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NBC Grabs a High-Profile Blogger to Boost Its Local Site: Eater Co-Founder Ben Leventhal

Peter Kafka in Media on October 27, 2009 at 3:00 pm PT

News for the foodie/NY blog scene: Ben Leventhal, co-founder of the influential Eater blog, is headed to GE’s NBC Universal, where he’ll oversee “lifestyle content” for NBC’s growing local Web unit.

Jeff Bezos, Spark Capital, Bet on Aviary, a Web-Based Would-Be Adobe

Peter Kafka in Media on October 25, 2009 at 9:00 pm PT

Last week, Jeff Bezos made $2 billion in one day, courtesy of a massive spike in Amazon shares. That gives him more money to plow into the likes of Aviary, a Long Island-based company that makes design software. The Amazon CEO has made a second investment in the company as part of a $7 million round led by Spark Capital.

Twitter Investor: Business Plan Coming…By 2011

Peter Kafka in Media on June 4, 2009 at 4:17 am PT

Give the Twitter guys credit for honesty: Asked to explain how their big-hype, zero-revenue company will make money, as we did at last week’s All Things Digital conference. and they’ll cheerfully admit that they’re not sure. At least one of their investors seems to be equally unfazed, though Spark Capital’s Bijan Sabet predicts that the company’s plans will become clearer in the next 18 months.