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Wikia Says It’s the Biggest Site Nobody — Including Its Millions of Readers — Has Ever Heard Of (Video)

Liz Gannes in Social on February 6 at 1:00 pm PT

The user-generated media site Wikia has been profitable for three years and grew traffic 42 percent last year to 47.6 million global unique visitors.

YouTube and Hollywood Finally Link Up: Here Come the Channels

Peter Kafka in Media on October 28, 2011 at 6:00 pm PT

Google announces deals with “Modern Family” star Sofia Vergara and a bunch of other famous people to make stuff for the site. Next up: Signing on advertisers.

News Corp.'s IGN Buys Hearst's UGO In Preparation For Game Site Spin-Off

Peter Kafka in News on May 1, 2011 at 5:27 pm PT

It’s the end of News Corp.’s Web 2.0 play that started back in 2005: The media conglomerate plans to spin out its IGN.com dudes-and-games site, and is bulking up in advance by acquiring Hearst’s dudes-and-games-centric UGO.com.

100 Percent Fresh Exclusive!: Flixster/Rotten Tomatoes in Acquisition Talks With Yahoo and Others

Kara Swisher in News on March 16, 2011 at 12:02 am PT

Flixster–the popular social movie site whose brands include the Rotten Tomatoes premium reviews site, as well as BuddyTV–is in early acquisition talks with several suitors, including Yahoo, said sources close to the situation. The price being discussed for the San Francisco-based start-up is between $60 million and $90 million, said several sources, in talks that are “substantive.”

Twitter Partner Gnip Raises $2M for Social Media Monitoring Data

Liz Gannes in Social on November 18, 2010 at 9:32 am PT

Gnip, which helps social media monitoring companies collect data, and yesterday became the first company authorized to resell Twitter data, has raised $2 million in funding.

News Corp. Adds Making Fun to Social Games Group

Peter Kafka in Media on November 5, 2010 at 6:27 am PT

Most of the big media companies have big stakes in digital games, except News Corp. But Rupert Murdoch’s company is trying to catch up–without spending a lot of money.

News Corp. Puts Myspace on Double Secret Probation

Peter Kafka in Media on November 3, 2010 at 2:53 pm PT

That big Myspace relaunch we read about last week? That’s all fine and good. But the troubled Web property is a…really troubled Web property, its News Corp. parent stressed today. And it needs to get its act together before it gets kicked off campus.

Break Media Makes Another Gaming Move, Acquires FileFront Networks

Peter Kafka in Media on February 11, 2010 at 8:00 am PT

Last month, dudecentric network Break Media announced plans to start developing its own lightweight Web games. FileFront comes at gaming from a different perspective–it works hand-in-hand with the big-budget videogames for the likes of the Xbox 360 and the PS3.

First M&A of 2010: Flixster + Rotten Tomatoes

Peter Kafka in Media on January 4, 2010 at 10:08 am PT

Here’s the Flixster/MySpace deal Kara Swisher sussed out on Christmas Eve: News Corp. is handing over its Rotten Tomatoes movie review site, previously owned by its IGN unit, to the movie-centric social network and will get an equity stake in the combined company.