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Jupitermedia Reports Fourth Quarter Results

The market's doing its best imitation of a healthy Superman this morning - up, up, and all that - but Jupitermedia has been left on the sidelines.  Following the corporation's report on its fourth quarter earnings, Jupitermedia's stock is acting in a less than heroic fashion.

Jupitermedia Purchases eStockMusic.com

Jupitermedia said today that it has purchased eStockMusic.com, a library of royalty free stock music, samples and sound effects. Terms of the deal were not released.The purchase adds a micropayment music business to Jupiterimage's micropayment offerings of royalty free digital images and footage on Stockexpert.com.eStockMusic's library is searchable and allows customers to listen to tracks before they make a purchase. Tracks sell for $1.00 for a minute and are available for direct download.

Getty Images Sells For $2.4 Billion

Just a couple of weeks after Getty Images, the world's largest stock images company, appeared to have failed to find a buyer for itself, the company announced an agreement to be sold to private equity firm Hellman & Friedman LLC for $2.4 billion. That's 55% more than the stock was valued on Wall Street.

Getty Images For Sale

Getty Images, the world's largest supplier of pictures and video to the media is for sale.

Monster Buys Affinity Labs For $61 Million Cash

Monster Worldwide, Inc. announced the purchase of Affinity Labs' year old network of vertical community sites for $61 million cash today.

Jupitermedia CEO Talks Stock, Future Developments

Transparency's nice - assuming that a person (or company) is indeed being transparent, and you're not so paranoid that you can't believe it, you get to find out many of the who-what-when-where-why details.  And in that spirit, Alan Meckler, the CEO of Jupitermedia, has announced his purchase of some stock and referenced his company's future.

Alan Meckler Slams JP Morgan For "Chickening Out"

Alan Meckler, CEO of JupiterMedia has an interesting blog post about how JP Morgan Private Bank withdrew funding from Internet.Com Venture Funds back in 2002.

Jupitermedia Folds Up Mediabistro For $23 Million

Media and creative professional job site Mediabistro joins Jupitermedia in an all-cash $23 million acquisition.

Jupitermedia Buys Two Web Sites

Jupitermedia has purchased AdsofTheWorld.com and CreativeBits.org. Both Web sites offer user-generated content for design communities and have one million unique monthly visitors combined.

Jupitermedia, Getty Deal Falls Apart

Jupitermedia has ended talks with Getty images concerning a possible merger. In a press release from February 22 the company confirmed they were in discussions with Getty Images only after speculative articles had been written in the business press about the proposed deal.