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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.

Alan Meckler To Buy Back Content Sites

Jupitermedia may be sold to Getty Images, but it is reported (as I speculated yesterday) that CEO Alan Meckler will buy back  all assets that are not Jupiterimages.

Jupitermedia To Be Acquired By Getty?

The New York Post reports that Getty Images is considering a purchase of digital image rival Jupitermedia Corp.  The purchase price would likely be an amount substantially higher than Jupitermedia's current stock price of around $8 per share. Over the last few years Jupitermedia has become a major player in online imaging by acquiring more than 25 online subscription image sites including Comstock and Photos.com.

Jupiter Research Becomes JupiterKagan

A $10.1 million price tag allowed MCG Capital Corporation's JupiterKagan to purchase Jupiter Research from the Jupitermedia Corporation.