Today’s Deals: ACTV Lights the Bottle Rocket

 ACTV (IATV) acquires Bottle Rocket

  
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Amount:        
Undisclosed

  
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Terms:           
n/a

  
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Premium:        n/a

  
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Industry:       
Content/Communities

  
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Scorecard:      B

NEW YORK, Aug. 21–ACTV announced that it
has acquired Bottle Rocket, a New York City-based developer and
distributor of interactive entertainment products for the Internet. Bottle Rocket, which will retain its
name and operate as a wholly owned subsidiary of ACTV, creates online entertainment based on
proprietary technology engines for trivia, prediction, simulation,
arcade-style, and multi-player games. The acquisition adds new features to
ACTV’s stable of proprietary enhanced media technologies and makes its an
immediate leader in online interactive games. Terms of the transaction were
not disclosed.




 

 Razorfish (RAZF) acquires Medialab
AG

  
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Amount:    &nbs

p;    $9.4
million

  
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Terms:           
446,080 shares/$1.4 million cash

  
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Premium:        n/a

  
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Industry:       
Consultants/Designers

  
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Scorecard:      B

HAMBURG, Germany, Aug. 21–Razorfish , a
global digital solutions provider, announced the acquisition of the German
e-business solutions provider Medialab AG. Munich-based Medialab is recognized throughout Germany
for its strong strategy consulting, back-end technology capabilities, and
advanced Web design work, and will strongly increase Razorfish’s presence in the German
market. The acquisition is valued at approximately $9.4 million, in which
Razorfish will issue 446,080 shares of common stock and make a cash payment
of approximately $1.4 million.




 

 Fusion Networks (FUSN) to acquire
Visualcom

  
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Amount:         n/a

  
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Terms:           
2 million shares/2.5 million warrants

  
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Premium:        n/a

  
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Industry:        Performance
software

  
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Scorecard:      C

MIAMI, Aug. 21–Fusion Networks , a
provider of one-to-one Internet marketing software, portal technology and
content, announced that it has signed a Letter of Intent to acquire
Visualcom, an Internet consulting company based in Miami, Florida
that targets companies focused on Latin America. The proposed transaction
includes the issuance to the shareholders of Visualcom of two million shares of Fusion Networks common stock and
2.5 million warrants in exchange for all of the outstanding shares of
Visualcom.