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Ex-Yahoo! biz development officer joins startup (from Corporate Dealmaker)

Jonathan Wolf, who most recently headed up corporate development for Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO ) in Europe, has joined London-based startup Criteo as chief business development officer. According to a release, he will oversee Criteo's global strategic alliances. Criteo, founded in 2005, helps e-commerce sites and others track their customers across...

Posted on July 15, 2009 4:23 PM

AOL builds on its social-media acquisitions (from Corporate Dealmaker)

Time Warner's AOL unit is playing catch-up in social media, using acquisitions to chase Facebook Inc. and News Corp.'s MySpace. According to reports on Cnet and Boomtown, it's making progress. In March of 2008 it bought social networking site Bebo, paying (some said overpaying) $850 million. Based in San Francisco,...

Posted on February 23, 2009 12:50 PM

AOL cuts jobs, will it cut Bebo? (from Corporate Dealmaker)

It was reported that Time Warner Inc.'s AOL LLC is cutting 10% of its ranks, or about 700 people. AOL CEO Randy Falco provided "some perspective" on that and other cost cutting decisions, while the company tries to grow its publishing, advertising and social media businesses. However, one in-depth...

Posted on January 28, 2009 4:54 PM

AOL's $850M Bebo buy and its active deal team (from Corporate Dealmaker)

While private equity attracts attention for investment blowups rather than buying companies (example: Carlyle Capital), strategics remain active. Wednesday we wrote about AOL LLC and its recent...

Posted on March 13, 2008 1:42 PM

Roundup of 2007 new media deals (from Corporate Dealmaker)

Looking for an exhaustive list of last year's bumper crop of deals in the new-media world? The folks at Peachtree Media Advisors have prepared one. You can find a copy of it here. And here's Peachtree's view on what's in store for this year: "In 2008, expect more traditional...

Posted on January 4, 2008 5:51 PM