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OpenTable Files for $40 Million Public Offering

OpenTable, the online restaurant reservation service, has filed an S1 with the SEC to raise $40 million. The company, founded in 1998 by former Citysearch President Thomas Layton, was launched as Easyseats.com. It currently has contracts with 10,000 restaurants in all 50…

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Zillow Rides the Bad Tides of Real Estate

(The View From the 46th Floor) The bad market for real estate has put a crimp in a lot of real estate marketing (except perhaps for foreclosure sites like Zetabids). The New York Times, on Sunday, found that many real…

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IAC’s ServiceMagic Buys Market Hardware

IAC’s ServiceMagic,  a leader in delivering leads to services, has purchased Bethesda,MD- based Market Hardware, which provides websites and search engine optimization for 2,500 SMBs. Market Hardware, which has 30 people, targets “high online spend verticals” that closely mirror ServiceMagic’s…

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Mixpo Signs More Channel Partners

Video creation platform provider Mixpo today announced partnerships with five local media organizations: NBC Local Media, Tribune, Freedom Communications, TownNews.com and Fisher Communications. The deal will equip each new partner with Mixpo's VideoAd platform, which will let advertisers create and…

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Watch: TKG Interviews at SES

The Search Engine Strategies conference series has set up a YouTube channel filled with short interviews that are done before and after sessions. They're typically good snack-sized videos that can give you a general sense of some of the biggest…

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AdReady: Growth for Builder of Insta-Display Ads for SMBs

AdReady, the Seattle-based media placement firm and builder of display ad templates for SMBs, has long been on our list of “most interesting” local services. And that was before it signed white-label deals with The New York Times, Boston Globe…

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FixR Debuts: New Auction-Based Site for Services

FixR, a seven-person Boston-area site that bills itself as an “eBay for local services,” has launched. Developed with private funds, the site provides free listings for services and free bids for consumers, but expects to charge a “success” fee when…

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The Internet: 1 Billion Served

ComScore released new data today showing that the global Internet population has reached 1 billion. Asia Pacific accounts for the highest regional share of users (41.3 percent), followed by Europe (28 percent), North America (18.4 percent), Latin America (7.4 percent),…

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Your Blog in Print

The New York Times covers a new daily news provider called The Printed Blog that's building a new model based on what it hopes to be the best of online and offline distribution. As its name implies, this will involve…

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