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Report: PE Firm Elevation to Take Large Stake in Pandora

San Francisco - Private equity firm Elevation Partners is preparing to acquire a large stake in streaming music service Pandora, sources close to the situation told...

Foodspotting Gets $750K for User-Submitted Food Photos

San Francisco - Foodspotting, a site that lets users share photos of their meals, has raised $750,000 in seed funding, TechCrunch reported. Felicis Ventures led the investment;...

Research in Motion Acquires Mobile Storefront Provider Cellmania

Waterloo, Ontario - BlackBerry maker Research in Motion (RIM) (NASD: RIMM) has acquired Cellmania, a provider of mobile storefront technology, TechCrunch reported. Financial terms of the transaction...

Bankrupt Playlist.com Owes Labels $25M; Plans Equity Financing

Los Angeles - Playlist.com, the music service that filed for bankruptcy earlier this month, owes the major record labels a combined $25 million, but hopes to...

Monster Acquires HotJobs, Signs Traffic Deal With Yahoo

Maynard, Mass.   Monster, the provider of online job search and employee recruitment services, has completed its $225 million acquisition of HotJobs from Yahoo (NASD: YHOO). As part of...

Brand Affinity Technologies Lands $20 Million

Irvine, Calif. - Brand Affinity Technologies (BAT), a provider of celebrity brand marketing services, announced on Tuesday that it has raised $20 million in a third...

Google Acquires Comparison Shopping Site Like.com

Mountain View, Calif. - Google (NASD:  GOOG) has acquired comparison shopping site Like.com, in a deal sources told TechCrunch values the company at around $100 million....

Federated Media Acquires Technology From TextDigger

San Francisco - Federated Media Publishing, a blog and advertising network, announced on Monday that it has acquired a platform for semantic and linguistic profiling of...

Euro RSCD Buys Web Marketing, Design Firm Congruent Media

Chicago - Euro RSCD 4D Discovery, a provider of data analytics, CRM and behavioral marketing services, announced on Monday that it has acquired Web marketing and...

Mobile App Store PocketGear Raises $15 Million

Durham, N.C. - PocketGear, a mobile applications and content marketplace, announced on Monday that it has raised $15 million in its second round of venture capital...