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Women’s vertical network Glam Media has announced a new round of funding to the tune of $10 million dollars. This new round comes from Japan and Germany. In Japan, the funding comes from Mizuho Venture Capital and in Germany the funding comes from Hubert Burda Media. Glam has raised over $124 million in funding to-date.

Additionally Glam entered into a new joint venture with regards to their Japanese organization, Glam Media Japan KK. The joint venture brings in investments from ad agencies Dentsu and ADK and magazine publishers Shogagukan and Syueisya. There was also a local investment by Mizuho which already is an investor in Glam Media.

Glam reports via comScore that they are the leader in reach in Germany for local women with over 3 million unique visitors a month.

David Kaplan at PaidContent has more on today’s Glam transactions. David notes that while two top execs left Glam last year, they expect to hire an additional 40 staff members this year.

Kara Swisher is reporting that the PaidContent group of blogs and conferences has been acquired by the Britain’s Guardian Media Group with the deal in the $30 million range.

Marshall Kirkpatrick has a deep dive into what PaidContent is all about and why this deal is great for the Guardian. He includes a section on why the Guardian is on fire lately. One thing he misses to note is that they have owned the Digg frontpage for quite a bit now. In fact, I sometimes wonder if Digg isn’t looking to the Guardian for a sale.

PaidContent partnered with the Washington Post earlier this year.

When I looked at creating CN, PaidContent was one of the sites I spent a lot of time researching. They put out tons of quality content and do it in a professional style. When I said on Twitter that I was excited to get a link from PaidContent earlier this week, I meant it.

One of the leading digital news blogs paidContent has announced a distribution deal with the Washington Post online today. The content partnership will bring paidContent content to the technology section of the newspaper’s Web site. I imagine it won’t be too long until we see the partnership expanded to the print edition.

Jim Brady, Executive Editor of washingtonpost.com said, "paidContent’s experts offer some of the most thorough analyses available today on the digital media industry, and will provide an important concentration in our technology section."

I’ve enjoyed reading PC from the start as they provide excellent coverage of news plus insights on the industry and they stay out of the name-calling and attacking maneuvers that some of the other large blogs engage in. As blogs continue to grow in quality and readerbase, we will see more of these newspaper distribution deals.