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Goodbye dMarc: Google Sells Radio Automation Assets

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Google's foray into the radio automation market has finally ended this morning, as San Francisco-based WideOrbit said it has acquired Google Radio Automation and related products. No financial details of the asset sale were disclosed. At that time, Google paid $102M in cash--with up to an astounding $1.1

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Brand Affinity Technologies Gets $20M

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Ryan and Chad Steelberg are best known for their sale of dMarc to Google in 2006. BAT operates a celebrity endorsement and marketing firm. BAT said the new funding comes as it expects to double its year-over-year revenues to $30M in 2010. The two also founded AdForce (sold to CMGi) and 2CAN Media (sold to CMGi).

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Interview with Sean Broihier, Fine Art America

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Fine Art America handles all of the details of fulfilling sales for images. our marketplace, you go to Fine Art America, join, and you get an online profile, much like a Facebook or Google Plus. You hit submit, and your images are instantly available for sale as prints on our website. from photographers and artists.

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Interview with John Mudge, iBN Sports

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We started with a small, high school, Rancho Santa Margarita Catholic High School, and broadcast their football games, the whole season, in 2006. This last season, we did over 600 high school football games all over the country, and signed a partnership with Google/YouTube and others. It's a combination of revenue models.

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

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Their first fund was a $75 million fund raised in 2006 and they very recently announced a brand new $130 million fund. The “private sale” market phenomenon was started in France by Vente-Privee (literally means “private sale”) and was replicated in Germany by BrandsforFriends. Greycroft is an early-stage VC. Time will tell.

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This Week in VC: Michael Montgomery (President, Montgomery & Co.)

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Founded in 2002 and expanded after founders graduated from CMU in 2006. Woot was one of the first one-per-day item sales site with a humorous and not always PC content. Acquired by Google for $700mm in cash. Google wants to use the data to create new flight search tools. Total raised: $1.3mm. TechCrunch. TechCrunch.

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When Should You Allow Exclusivity in Deals?

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Before weighing in on the subject I would point out one thing that should be obvious to many of you – the iPhone was originally launched in 2007 in an exclusive partnership with AT&T and this was vital to both Apple and AT&T and was a hard negotiation throughout 2005 and 2006. Excite, MSN and eventually Google.