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		<title><![CDATA[Twitter Stock Community Stocktwits Gets Funding]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Stocktwits, which expands into twits writing about stock (a joke, guys?relax) on Twitter, has received an undisclosed amount from a panoply of NYC tech investor types. The first round was led by Roger Ehrenberg's IA Capital Partners (whose own company Monitor110 famously imploded earlier this year), and included a...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2008 12:59:04 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Disney Forms JV To Launch Russian TV Channel]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Even though the global financial meltdown has been affecting Russia as well, media companies still see enough growth potential to make entering that market worthwhile. The Walt Disney (NYSE: DIS) Company has entered into a joint venture with Russian cable company Media-One to create a free-to-air Disney channel. The...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2008 19:37:36 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Game Graphics Company Image Metrics Gets $6.5 Million]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ U.K.-based game graphics company Image Metrics has picked up $6.5 million in funding from Saffron Hill Ventures, VentureBeat reports. Image Metrics focuses on making the faces within video games look and move realistically, which has become increasingly important given the advanced graphics capabilities of consoles like the Xbox 360...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2008 16:43:38 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Video Ad Provider Overlay.TV Raises C$4.6 Million Second Round]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Video ad provider Overlay.TV has raised another C$4.6 million (US$3.7 million) in a second round funding. The backing comes from returning investors Celtic House Venture Partners, Tech Capital Partners and EdgeStone Capital Partners, who provided the Ottawa, Canada with its C$4.6 million first round back in January.Overlay.TV exited beta...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2008 14:37:03 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Gale Acquires HighBeam For Online Research]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Educational publisher Gale has bought HighBeam Research to further its development in user experience. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. HighBeam has long been a content provider for the Cengage Learning subsidiary, so Gale calls the acquisition a "natural extension of [its] user-focused strategy." HighBeam, which is best...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2008 06:03:36 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Data Provider BlueKai Closes $10.5M Second Round]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Marketing data provider BlueKai has raised a $10.5 million second round led by Battery Ventures. Returning backer Redpoint Ventures also participated. The proceeds will be used to expand client support services and for new products tied to data services BlueKai Exchange and the BlueKai Registry. The Bellevue, WA-based company...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2008 05:01:58 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Gaming Community DotBlu Gets $2 Million First Round]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ DotBlu, a social network/community for online gaming, has picked up $2 million in a first round, peHUB says, citing a regulatory filing. Maples Investments and DE Shaw participated in the round. DotBlu members can play casual games, take quizzes and vote in polls using BluBucks, the site's virtual currency....]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 21:13:36 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Time Warner Ups Stake In Eidos, Will It Buy The Rest?]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) has increased its stake in Eidos' Lara Croft game maker SCi Entertainment, which last week renamed to Eidos Plc, as bidders continue to hover over the ailing studio. Time Warner increased its holding from 42.5 million to 52.5 million shares, or 19.92 percent of the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 14:55:38 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Time Warner Ups Stake In Gamer Eidos To 20 Percent]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) has upped its stake in Eidos, the games developer behind Tomb Raider and Hitman, to 19.92 percent, Reuters reports. The entertainment conglomerate bought 10 million shares in Eidos last week. It now holds 52.5 million shares in the UK-based gamer. The Time Warner stake comes...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 14:15:21 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[How the Helio Buyout Process Went: Virgin Mobile Wanted To Bring In a Retail and Financial Investor]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ *Virgin Mobile USA* bought Helio earlier this year, for a paltry $39 million in equity and getting $50 million in investment from British parent Virgin Group and *SK Telecom*. That we reported on in detail at that time. Now finally, VMUSA has filed details of how the sale process...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Anvato Gets $2 Million In Funding For Video Search, Identification]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Online video search and identification service Anvato has picked up $2 million worth of a $4 million first round. Oxantium Ventures led the investment, which the Mountain View-based startup will use to launch AdMatch, its video advertising platform. The platform builds on Anvato's fingerprinting technology, which lets publishers track...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[National Lampoon Buys T-Shirt Seller JerkAssClothing]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ The recession isn't slowing down National Lampoon's acquisition binge: the humor site is getting into e-commerce with the purchase of JerkassClothing.com. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. The apparel maker aims its t-shirts and merchandise at college students. The company's ethos is explained on its site: " We...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2008 19:37:20 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Chinese Football Site World Sports Network Gets Funding]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ World Sports Network, a network of football sites out of China, has received an undisclosed amount of funding from Valhalla Investments. The company, based in Shangai, has two sites: English language one at wsn.com and Chinese at cn.wsn.com. These sites are focused towards the Asian markets, though the coverage...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2008 18:42:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Tumblr Raises $4.5 Million Second Round; Staffs Up, Preps Premium Model]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ If blogs are over, tumblelogs never even got going. But that isn't stopping Tumblr, short-form scrapbook blogging's biggest exponent, from raising a $4.5 million second VC round. Beefing up, the outfit is adding former Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) technology SVP John Borthwick to its board and former CNET director...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2008 11:38:38 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Turner Hives Off Its Online Sports Servcie Provider PlayOn; New Company Gets Funding]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Turner, part of Time Warner (NYSE: TWX), which has surprisingly been scaling back some of its original online efforts, has now sold off its online sports site services provider PlayOn Sports to a new Atlanta-based company called 2080 Media. The company is focused on production and distribution of broadband...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 20:57:45 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[BREAKING: RBI Sale Canceled; Reed Elsevier Still Wants Rid In Medium-Term]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ The verdict is in and the answer is: no sale. Reed Elsevier (NYSE: RUK) has announced that its torturous, nine-month campaign to sell the B2B magazine division is over. Reed announced to the stock market this afternoon that it has "terminated discussions with potential bidders" and that due to...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 15:11:38 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Yahoo Shareholder Pleas With Board To Make $15 Billion Search Deal With Microsoft]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) investor Ivory Investment Management went public today with a plea to the board to sell the search business to Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) for what it estimates could be $15 billion. MarketWatch reports that Ivory, which owns a 1.5 percent stake in Yahoo, issued an open letter...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 13:47:44 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[@ UBS Media Week: CEO: Family Says NYTCo Not For Sale; Fundraising Won't Include About.com]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ At some point, the people who insist About.com is for sale may be right&#8212;a stopped clock is right twice a day, too. But while others see it as an asset that could raise money, New York Times (NYSE: NYT) CEO Janet Robinson says About.com is too valuable to the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2008 23:27:18 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Rustic Canyon Sells Part of Its Portfolio To Give Liquidity To Chandler Family, Its LP]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ A crazy but true story, along with a strange co-incidence: Rustic Canyon RC, one of the largest VC firms in Southern California and invested in a bunch of digital media companies, has sold off a part of its portfolio to Saints Capital, a San Francisco-based VC firm which specializes...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2008 22:52:02 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[High End Employment Site RiseSmart Gets $3 Million First Round]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ RiseSmart, an online job search service aimed at people earning +$100K, has closed a $3 million first round led by Norwest Venture Partners. The Sunnyvale, CA-based company has raised a total of $4.5 million since its inception in 2007. Competitors include TheLadders.com and to a lesser extent, individual headhunters,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2008 21:40:42 -0800</pubDate>
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