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FeedBurner

FeedBurner is the web’s most popular RSS feed handler and feed service provider. They manage the feed distribution for a good number of the Internet’s largest content publishers and provide a variety of services to help bloggers, podcasters and commercial publishers track subscribers and promote, deliver and profit from their content on the Web.

One of the most recent Chicago startup success stories, they were acquired by Google on July 1st 2007 for approximately $100 million. They have since moved into Google’s Chicago offices at 20 W Kinzie.

People: Dick Costolo CEO, Matt Shobe, Eric Lunt, Steve Olechowski
Funding: Mobius Venture Capital, Portage Venture Partners, Sutter Hill Ventures, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Union Square Ventures
Status: Acquired by Google July 1st 2007
Website: http://www.feedburner.com
Blog: http://blogs.feedburner.com/feedburner/
Location: Google Chicago Headquarters

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