Fusion Corporate Partners

The Fusion Team have completed over 70 digital and media transactions for its private, corporate and private equity clients. For more information contact pkelly@fusioncorp.co.uk or visit our website
 
FUND RAISING 
Database Reference:  F231109-334
 
Business:  Joonto (society.me)
Web:  http://society.me/society/create
Other Web Links: Twitter
Location:  USA, Mountain View, CA
Region:  North America
Business description:  Society is a social publishing platform that helps people start conversations on Twitter and Facebook and to nurture and grow communities of interest.
Category: Social Network
Contact 1:  Leonard Speiser, President, Director and co-founder
Contact 2:  Kelvin Zheng, co founder
 
Investors:  Undisclosed
Amount raised:  $575,000  
 
Details:  Joonto, owner of Society.me, a platform that helps people nurture and grow communities of interest using social networks like Twitter and Facebook, has raised $575,000.

Link:  Regulatory Filing

The Fusion Team have completed over 70 digital and media transactions for its private, corporate and private equity clients. For more information contact pkelly@fusioncorp.co.uk or visit our website
 
ACQUISITION 
FDN Database Reference:  F231109-310
 
Acquirer:  Yellow Pages Group
ACQ Web:  http://www.ypg.com
Other Web Links: Twitter 
Location:  Canada, Montreal, Quebec
Region:  North America
Description:  Yellow Pages Group publishes more than 340 Yellow Pages and residential print directories in Canada. YPG also owns and operates Canada’s most visited online directories – YellowPages.ca and Canada411.ca, along with CanadaPlus.ca, a network of seven local city sites. YellowPages.ca can be accessed on mobile devices atmobile.yp.ca. Yellow Pages Group is indirectly held by Yellow Pages Income Fund (TSX:YLO.UN).
Category:  Directory, Search
Contact 1:  Marc P. Tellier, President and Chief Executive Officer
Contact 2:  Christian M. Paupe, Executive Vice President – Corporate Services and Chief Financial Officer
Contact 3:  Nicolas Gaudreau, Vice President, Digital Media, Yellow Pages Group
 
Vendor:  Restaurantica
Web: http://www.restaurantica.com 
Other Web Links: Twitter  Blog  
Location:  Canada
Region:  North America

Description:  Established in 2003, Restaurantica currently lists some 400,000 restaurants, bars and cafes, with more than 200,000 user-generated reviews on these establishments in North America. Diners in local cities can search by specific neighbourhood and by cuisine type. Restaurantica receives more than 540,000 visits and over 1.7 million page views each month (source: Google Analytics, December 2009).

Category: Reviews, Dining
Contact:  Lance Mohring, President of Restaurantica
  
Aprox. Value:  Undisclosed
 
Details:  Yellow Pages Group (YPG) has completed the acquisition of Restaurantica, one of Canada’s largest growing restaurant and dining communities.This acquisition gives YPG the opportunity to further enhance its local content and meet users’ search needs to find trusted recommendations and reviews.

Link: Press Release

The Fusion Team have completed over 70 digital and media transactions for its private, corporate and private equity clients. For more information contact pkelly@fusioncorp.co.uk or visit our website
 
ACQUISITION 
FDN Database Reference:  F231109-308
 
Acquirer:  StockTwits
ACQ Web:  http://www.stocktwits.com  BLOG   TWITTER
Region:  North America
Description:  “StockTwits is an open, community-powered idea and information service for investments. Users can eavesdrop on traders and investors, or contribute to the conversation and build their reputation as savvy market wizards. The service takes financial related data and structures it by stock, user, reputation, etc.”
Category:  Finance
Contact 1:  Soren Macbeth, Co-Founder and CTO  Bio   TWITTER
Contact 2:  Howard Lindzon, Co-Founder and CEO of StockTwits  Bio   TWITTER
Contact 3:  Phil Pearlman, Director of Community at StockTwits  Bio   TWITTER
 
Vendor:  Abnormal Returns
Vendor Web:  http://abnormalreturns.com  TWITTER
Region:  North America
Description:  Abnormal Returns brings the best of the finance web to its readers.
Category: Finance
Contact:  Tadas Viskanta, founder and editor-in-chief
 
Aprox. Value:  Undisclosed
 
Details:  StockTwits has acquired finance website Abnormal Returns. Founder and editor in chief of Abnormal Returns, Tadas Viskanta, is joining Stocktwits.  StockTwits has raised $4.6 million over three rounds of funding. StockTwits has also announced an entire revamp of its web platform for two weeks time.
 
Link: StockTwits Blog – January 25th, 2010 entry
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The Fusion Team have completed over 70 digital and media transactions for its private, corporate and private equity clients. For more information contact pkelly@fusioncorp.co.uk or visit our website
 
ACQUISITION 
FDN Database Reference:  F231109-307
 
Acquirer:  AOL
ACQ Web:  http://www.aol.com
Location:  USA, New York, NY
Region:  North America
Description:  AOL Inc. (NYSE: AOL) is a leading global Web services company. AOL’s business spans online content, products and services that the company offers to consumers, publishers and advertisers. In addition, AOL operates one of the largest Internet subscription access services in the United States.
Category:  Online Media, Advertising
Contact:  Tim Armstrong, AOL CEO and chairman

Vendor:  StudioNow
Vendor Web:  http://www.studionow.com
Location:  USA, Nashville, TN
Region:  North America
Description:  StudioNow partners with blue chip, mid-sized and local companies to create, store, and manage content and syndicate it to online video channels and portals.
Category: Video
Contact 1:  David Mason, co-founder and CEO
Contact 2:  Adam Solesby, co-founder, CTO
Contact 3:  David Corts, COO
  
Aprox. Value:  $36,500,000 in cash and stock with a portion of the cash paid out over multiple years.
 
Details:  AOL Inc. has acquired StudioNow Inc., the online platform for video creation and distribution. The acquisition will allow AOL to integrate a fully functional video creation platform into its newly-launched content management system, Seed.com. StudioNow will also continue to develop its existing business as a provider of online video creation, management, storage and syndication services to commercial companies.
 
Link: Press Release