - Obscene Losses for the Adult Industry |
YouPorn
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| 11/1/2007 - Fluid Media Networks Acquires In-Store Music Provider Trusonic |
Trusonic
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| 9/26/2007 - The Medialoper Review of Spiral Frog |
Spiral Frog
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