The Year In Deals (2007 Edition)
Erick Schonfeld
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We covered a lot of financial deals at TechCrunch in 2007, including both venture fundings and acquisitions. The list is not meant to be comprehensive, but rather to give a flavor for the deals that went down in 2007. The year started out with eBay’s acquisition of StubHub and rumors of its StumbleUpon deal. Google agreed to buy DoubleClick fopr $3.1 billion, but has yet to consummate the deal. Meanwhile, Microsoft bought aQuantive, Yahoo bought RightMedia, and AOL bought a bunch of ad networks. Cisco bought WebEx for $3.2 billion. CBS bought Last.fm and Wallstrip, among other deals. Facebook raised $240 million from Microsoft. And in venture funding, everyone from Joost and Meebo to Revsion3 and Twitter were able to dip their hands in the honey pot. Below are some of the Web 2.0 and tech deals that stood out in 2007. See also our Most Popular Posts, Year in DeadPool, and Year in TechCrunch Headlines.
- Tesla Asks Investors For Another $40 Million To Start Its Engines. December 21
- Breaking: Kayak Raises $196 Million, Buys Rival SideStep, December 20
- NewsGator Gets $12 Million, December 13
- Viacom Inks $500 Million Ad Deal With Microsoft; Makes a Hollywood Play For Videogames Too, December 19
- MyStrands Completes B Round, $55 Million Raised To Date, December 4
- AdBrite Takes In Another $23 Million, November 29
- Another $60 Million For Facebook, November 30
- Blowtorch Raises $50 Million to Launch a New Hollywood Studio, November 15
- Google Gets Android Apps Going With a $10 Million Challenge, November 12
- Barry Diller Uncomplicates His Life—Splits IAC Five Ways, November 5
- Jim Breyer: Extra $500 Million Round For Facebook A “Total Fiction”, November 2
- More Ad Network Deals—Specific Media Raises $100 Million, AOL Close to Buying Quigo For $300 Million, November 1
- Automattic Spurns $200 Million Acquisition Offer, October 29
- Facebook Takes the Microsoft Money And Runs. October 24
- Next New Networks Acquires BarelyPolitical.com, October 17
- Alibaba.com To Raise $1.3 Billion From IPO, October 15
- Breaking: Newsvine Acquired By MSNBC.com, October 7
- Sling Media Sells Out to EchoStar, September 26
- Demand Media Takes $100 Million Series C, September 25
- Zillow Raises $30 Million More, Up To $87 Million in Venture Capital, September 19
- Breaking: Yahoo Acquires Zimbra For $350 million in Cash September 17
- Google To Invest $10 Million In Green Startups, September 12
- Yahoo! Acquires Ad Network BlueLithium, September 4
- DailyMotion Raises $34 Million; Another Copyright Infringing Success Story, August 30
- Jaxtr Closes $10 Million Series A; Announces 1 Million Users, August 27
- VOIP Startup Fring Raises $12 Million Series B, August 10
- Hearst Acquires Kaboodle for $30+ million, August 8
- Alibaba.com IPO Confirmed, July 30
- Twitter Gets Their Venture Round, July 26
- Business.com Sells for $350 Million, July 26
- A Web 1.0 Success Story: HP Acquires Opsware For $1.6 billion, July 23
- Social Networking Site Hi5 Takes $20 million, July 22
- Redfin Takes $12 Million Series C Financing Amid Realtor War, july 17
- Healthline Gets $21 Million and Some New Friends, July 16
- Google Acquires Postini for $625 million, July 9
- Sugar Publishing Raises New Round; Partners With NBC Universal, June 26
- Google To Acquire GrandCentral, June 24
- Revision3 Raises $8 million From Greylock, June 24
- Yahoo Acquires Rivals for $100 million, June 20
- $20 Million For Prosper: P2P Lending, June 20
- Veoh Takes $26 million Round C, June 14
- Openads Opensource project Raises $5 million, June 13
- eBay’s StumbleUpon Acquisition: Confirmed at $75 Million, May 30
- CBS Acquires Europe’s Last.fm for $280 million, May 30
- $100 Million Payday For Feedburner - This Deal Is Confirmed, May 23
- Microsoft Pays $6 billion for aQuantive: Massive Ad Network Consolidation Is Occurring, May 18
- CBS Acquires WallStrip for $5 million, May 13
- Joost Announces $45 million Funding From Sequoia, Index, CBS & Viacom, May 9
- Confirmed: MySpace To Acquire Photobucket For $250 Million, May 7
- Panama Not Enough To Battle Google: Yahoo Acquires RightMedia, April 29
- eBay Acquiring StumbleUpon, April 18
- Breaking: Google Spends $3.1 Billion To Acquire DoubleClick, April 13
- Comscore Files To Go Public, April 3
- Cisco Buys WebEx for $3.2 Billion., March 15
- Microsoft Acquires TellMe., March 14
- $100 Million Valuation for Geni, March 5
- TellMe for Sale., February 26
- Meebo Announces $9 Million Series B Round, January 17
- It’s Official - eBay is Buying StubHub For $310 million. January 10
- Yahoo Buys MyBlogLog. No, They Didn’t. Wait, Yes. January 8, 2007
