Mediagazer: Google Acquires AdMeld For $400 Million (Michael Arrington/TechCrunch)

10:10 AM ET, June 10, 2011

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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:

Google Acquires AdMeld For $400 Million — AdMeld, an advertising optimization platform for publishers, has been acquired by Google for around $400 million according to multiple sources. The company, which launched in 2007, has raised just $30 million in venture capital from Foundry Group …

Discussion: The Official Google Blog, Fast Company, paidContent, eMedia Vitals, WebProNews, Bits, AllThingsD, Softpedia News, Search Engine Land, AdAge, AdExchanger.com, VentureBeat and Betabeat, more at Techmeme »

Maureen Farrell / Forbes.com:

Former Time Warner CEO on “delicious ironies” of AOL-HuffPo Merger — Don't expect former Time Warner CEO Gerald Levin to call up Tim Armstrong with advice on AOL's buyout of the Huffington Post. “I've made it a practice recalling the time when I was CEO and calls that I would get not to talk …

Discussion: Market Wire

Alex Salkever / Street Fight:

Patch's Main Problem? Paltry Pay — When I was working at AOL a few years back, the recruiter for Patch.com came through the West Coast offices and I spoke to her a bit about building out the fast-growing hyperlocal news blog company that is something of a bet-the-future venture …

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Which will save AOL: Huffington Post or Patch?

Discussion: Poynter, San Francisco Peninsula … and SAI

Derek Willis / The Caucus:

Help Us Review the Sarah Palin E-Mail Records — On Friday, the State of Alaska will release more than 24,000 of Sarah Palin's e-mails covering much of her tenure as governor of Alaska. Times reporters will be in Juneau, the state capital, to begin the process of reviewing the e-mails …

Discussion: New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, Big Journalism, FishbowlNY, Poynter, ReadWriteWeb, Los Angeles Times, Yahoo! News, The Daily Caller, Future of Journalism, WebProNews, Hot Air, The Wire and Media Research Center

Ryan Kellett / Washington Post:

Help analyze the Palin e-mails — UPDATE: We have had a strong response to our crowdsourcing call-out on the Palin e-mails. We've reconsidered our approach and now would like to invite comments and annotations from any interested readers. — Here's how to participate:Over 24,000 e-mail messages …

Discussion: National Review, The Atlantic Wire, The Wire, Runnin' Scared, @mlcalderone, The Right Scoop, The Daily Caller and On Media's Blog

Sara Jerome / Hillicon Valley:

FCC says news outlets could make money from online ad tracking — A Federal Communications Commission (FCC) report released Thursday encourages policymakers to see the benefits in behavioral advertising as a debate rages in Washington on how to regulate online tracking to protect the personal data of consumers.

Discussion: paidContent, eMedia Vitals, Media News, CNET News and Free Press, Thanks:gnagesh

New York Times:
A Federal Study Finds That Local Reporting Has Waned

Discussion: Associated Press, Nieman Journalism Lab, Poynter, rbr.com, Fast Company, Future of Journalism, The Atlantic Wire, Multichannel, Gawker, radioworld.com, FishbowlNY, Gannett Blog and The Rural Blog

Rem Rieder / American Journalism Review: No Federal Bailout for Journalism

fcc.gov:
Information Needs of Communities

Discussion: Company Town, Street Fight, Guardian, Poynter, CJR, Kirk LaPointe's …, TVNewser, Mediactive and Technology360

Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:

Huffpo Tops NY Times in Traffic, But With a Huge Asterisk — Unique visitors, in millions, to AOL and the Huffington Post, as well as the unduplicated total — Arianna Huffington has The New York Times in her crosshairs, and she's packing some major artillery: Her site now has more traffic than the Times.

Discussion: The Wire, Poynter, memeburn, Guardian and On Media's Blog

The Atlantic Wire:

The Huffington Post Passes The New York Times in Traffic — According to a Huffington Post editor who asked not to be named, HuffingtonPost.com passed NYTimes.com in traffic last month. The May numbers reflect a boost seen by a number of news sites. (With 10 million unique visitors …

Discussion: FishbowlNY, Future Journalism Project, Poynter and Future of Journalism

Jxpaton / Digital First:

WAN IFRA International Newsroom Summit: How The Crowd Saved Our Company — Good morning. — As career journalists and managers we have entered a new era where what we know and what we traditionally do has finally found its value in the marketplace and that value is about zero.

Bloomberg:

YouTube in Network Deal Talks With Operators, Manufacturers — Google Inc. (GOOG)'s YouTube division said it is in talks with all major mobile operators on an agreement to pool efforts to reduce the impact of video content on telecommunications networks. — YouTube, the world's …

Discussion: Future of Journalism, Softpedia News and The Next Web

Rob Gurwitt / Stateline.org:

Only four years old, the nonprofit online news site MinnPost has yet to match its cross-town rival, the venerable Minneapolis Star Tribune, for size, budget or readership. But it sure can bring out big names for a party. — At MinnPost's April 1 “MinnRoast” fundraiser …

Discussion: Future of Journalism and Nieman Journalism Lab

Keach Hagey / On Media's Blog:

The editorial dilemma of Huma's pregnancy — The news that Anthony Weiner's wife, Huma Abedin, is pregnant had been known and agonized over in newsrooms, including this one, for more than 24 hours before it was reported on Wednesday night. — It presented one of the toughest editorial dilemmas in recent memory.

Discussion: TIME.com, The New Yorker Blog and Big Government

Chris O'Shea / FishbowlNY:

Meredith Expands, Adds to Leadership — Meredith National Media Group has promoted and added to its leadership team. The four promotions include Gayle Butler to Executive Vice President & Group Creative Content Leader and Editor-in-Chief of Better Homes and Gardens, Jim Carr …

Discussion: Adweek

Ken Doctor / Nieman Journalism Lab:

The newsonomics of defense and offense — Editor's Note: Each week, Ken Doctor — author of Newsonomics and longtime watcher of the business side of digital news — writes about the economics of news for the Lab. — Walter Hussman deserves a good laugh. Hussman, publisher …

Discussion: CJR and Newsonomics

Ellie Behling / eMedia Vitals:

AddThis tracks real-time content sharing — Publishers trying to track their social media footprint are challenged by the increasing number of ways users can share content. Clearspring's AddThis, a popular sharing platform for publishers, recently added new functionality for tracking …

Discussion: Mashable!

Joshua Benton / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Apple makes its subscription rules more friendly to news organizations; but were they really the target? — Interesting news on the Apple/news-biz front: Apple appears to have backed away from its requirement that subscriptions to content (such as a newspaper or magazine) …

Discussion: TechCrunch, The Next Web and TeleRead