FOCUS and Intangible Insights (2i) are pleased to present to you our Internet & Digital Information (“IDI”) Quarterly Insights Report, a newsletter providing strategic insight into key market dynamics, capital markets developments, and mergers and acquisitions trends impacting participants in the IDI industry. Topics covered in this issue include:

• Some Perspective on the Current Economic Debate
• A Look at Three Key IDI Drivers
• A Look Back on Some Interesting Second Quarter Events
• Public Company Internet and Digital Information Market Valuations
• IDI M&A Activity and Trends

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Internet-Reliant Sector M&A Activity and Insights

Intangible Insights analyzes the Internet industry by functional area and by vertical. The functional areas, which we believe represent the vast majority, if not all, Internet-Reliant companies, are categorized using standard industry definitions for Content & Media, Applications, Merchandising, and Offline Service (not included in the index). We try to include pure play companies for each functional category in the 2i Stock Index, but some companies cross functional boundaries (e.g. Amazon, which generates significant merchandising revenue through the sale of third-party products but also has viable and growing revenue from its Amazon Web Services, an application function.) We include these firms because of their industry leading status.

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Part 4 of 2I’s Quarterly Internet and Digital Media M&A Report is an appendix of supporting information for our research posted in the first three sections of the Report.

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We are excited to showcase our first podcast with Rajesh Rai, a co-Founder and Partner at New Markets Venture Partners (NMVP), an early stage venture capital firm in the mid-Atlantic region. Raj had many interesting things to say and we encourage you to listen to the full interview. A few highlights follow:

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Filed Under Internet Company, Internet Trends & Drivers, Internet Valuation