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Online Travel Network O...

TravelShark (the startup formerly known as Swiftrank), which operates an online travel network, this morning announced that it has closed a $5 million round of financing from DLA Holdings, a Singapore-based private equity firm. TravelShark has raised a total of $8 million to date. TravelShark says it boasts more than 12,000 location-based travel websites, covering destinations around the globe, aimed to generate revenue for travel companies by driving direct bookings to hotels, resorts, spas, and more through its Featured Hotel Program . The company says more than 600 hotels and interactive marketing agencies in more than 20 countries currently participate in said Featured Hotel Program to promote global visibility. Partners include Intercontinental Hotels Group, MGM Resorts, TIG Global, and others. CrunchBase Information TravelShark Information provided by CrunchBase

Evolve Media Acquires C...

Digital media company Evolve Media has acquired Crowd Ignite , a content exchange engine that contextually connects audiences of similar interests, the company announced this morning. The price it paid was not disclosed, with TechCrunch has learned that the deal value was low: $1 million in cash, equity and earn-out commitments, to be precise. Crowd Ignite enables publishers within defined audience verticals to share their content within a closed network, thereby exposing their content to relevant users on other sites and allowing them to acquire new users and grow their audience. Crowd Ignite’s proprietary technology is able to track which pieces of content within a site are the most popular, present it to users on sites within the network and then optimize the landing page in a way that presents the content they are most likely to want to consume. Crowd Ignite has over 300 publishers participating across such verticals as women, fashion, parenting, movies, gaming, and male-lifestyle. This is where the acquisition makes sense. Evolve Media combines an ad sales business (Gorilla Nation), a video solution (Springboard) and an interactive marketing business unit (Double Helix) with a publishing business (AtomicOnline), which includes such properties as SheKnows, CraveOnline, TheFashionSpot, GameRevolution and Momtastic in its portfolio. The Crowd Ignite team will continue to run day-to-day operations post acquisition. The company’s founder and creator, Jake Moilanen, will continue as MD. CrunchBase Information Evolve Media Corp. Information provided by CrunchBase

Advertising Giant Publi...

Publicis Groupe , the French advertising colossus, announced today that it will acquire Princeton-based interactive marketing agency Rosetta for $525 million in cash, plus later milestone payments. As one of the “big four” advertising holding companies, Publicis competes with Interpublic , Omnicom , and WPP , which each generated at least $6 billion in revenue in 2010 and employ at least 40K people. With sizable competition and online advertising growth picking up by 15 percent in 2010 , the French company is looking to increase its presence in digital interactive advertising. The company’s proposed goal is to increase digital revenue from 28 percent of total revenue to 35 percent by 2013. After snatching up Razorfish in 2009, Publicis continues with smart forays into digital advertising with its acquisition of Rosetta, which was called the second largest digital advertising agency in the U.S. in 2010 by Advertising Age — and is expected to generate $250 million in annual revenue in 2011. Rosetta’s clients run from healthcare to tech, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Hewlett-Packard, Johnson & Johnson, RIM, and T-Mobile, among others. As part of the acquisition, the agency will become part of Publicis’s VivaKi digital wing, but will remain a standalone brand under the continuing leadership of Rosetta’s founder & CEO Chris Kuenne. Kuenne will be reporting to Jean-Yves Naouri, Publicis’ Chief Operating Officer. The transaction is expected to close in the second or third quarter, and manager-shareholders could receive a potential deferred payment in 2014 based on the agency’s performance between 2011 and 2013, Publicis said. CrunchBase Information Publicis Groupe Rosetta Information provided by CrunchBase

eBay Gets Closer To Clo...

eBay last month announced that it has agreed to buy GSI Commerce , a provider of ecommerce and interactive marketing services, for $29.25 a share, or total consideration of approximately $2.4 billion . Under the terms of the merger agreement, GSI Commerce reserved the right to solicit acquisition proposals from alternative parties for a period of 40 calendar days. That “go shop” period has now expired , and GSI Commerce and its financial advisor Morgan Stanley say they have not received any alternative purchase proposals in time, although they claim to have contacted “numerous potential acquirers”. This opens the door for eBay to complete the merger faster than anticipated. GSI and eBay currently expect to complete the merger at the end of the second quarter of 2011 (they previously expected the transaction to close in the third quarter of this year). In addition to the expiration of the “go shop” period, GSI Commerce this morning revealed that has received notice from the FTC granting early termination of the mandatory waiting period under the Hart-Scott Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act. Accordingly, the condition to closing in the merger agreement under the act has been satisfied. As a result, the company says it expects to file shortly with the SEC definitive proxy materials related to the special meeting of its stockholders to vote on and approve the merger. The special meeting will be held on Friday, June 17, 2011. GSI Commerce recently reported a net loss of $13.6 million for the first quarter of this year, a loss that widened from the year prior because of higher costs and expenses, including eBay acquisition-related expenses. This despite a 19 percent increase in revenues. CrunchBase Information GSI Commerce eBay Information provided by CrunchBase