Technorati Acquires Adult Ad Network AdEngage

San Francisco based  Blog search and tracking company Technorati has purchased AdEngage, an online ad network that reportedly serves over 12 billion ads across 4,000 websites per month.Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
AdEngage’s platform to lay groundwork for self-service ad network, Technorati Engage, which targets blogs and social media sites. Engage went [...]

WordPress Parent Automattic Buys Polling Site PollDaddy

PollDaddy was never related to GoDaddy, but now it is part of the WordPress family. Automattic, the developer of the WordPress blogging platform, has acquired Irish startup Polldaddy for an undisclosed sum.
The purchase gives WordPress an infusion of polling technology and seems to be justified simply on the basis that bloggers love polls.

Automattic acquires IntenseDebate

In an announcement on their blog, Intense Debate stated that they have been acquired by Automattic.
IntenseDebate is a comment system that enhances and encourages discussion on your blog or website. This is done via comment threading, replying via email and an ability to import and export comments.

What’s in store for us users?
Automattic plans on keeping [...]

EBay looking to Sell StumbleUpon

eBay’s tie-up with StumbleUpon may be about to tumble. According to various rumors today, eBay has hired Deutsche Bank to handle a sale of its Web site discovery service StumbleUpon, which eBay bought for $75 million in early 2007.It was never clear to us why eBay bought StumbleUpon in the first place. When the acquisition [...]