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99¢ Only Stores is inviting everyone in celebrating its 25th anniversary on Thursday, August 9th, 2007. Make sure to be one of the first in line in their first store located in 6854 La Tijera Boulevard (Westchester area of Los Angeles) where an Apple 4gb iPhone will be sold for just 99¢ to the first nine customers.
Originally posted on August 4, 2007 @ 9:22 am
MatchMyPet.com, an online pet breeding platform, announced its new EncycloPETia Question and Answer application. The free EncycloPETia is an easy-to-use application allowing pet owners to ask questions and receive answers about their pets from knowledgeable community members. 

Collaborating with Yedda.com, a social search Questions and Answers Platform, MatchMyPet.com provides an easy way for its members to reach out to its large community of pet lovers to answer pet-related questions. Through Yedda’s matching technology, questions will be automatically sent to members of the community with relevant knowledge and experience. This will enable the EncycloPETia to actively reach out and answer questions quickly. 

Through the partnership with Yedda, questions posted on EncycloPETia will also be visible on Yedda.com and may be syndicated to extended Yedda’s partners’ communities in related domains, which will enable MatchMyPet.com to reach new and targeted users.
Originally posted on August 3, 2007 @ 2:06 pm
Current TV has appointed AKQA, an independent digital marketing agency, to provide online media buying and planning services.
“This is a politically and technologically engaged demographic and our goal is to attract new viewers and increase awareness of Current TV’s user-generated short-form programming,” said Scott Symonds, Executive Media Director, AKQA. “We want to encourage viewers to join the conversation by submitting content via current.tv, get it on TV and get paid for their work.”
Originally posted on August 3, 2007 @ 10:26 am
SharedBook Inc. introduced an enhanced version of its Blog2Print blog printing widget with a new embedded photo feature and improved performance overall.
Blog2Print offers a one-click way to turn blog posts into printed book products. The widget also provides bloggers with an opportunity to monetize the content on their site(s) by receiving a 20 percent share of the retail price of all blog books made by others of their content.
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With the enhanced version, Blog2Print now automatically flows photographs and other images into blog book format along with the appropriate text, similar to the way content appears online. Additional enhancements include the ability to format more complex blogs. All updates will seamlessly apply to the Blog2Print widgets that have been placed on blogs to date.
Originally posted on August 2, 2007 @ 12:05 pm
HandHeld Entertainment, Inc., a global digital entertainment company, announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire eBaum’s World, Inc., one of the Internet’s premier online entertainment sites, offering user-generated videos, games, jokes, photos and other content.
Founded in 1998, eBaum’s World is one of the oldest and most successful user-generated content sites in the world, generating approximately $5.2 million in revenue and $1.6 million in net income before income taxes in 2006. During the last 12 months, eBaum’s World served more than 2.5 billion unique page views and video streams, with an average time on site per user visit of more than 10 minutes. The company has relationships with such leading media companies as AOL Video, Facebook, FOX Mobile and others.
Under the terms of the acquisition, which is expected to close later this year, HandHeld will pay $17.5 million for eBaum’s World at closing, including $15.0 million in cash, $5.0 million in common stock, which is subject to a $2.5 million one-year hold-back based on achievement of certain financial targets. In addition, HandHeld may pay earn-outs of up to $32.5 million ($17.5 million in stock and $15.0 million in cash) over three years to the owners of eBaum’s World, dependent on the achievement of certain financial and operational milestones of the purchased business.
Originally posted on August 2, 2007 @ 7:21 pm