The Wall Street Journal, the Las Vegas Review-Journal, the San Diego Union-Tribune and the Seattle Times were among the winners of the 4th annual Adicio Best Practices Awards. The recipients are Adicio client Web sites judged by Classified Intelligence LLC to have excelled in their presentation of online careers, motors and real estate classifieds.

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Blogging software developer Pluck Corp. was purchased by Santa Monica, Calif.-based private venture firm Demand Media. No financial details were disclosed.

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Media General is acquiring shopping portal DealTaker.com from NARAE Enterprises Inc. The Web site provides coupons, rebates and bargains, many of them exclusive to DealTaker.com. It has more than 400,000 unique visitors per month and offers a number of active community forums.

French daily newspaper Liberation selected Web content management and text mining engine applications from Nstein Technologies Inc. to support its Web. 2.0 activities. The software will mesh with the paper’s current editorial system.

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Ultimate Technographics released Ink Ready 2.0, adding such features as global value adjustments to compensate for press miscalibration, enhanced report printing and support for Acrobat 8.

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Gannett Co. Inc. is rolling out localized editions of Cozi Group Inc.’s organizational software across its broadcast and newspaper Web sites.

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Prospero, whose social networking software is used by a number of newspapers, was purchased by Burlington, Mass.-learning software developer Mzinga. No financial details were disclosed.

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Canoe.ca, which provides content for Sun Media newspaper sites in Canada, will begin offering iMedia International Inc.’s Hollywood Previews under terms of a licensing agreement announced last week.

Canoe.ca will manage the XML-based content feed and make it available through its video channel, iMedia said.