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Machinima Gets $35M In Funding, Led By Google
techcrunch.com 1 week, 2 days agoAfter being first reported by AllThingsD , online video creator Machinima confirmed Monday that it has closed a $35 million funding round led by Google, which also included existing investors Redpoint Ventures and MK Capital. The new financing comes as Google’s YouTube has been investing heavily in bringing in all sorts of new original programming. The Machinima network is the largest single page view generator for YouTube, with more than 1.6 billion video views in the month of April. And YouTube is an inva
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Report: Thompson Out, Media Man Levinsohn In As Yahoo’s Interim CEO
techcrunch.com 2 weeks, 3 days agoWe’re still confirming the news with Yahoo but AllThingsD’s Kara Swisher is reporting that as of tomorrow, Scott Thompson will be leaving his role as CEO of Yahoo, and getting replaced, on an interim basis, by Ross Levinsohn, currently the global media head. Update : Thompson’s now officially out and Levinsohn’s in. Read the updated report here . Thompson’s position has been mired in controversy since news broke the other week that he had lied about his qualifications , and that situation seemed to be going










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