Federated Media Buys Lijit Networks

A medium-sized online advertising company buys a smaller one.
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Twitter in Talks to Buy TweetDeck

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

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.

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.

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Dell: Merrill Ups to Buy

Bank of America/Merrill Lynch analyst Scott Craig this morning lifted his rating on Dell to Buy from Neutral, setting an $18 price target on the stock, which yesterday closed at $13.55.

New Way to Flit from Store to Store

As the home base for a Web search, Flit.com makes online shopping feel more like a day at the mall.
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Philip "Pud" Kaplan Talks About Blippy–the Twitter of $$

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.
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The ABCs of Wii, Xbox and PlayStation 3

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

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.
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Wall Street Punishes Netflix for Making Wall Street Happy

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.
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Just Another Cyber Monday …