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Gawker closes barn door year after horse bolts, removes Rebecca Gayheart/Eric Dane sex tape

Today in pointless victories comes one for former Noxema girl Rebecca Gayheart and her Gray's Anatomy spouse, Eric Dane. The two were featured in a widely viewed sex tape most prominently disseminated on Gawker. The clip, a fairly ... continue

Gawker: Avid Life Media bids $20m for PerezHilton.com

Avid Life Media, the parent company of esteemed web properties like HotorNot.com, Mancrunch and married-people dating site Ashley Madison, has put in a $20m bid for PerezHilton.com, Gawker has verified. The company, who is said to have paid ... continue

Gothamist Blog Network Acquired For $5-$6 Million

The Gothamist blog network (sometimes know as the "ist" network) is believed to have been acquired by Cablevision subsidiary Rainbow Media for $5-$6 million. Founded by Jake Dobkin and Jen Chung in 2003, the Gothamist network was among ... continue

b5media Dumps Women Bloggers

The purge at blog network b5media continues with news today that they have terminated the contracts of most, if not all bloggers writing for the women focused blog Splendicity. Numbers aren't clear at this stage, but it's believed ... continue

b5media To Fire All Remaining Contract Bloggers, Approx 100-150 People

The move by b5media yesterday to terminate the contracts of over 50 bloggers writing for its now defunct entertainment network is the first stage in the mass firing of all contract bloggers, The Inquisitr has learned. The full ... continue

b5media: The Termination Email

As we reported yesterday, b5media terminated the contracts of over 50 bloggers as part of the closure of their entertainment blogs. The reaction wasn't positive, with bloggers who had been with the company since its earliest days receiving ... continue

B5media To Launch New Celebrity Site Wednesday, Bathed In Fired Blogger Blood

The mass sackings at blog network b5media today have been revealed to be part of a launch process for a new single b5media celebrity site. The new site, Crushable.com is due to launch Wednesday and is headed ... continue

Mass Firings At b5media: Entire Entertainment Network Shut

Blog network b5media has fired over 50 bloggers as part of a complete shut down of its entertainment blogs. The purged included some of the networks longest serving bloggers who worked for b5media prior to funding (see disclosure ... continue

Mathew Ingram Joins GigaOm

Canadian tech journalist Mathew Ingram has forgone for the corporate teet and joined the GigaOm blog network. Ingram writes on GigaOm that "As the web has filled up with fast-food-style news hits and me-too blog posts, each more ... continue

AOL’s Latest Brainwave: Lets Copy Demand Media

AOL has announced that its new strategy is to copy Demand Media through automated topic creation and mass outsourcing of writing to freelancers. According to a report that first appeared in the Wall Street Journal, "AOL is ... continue

The Next Web International Expansion: Inspired or Insanity? Let’s Find Out

One of the best up and coming tech blogs in the last 12 months has been The Next Web. We're big fans here at The Inquisitr, and the site not only brings a much welcomed European take ... continue

Gawker Media Launches Video Site Gawker.TV

You know times are on the up when Nick Denton starts launching new blogs instead of flogging them off or shuttering them, and today Gawker Media turned the tide of the last 18 months with a new ... continue

Mashable signs a deal with CNN

In a decent than syndicating your posts deal, Mashable announced yesterday that they've signed a deal with CNN to link to their posts from the CNN Tech page. In a serious bout of new speak, Mashable's founder (and ... continue

The Next Web Goes Supernova With 10 New Sites

The Next Web technology blog has today launched a massive expansion of its line-up with 10 new blogs covering tech across Europe and beyond. The Next Web launches eight international blogs in local languages for France, Russia, South ... continue

Report: PaidContent may come on the market as Guardian looks to raise cash

ContentNext, the company behind tech and media blog PaidContent may come on the market as parent company Guardian News and Media looks to cut costs and raise money. The unconfirmed report at Daily Finance notes that Guardian News ... continue

Eric Dane sues Gawker over McSteamy sex tape

Actor Eric Dane has filled suit against Nick Denton's Gawker Media over Gawker's publication of the now infamous "McSteamy" sex tape. According to TMZ, "Dane and and [partner Rebecca] Gayheart filed the lawsuit today in L.A. County Superior ... continue

SB Nation relaunches front page as real time aggregator, signs Fanhouse deal

Sports blog network SB Nation has relaunched its front page as a real time sports news aggregator, and has announced a deal with the AOL owned Fanhouse sports news network. The new front page of SB Nation highlights ... continue

Yardbarker sports blog network raises new round of $1.5 million

Sports blog and advertising network Yardbarker has raised $1.5 million in a round that included previous investors Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Baseline Ventures and Labrador Ventures. YardBacker is the Glam Media of the sports blogging scene, running both their ... continue