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Apr 29
2010

Living Social Adds $14 Million, Teams with Washington Post

On the heels of Groupon’s $135 Million round (and $1 billion valuation), Living Social has stepped up to the plate with a new $14 million C round, led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, with U.S. Venture Partners, Grotech Ventures and Steve Case’s Revolution, LLC participating. The new money gives Living Social a total of $39 million …continue reading »

Categories: Deals, Money, Newspapers, Shopping/Transactions

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Oct 29
2009

Allbrittron Combines Two DC-Area TV Station Sites into Local Portal

Allbritton Communications will merge its two Washington D.C. area TV station sites—WJLA.com and News8.net –and build a new, 50 person local DC site behind former Washingtonpost.com editor Jim Brady, who developed the concept. The site will be run adjacent to Politico, Allbritton’s successful, all politics vertical. In an interview with PaidContent.org, Brady said he hopes …continue reading »

Categories: HyperLocal, TV/Radio

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Sep 21
2009

HOAs as Hyperlocal Publishers?

Home Owners Associations would seem like natural publishers of hyperlocal news and information – especially where “many residents’ sense of community rarely extends beyond their own subdivisions, neighborhood schools and the crime and traffic problems closest to their homes,” as The Washington Post noted last week in an article on the failure of country-wide hyperlocal …continue reading »

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Aug 20
2009

Hyperlocal Roundup: WaPo Pulls Out, AOL’s Patch Adds 2 Towns

Hyperlocal, everyone’s favorite unproven concept, has been back in the news this week. It started a couple of weeks ago. BackFence Founder Mark Potts’ announced that he has formed a high profile team and built ad technology to drive network and local revenues for up to “2000 hyperlocal sites” – an interesting and large number. …continue reading »

Categories: HyperLocal, Newspapers

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May 28
2009

D7:The WaPo’s and HuffPo’s Different Takes on Local News

Two very different takes on local news were in evidence at the WSJ’s D7 conference in Carlsbad,CA today, as Arianna Huffington of The Huffington Post and Katharine Weymouth of The Washington Post were interviewed by former Post reporter Kara Swisher about their respective directions. Since the November election, Huffington noted that the Huffington Post has …continue reading »

Categories: Conferences, Newspapers, Sales Channels, Verticals, Yellow Pages

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Feb 13
2009

CV’s HomeGain Signs with The Washington Post (too)

Yesterday, Trulia announced it was replacing Classified Ventures’ Homefinder.com as the real estate search provider on WashingtonPost.com. Today, the paper seems to have reaffirmed its ties to CV via a new deal with CV’s HomeGain. The deal with HomeGain provides paid leads to real estate agents, and on paper, complements the deal with Trulia, which …continue reading »

Categories: Classifieds, Misc, Newspapers, Verticals, Yellow Pages

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Jun 5
2008

Ballmer on Future of Print

In a new Washington Post.com video, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer talks on a wide variety of topics, including the future of print. “In the next ten years, the world of media companies will be turned upside down,” he says. “There will be no newspapers or magazines delivered in paper form. Everything will be delivered in …continue reading »

Categories: Newspapers

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