May 1, 2012 at 10:41am ET by Barry Schwartz

SEOmoz, the SEO toolset company, has announced they have successfully raised another $18 million in venture capital from Foundry Group and Ignition Partners. Foundry Group put in $15 million and Ignition Partners put in $3 million. Co-founder and CEO of SEOmoz, Rand Fishkin detailed the financials, growth, future plans and management changes of SEOmoz. One big change for the SEO industry is that Rand's mother and co-founder Gillian Muessig is stepping down from the board of directors and resigning her title of President. Here is the slide deck they shared: For more details see [...]

Acquisio Acquires ClickEquations & Partners With Channel Intelligence

Dec 21, 2011 at 1:48pm ET by Chris Sherman

Acquisio, provider of automated tools for search, display and social advertising, has acquired the ClickEquations search marketing platform from Channel Intelligence, and announced a partnership with that firm. Acquisio plans to integrate some of the search-focused functionality currently available on the ClickEquations platform. Acquisio’s existing clients will gain access to the Channel Intelligence Shopping Engines and Channel Intelligence Product Search solutions. ClickEquations clients will now be managed and supported by Acquisio and will have access to all Acquisio services. Mo [...]

Walmart Buys OneRiot For WalmartLabs

Sep 13, 2011 at 8:10pm ET by Danny Sullivan

Walmart is at it again with what seems an unusual purchase for the retailer. The company has just purchased social advertising company OneRiot, it's been announced. It will become part of WalmartLabs. From the OneRiot blog post: We’re delighted to announce that OneRiot has been acquired by Walmart. The OneRiot team will now be joining @Walmartlabs - Walmart’s hub for the creation of new technologies and business models integrating social, mobile and retail for the next-generation of e-commerce. And from the WalmartLabs post: A few weeks ago, a small team from @WalmartLabs visited [...]

Rimm-Kaufman Group Acquires AudetteMedia

Aug 17, 2011 at 1:00pm ET by Matt McGee

Two well-known online marketing agencies are joining forces. RKG (Rimm-Kaufman Group), based in Charlottesville, Virginia, has announced its acquisition of Bend, Oregon-based AudetteMedia. The acquisition allows RKG to continue expanding its service lineup. Long established as a leader in paid search marketing, RKG has recently added services such as shopping engine management, social media advertising and display advertising. Today's acquisition adds a highly-regarded SEO team to RKG's offerings. You may recognize both company names because their principals are both regular columnists h [...]

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Marchex Acquires 800-Free-411 Owner Jingle Networks

Apr 11, 2011 at 8:31am ET by Greg Sterling

Marchex announced this morning that it was buying Jingle Networks, operator of free directory assistance service 800-Free-411, for $62 million in cash and stock. Founded in 2004, Jingle Networks also has a pay-per-call mobile ad network. Jingle's 800-Free-411 competed with GOOG-411, which was closed down last year, and Microsoft's Bing-411, which is still operating. However Jingle was the leader in the "free directory assistance" segment. At one point I called free-DA "local-mobile search for the rest of us." That was before the dramatic growth of smartphones, which have continued to ero [...]

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