Huffington Post Hits 37 Million Monthly Visitors, 1 Billion Pageviews; Acquires Localocracy

The Huffington Post Media Group (HPMG), which I should point out is owned by our parent company AOL, is to announce an acquisition today, along with some key stats, hires and new site launches. Kara Swisher obtained and published the press release.HMPG has acquired Localocracy, an "online town common" where registered voters weigh in on local issues and come together to solve problems in their communities, using their real names. ]]>

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Million

• On The Heels Of Nabbing 7 HP Execs, Cyber Security Startup AlienVault Raises $8 Million
• E-Commerce Site For Household Goods Alice.com Raises $3.6 Million
• TrialPay Raises $40 Million From Visa, Greylock, T.Rowe Price
• Artspace Raises $2.5 Million For Its Contemporary Art Marketplace
• YC Alum Curebit Raises $1.2 Million For Online Referral System
• Maker Of Taxi-Ordering App myTaxi Raises €10 Million From Daimler, Lars Hinrichs
• Mozilla’s Anti-SOPA Message Reached 40 Million People
• Pulse Jumped From 1 Million To 11 Million Downloads In 2011; Now Seeing Download Every 2 Seconds
• Google Collected 4.5 Million Anti-SOPA Signatures Today
• Oops – Sony Ericsson Swings To A 207 Million Euro Net Loss In Q4 2011
• Data Storage Company Nexenta Scores $21 Million In Series C Funding
• Sociocast Raises $1.5 Million For ‘Big Data’ Analytics Solutions
• New Social Discovery App Ntro Launches, Backed By $1.7 Million In Funding
• Market For Mobile Health Apps Projected To Quadruple To $400 Million By 2016
• Aviary’s Tools Are Powering One Million Edited Photos Per Week On Mobile Alone
• €1000 Virtual Item For Game Raises €2 Million In 4 Days For Bigpoint
• AppBoy Raises A Cool Million To Let App Developers Better Engage And Understand Their User Base
• Seagate Awarded $525 million in Arbitration with Western Digital
• Ebyline Raises $5 Million From E.W. Scripps To Help News Organizations Fight Off Content Farms
• Pinkdingo Raises $1.4 Million To Make Charity Easier By Killing The Checkout Page
• Japanese Telco KDDI Buys Content Delivery Network CDNetworks For $167 Million
• Founders Fund Leads $33 Million D Round In Learning Startup Knewton
• Care.com Raises $25 Million
• Less Than A Month After Winning Disrupt, Shaker Raises $15 Million
• Cloud Services Provider Six Degrees Group Launches In UK With $94 Million In Funding

Acquires

• Groupon Acquires NYC-Based Startup Hyperpublic
• Tremor Video Acquires ‘InPlay’ Video Analytics Tech From TubeMogul
• API Management Service Apigee Acquires Mobile Data Platform Usergrid
• Young Polling Startup Pollbob Acquires Older Site Misterpoll
• Apple Acquires Anobit: Bringing NAND Endurance Technology In-House
• Smule Acquires Khush To Further Boost Their Music Cred
• Citrix Acquires ShareFile, The “Dropbox For Enterprises”
• Trivantis Acquires Flash Content Creation And Digital Signage Platform Flypaper
• HomeAway Acquires Social Vacation Rentals App Second Porch

Billion

• Analytics Startup Mixpanel Is Tracking 4 Billion Actions Each Month — And It’s Cash-Flow Positive
• Study: U.S. Consumer Spending On Virtual Goods Grew To $2.3 Billion In 2011
• Analyst: Facebook Will Make $1.2 Billion Annually From Mobile Ads
• Andreessen Horowitz Closes $1.5 Billion New Fund
• Cowen: Google’s Mobile Ad Revenues Could Surge To $5.8 Billion In 2012
• Larry Page: Display Advertising Is A $5 Billion Business
• Palantir Technologies Raises $70 Million At $2.5 Billion Valuation
• Google: +1 Button Served 2.3 Billion Times A Day (Or Is It 5 Billion?)
• Updated: The License Agreement: Intel to Pay NVIDIA $1.5 Billion

Huffington

• France Will See Launch Of ‘Le Huffington Post’ Before Year’s End

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