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Local Listings Angie's List Gets Another Big One: $18 Million In Venture Debt — Home improvement and contractor online listings and review service Angie's List has picked up $18 million in venture debt from Lighthouse Capital Partners. It's the second double-digit round of funding the Indianapolis-based company has received just this year—Battery Ventures invested $35 million in the service for a minority stake in April. Angie's List expanded from covering just home-focused companies like plumbers to health care providers in March, and will use the new funds to scale out to other categories and internationally. It also is a major underwriter of shows on NPR and other public radio, and that probably takes a... [Tags: access company, angie, battery ventures, capital partners, chunk]

Back in the day, when consumer connection to the Internet was in its infancy and some cynics thought online access was just a passing fad, I bought a few shares of AOL stock. It seemed to me that the first company who made it really easy to get and use an online account and email address would grow really rapidly.I think the value of those shares tripled or quadrupled before I sold them. I should have held on longer.AOL grew rapidly because they made it easy - really easy - to get on line. You could argue that their version... [Tags: access company, allan hoffman, amazon, aol, cynics]

Earnings: Macrovision Q2 Revs Up 11 Percent; $50M Cost Savings Outlook Intact — Macrovision (NSDQ: MVSN) Solutions, the successor to Macrovision and Gemstar, has reported Q2 revenue of $148.6 million, up 10.7 percent compared to $133.9 million. The numbers assume that the two had been merged last year, and it excludes certain ops marked for discontinuation, like TV Guide and the games business, which has been sold. Adjusted pro-forma EBITDA (yes, that's three layers of adjustments but necessary to get a clean comparison out of this release) was $39.2 million, up from $33.5 million. The technology solutions business grew 21 percent to $105.9 million, while the media networks side fell to $42.6 million... [Tags: 5 million, 50 million, 6 million, access company, discontinuation]