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Federated Media Buys Lijit Networks

Kara Swisher in Media on October 4, 2011 at 5:00 am PT

A medium-sized online advertising company buys a smaller one.

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Twitter in Talks to Buy TweetDeck

Amir Efrati, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on April 18, 2011 at 1:47 pm PT

Twitter Inc. is in advanced talks to buy TweetDeck Inc. for around $50 million, people familiar with the matter said.

Bill Gross's UberMedia Raises $17.5 Million From Accel, Index and Steve Case

Kara Swisher in News on February 14, 2011 at 9:04 am PT

UberMedia, which just bought TweetDeck for $30 million in equity last week, has raised $17.5 million in a round led by Accel Partners. The valuation for the Pasadena, Calif., start-up founded by well-known entrepreneur Bill Gross–which was actually struck some month ago–is $40 million.

AOL + Huffington Post Won't Go to 11. But It Does Make Sense.

Peter Kafka in Media on February 7, 2011 at 3:30 am PT

Former AOL CEO Steve Case is right to call out current AOL CEO Tim Armstrong’s fuzzy math. But that doesn’t mean this is a bad deal.

New Way to Flit from Store to Store

Katherine Boehret in The Mossberg Solution on February 2, 2010 at 6:16 pm PT

As the home base for a Web search, Flit.com makes online shopping feel more like a day at the mall.

Philip "Pud" Kaplan Talks About Blippy–the Twitter of $$

Kara Swisher in News on December 23, 2009 at 8:59 am PT

To start, let’s just dispense with huffing and puffing angst over whether or not people should broadcast their credit card transactions online. Because that’s what you can do on a new site, with the unlikely name of Blippy, headed by longtime Silicon Valley entrepreneur Philip “Pud” Kaplan. In other words, a kind of Twitter for spending–the next step in the inevitable trend toward radical transparency online.

The ABCs of Wii, Xbox and PlayStation 3

Katherine Boehret in The Mossberg Solution on December 8, 2009 at 4:47 pm PT

Here’s what shoppers need to know about the three most popular gaming systems, the Nintendo Wii, the Microsoft XBox 360 and the Sony Playstation 3.

Sprint Undervalued by as Much as 50 Percent? Keep Dreaming…

John Paczkowski in News on December 8, 2009 at 9:05 am PT

If Sprint, as Barron’s recently claimed, deserves more respect on Wall Street, it’s not going to find it at Pali Research, which clearly does not see the same 50 percent upside potential in the company’s shares. In a note to investors this morning, Pali analyst Walter Piecyk says he’s not buying predictions about Sprint returning to growth in 2010.

Wall Street Punishes Netflix for Making Wall Street Happy

Peter Kafka in Media on December 4, 2009 at 10:11 am PT

Shares in Netflix, which have have more than doubled in the last year, are a bit down today. What gives? Best to be wary of anyone who tells you why a stock moves on a given day, but a good bet here would be: Shares in Netflix have more than doubled in the last year.