Online Media M&A Timeline: Yahoo! grabs JumpCut

Now that Microsoft's MSN is in the game with Soapbox, techtainment giants Apple, NewsCorp, Google, and Yahoo! know they're in for a battle. And they're desperate to acquire audience from some of the up and coming start-ups in the wild west of online media. Here's a select timeline of techtainment online media acqusitions, leading up to yesterday's Yahoo! announcement:

• July 19, 2005 - News Corp. acquires Intermix Media (MySpace parent) for $770M
  
• August 23, 2006 - Sony Home Entertainment buys Grouper for $65M

and after announcing a partnership with CurrentTV

• September 27, 2006 - Yahoo! acquires JumpCut for an undisclosed amount

Whose the next online media acquiree, you ask? THR predicts YouTube, Revver, and Brightcove - but not necessarily in that order.