Linking The Deal's current blogs, Tech Confidential Blog, Dealscape and Corporate Dealmaker Forum along with The Deal's newest blogs, VC Ratings and TechEffect, The Deal Blogs Network will make it easier for readers to find the latest news and opinions from The Deal's team of editors and writers.

The RSS-enabled Deal Blogs Network enhances The Deal LLC's coverage, commentary and news analysis of venture capital, technology and corporate dealmaking. VC Ratings rates venture capital deals, investors, exits and more, while TechEffect will cover technology from the boardroom to the consumer.

Rounding out the coverage of transactions shaping up around the globe, the recently launched Corporate Dealmaker Forum is the first of its kind to bring together corporate development professionals and features commentary from Corporate Dealmaker's Editor Kenneth Klee and respected professionals in that community.

Because of the increasing traffic generated by The Deal's first two blogs, Tech Confidential Blog and Dealsacpe, The Deal's editors decided to create a venue to unify the blogs and expand coverage. The launch of the network was overseen by Tom Groppe, executive editor of electronic media and Brian Ward, blog editor. Chris Kwieraga, associate art director, provided art direction.

"As the blogosphere continues to grow, The Deal Blogs Network will be the first blog source and respected go-to place for daily news and opinion on all facets of the deal economy," said Groppe. "The network will fill our editors' and reporters' desire to connect and speak to our audience. It will also allow our readers to hear our editorial staff in a different, more personal voice."

About The Deal LLC

The Deal LLC is a diversified media company that is the authoritative voice of the deal economy. We serve the global deal community - corporate and financial dealmakers, advisers and institutional investors - by providing business and financial news and information that offers fresh insights on the deal economy, a set of interrelated activities, focused on dealmaking of all kinds, whose purpose is to generate corporate growth in a continually changing global market. We offer a comprehensive line of print and electronic product and services for both readers and advertisers, including The Deal, The Daily Deal, TheDeal.com, Corporate Dealmaker, Tech Confidential, Corporate Control Alert, Auction Block, Bankruptcy Insider, Deal Focus and VCDeal.com. Investors in The Deal, a privately held company, include majority owner U.S. Equity Partners, a private investment fund sponsored by Wasserstein & Co. LP, and Rustic Canyon Ventures, one of the largest venture capital funds in Southern California.