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Google to pay $100 million for Feedburner
As Google continues its march toward world domination, the search behemoth (giant just doesn't do it anymore, does it?) is in the process of buying up Feedburner.The deal, which will reportedly be official within a few weeks, is worth about $100 million in cash.
Feedburner is probably the Google of the RSS management world, making it easy to publish an enhanced RSS feed from just about any website. As of this afternoon, Feedburner is responsible for 721,074 feeds from over 422,717 publishers.
The company's founders will stay with the company for at least a few years as part of the deal.
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james 42 said 10:15PM on 5-23-2007
I'm always nervous when a service I like gets bought out. Crossing fingers.
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mustagotlost said 8:24AM on 5-25-2007
Hmmm...what has Park Place and Boardwalk?
Monopoly? Nah, that's only an MS applicable term. Seriously though it may be good to have all useful informations retrievable from one resource, I mean that is why the news networks give us all sides stories, the same as all politicians are honest:)
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