OleOle, the social football site where the users author most of the content, has acquired AVFC Blog, the leading Aston Villa journal with 200,000 monthly visits - said to be…

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Datamonitor founder Mike Danson, who bought half of left-leaning current affairs mag New Statesman from Labour MP Geoffrey Robinson in April, has invested a five-figure sum to buy a majority…

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MessyMedia, an attempt by Yahoo’s (NSDQ: YHOO) former European news director to set up a Gawker-style UK blog publisher, has just been shut down - or at least, the blog…

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You’re reading it here first... Italian social media entertainment operator Dada has bought a 10 percent stake in the owner of interactive on-demand TV channel Music Box for €750,000, as…

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Italian online entertainment publisher Dada has bought another 40 percent of blog network Blogo.it‘s owner E-box for €1.6 million, taking its stake up to 70 percent. Blogo.it is Italy’s most…

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Russian news publisher Kommersant has acquired half of LiveJournal owner Sup in exchange for giving the blog operator control of its Gazeta.ru news portal. LiveJournal had integrated its features in…

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Why did Movable Type maker Six Apart sell blog community LiveJournal in December, just three years after buying it? At the World Association of Newspapers congress in Gothenburg, the company’s…

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No surprise here, but AOL (NYSE: TWX) is to export its new vertical lifestyle content strategy to Europe, with recently-debuted men’s blog Aylsum and music blog Spinner planned to launch…

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East-European TV net Central European Media Enterprises (CME) is buying Jyxo, operator of Czech blog portal Blog.cz, from founder Michal Illich and investor Centralway for between 163 million and 200…

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Here’s a load of arse. Niche football social media site OleOle, based in Beverly Hills, has bought an Arsenal FC fan blog called ArseBlog for an undisclosed, but likely small,…

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Gawker Media publisher Nick Denton sparked controversy last month (not least amongst his writers) with a new salary structure that rewards bloggers based on traffic earned rather than with a…

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-- Hello: Before Gawker, folks got their celebrity gossip from the likes of Hello magazine. The distinction may now be clear that Hello treats long-form features best while blogs excel…

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Veteran blog host LiveJournal has joined the wave of social media sites trying to win larger audiences by opening a formal developer effort. Launched last night, LJ Labs will usher…

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Ill-fated weblog network Blognation appears to have taken one step closer to retirement or hiatus. The site’s designer-developers Howard/Baines have scrapped the front page in favour of this succinct message……

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Variety rubbishes the UK movie blog scene as virtually non-existent - the perfect space in which professional media outfits can thrive, it suggests. Specifically, the mag says, whilst US amateur…

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Weblog network Blognation‘s founder Sam Sethi is relinquishing control to make way for what he says are potential buyers after failing to secure hoped-for funding. Contributors are owed several months’…

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French radio station Skyrock is looking to sell off its highly successful online operation, according to French magazine Challenge. The pop music station was founded by Pierre Bellanger and added…

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From our sister site paidContent.org: LiveJournal, the pioneering online journal-writing/blogging service which was bought by MovableType parent company SixApart almost three years ago, is now being sold off to Russian…

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A pair of cases in the High Court last week highlighted the increasing difficulty for forum owners who don’t want to be accountable for posts made by their members. The…

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- BBC: BBC News’ HQ is to open an integrated newsroom, bringing online staff together with those from TV and radio. BBC TV news boss will lead integration, which will…

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- Shiny Ads: So that’s what the .tv domains were for? UK blog publishing house Shiny Media is to begin a range of web video channels with pre-roll video advertising.…

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A new social media application for mobile phones launches from London on Friday. Trutap, a downloadable app, offers blog posting, multi-protocol IM, group SMS, web photo-sharing and access to existing…

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German media group Hubert Burda has bought a minority stake in New York-based science publisher Seed Media Group to bring its ScienceBlogs network to Europe. Launched in 2006, ScienceBlogs is…

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Lloyd Shepherd, a former online publishing director with Yahoo Europe and Guardian Unlimited, is launching his own UK blog network, Messy Media. Shepherd left his second stint at Yahoo (as…

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British blog publishing house Shiny Media is crossing the Atlantic, aiming to launch up to 10 US sites in the next few months. Jointly founded in 2004 by technology journalist…

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