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The dinner that destroyed Gawker

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Peter Thiel’s vague idea to do something about Gawker, the site that had outed him as gay in 2007, was concretized into conspiracy on April 6, 2011. This is an excerpt from Ryan Holiday’s new book Conspiracy: Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker, and the Anatomy of Intrigue, available now.

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Centerfield Buys Business.com and Savings.com

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Business.com, as well as its companion sites, Business News Daily and BuyerZone help connect professionals with business servies. Savings.com is an online coupon site. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced. Centerfield is led by co-CEOs Brett Cravatt and Jason Cohen. for the domain name.

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Business.com Acquired By Purch

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Carlsbad-based Business.com , the online business directory and information site which was most recently in the hands of JMI Equity, has been sold to New York-based content publisher Purch , the two said Wednesday afternoon. Purch is the publisher of such sites as Top Ten Reviews, Tom's Guide, Tom's Hardware, Live Science, and many others.

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California Leads In IPO Filings In Q2, Says Report

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According to a report from Ernst & Young, the second quarter of 2011 saw 140 potential IPOs, representing $23.7 billion in deals, the highest since the financial crisis started in late 2007. The report also found that technology deals had the most number of registrations in Q2, led by daily deals site Groupon.

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Interview with Clark Benson, Ranker

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It actually closed on New Year's Day, 2007. How long has the site been up and running? Our growth has been steady from month-to-month, and has just started to ramp up heavily in 2011. What have you learned so far in getting the site up and running? How Ranker came about, is I love to make lists.

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Interview with Steve Jillings, TeleSign

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Steve Jillings has a long track record of running successful startups in Southern California, ranging from such companies as FrontBridge Technologies (sold to Microsoft in 2005 for over $200M) and Vantage Media (acquired in 2007). 2011 was an incredibly huge year for us, and 2012 will be the same way.

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Good Times Ahead for VC-backed Tech Companies?

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If you want to download the document I’ve made it available at my favorite document sharing site DocStoc). The total number of M&A deals in the US this year is projected to be a paltry 225 transactions relative to more than 450 deals just 2 years ago, which was the norm between 2002-2007, varying only by around 3% per year.