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Microsoft Acquires Greenfield Online for $486 Million

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2008-08-29 13:00:17 by Stan Schroeder in Mashable!
...million dollars. As others have noticed , Greenfield already had a deal in place with media PE firm Quadrangle Group LLC., who was supposed to buy Ciao for $426 million, but it seems that Microsoft had outbid them John Mangelaars, vice president, Consumer and Online, Microsoft Europe, Middle East and Africa has said the following about the...
 
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An iPhone Games Publisher Ngmoco raises $5.6 Million in Series A Funding

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2008-08-29 15:17:03 by Asma Kaleem in Startup Meme
...million in Series A funding. The funding round was supported by a premier venture capital firm, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB), along with Maples Investments contribution Ngmoco is a newly incubated company that is mainly designed to develop some of the best iPhone games and focus on enhancing the entertainment experience Neil...
 
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Index Puts $35 Million Into Cnet of Europe (BestofMedia) and $25 Million Into IP Surveillance (Milestone)

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2008-07-10 03:58:18 by Erick Schonfeld in TechCrunch
...million-Euro fund launched last January by Index Ventures. The IPO market being closed is helping us, confirms Index partner Dom Vidal Today, Index is announcing two big investments in that fund: $35 million (22.5 million Euros) into BestofMedia Group and $27 million (17 million Euros) into Milestone Systems Both companies are about ten years...
 
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60 Million Apps Downloaded from the App Store

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2008-08-11 15:18:53 by Ashley in CyberNet
...million applications have been downloaded. Of course many of those are free, but many have a price tag attached which means developers are making money. Apple is making money too with the 30% that they take, but Steve Jobs pointed out that much of that goes simply towards operating costs If we break down the number of apps that have been...
 
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600 Million Add-ons Downloaded from Mozilla

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2008-02-01 19:27:46 by Ryan in CyberNet
...million mark . That number only includes downloads from the add-ons site a, and on top of that there are about 100 million update pings each day. The breakdown for the update requests are pictured to the right in the pie chart, and there are already more than 1 million update requests from users running pre-release versions of Firefox 3 On a...
 
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Firefox Rolls Over the 500 Million Download Mark

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2008-02-22 15:55:58 by Ashley in CyberNet
...million mark giving Mozilla yet another reason to celebrate over their open-source web browser. At the time, Ryan looked at their current trend in growth and estimated that around April 15th, 2008 Firefox would hit their 1/2 billion milestone. Well, its only February 22, 2008 and theyve just hit their 500 million mark. Congratulations...
 
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Kongregate Gets $3 Million From Bezos: Growing Fast and About To Unleash Its Games on Facebook

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2008-04-30 19:40:54 by Erick Schonfeld in TechCrunch
...million into user-generated casual gaming site Kongregate through Bezos Expeditions, his personal investment vehicle. Kongregate CEO calls it a super angel round, although technically it is a B1 round (the startup raised $5 million in a round led by Greylock). Bezos Expeditions wont be taking a board seat. Greer says If we had done another...
 
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Virtual Worlds Are So Hot Right Now: $345 Million Invested So Far This Year

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2008-07-09 04:44:54 by Erick Schonfeld in TechCrunch
...million put into 14 virtual-world investments during the second quarter of 2008. In the first quarter there was even more activity, with $184 million put into 23 virtual worlds and supporting technology companies. That brings the total this year alone to $345 million across 37 deals. Some notable deals (you can see the full lists by clicking...
 
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Fox News Boss Roger Ailes' Very Good Year Nets Him $20 Million

2008-08-19 17:49:00 by Peter Kafka in Silicon Alley Insider
 
...million in the last 12 months -- nearly double the amount he earned the year before What did he do to earn that? Primarily, he ran Fox News, which is still crushing the competition. In July, FNC was drawing an average of 1.45 million viewers per day, while CNN could only muster 809,000. That performance alone netted Ailes a $4.5 million...
 
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