Malden, Mass. - Ars Technica, a publisher of IT and science news and information, has been acquired by the publisher Conde Nast. According to some published reports, the deal was priced at around $25 million, which is the same amount that Conde Nast paid last year for the technology-related content publisher Wired.

Sunnyvale, Calif. - Yahoo (NASD: YHOO) on Monday launched Yahoo Shine, a new website focused on the daily lives of women. The site will feature content from publishers including Conde Nast and Hearst, as well as content from Yahoo's own Food, Astrology, Health and other sites.

New York - Publisher Conde Nast's online unit CondeNet said this week that it will turn its Flip.com community site for teens into a Web application for social networking platforms, starting with Facebook. The company will continue to operate the Flip.com site, but shift development and marketing focus to distributed applications for the Flip application, which claims 300,000 users and lets teens create and share multimedia flipbooks.

New York - Publisher Conde Nast on Tuesday announced the launch of ShopVogue.TV, a video online shopping and entertainment network for its Vogue fashion magazine. The network features four channels with over 240 minutes of original programming, and more than 1,500 featured products from170 brands. The video programming allows viewers to shop as they watch, with links to e-commerce sites and the ability to send product information and store locations to cell phones. A feature called Fashion U Share also lets viewers submit photos of personal style ideas and favorite shopping, entertainment and dining locations.

New York - Google will syndicate videos online from companies including Dow Jones & Company, Conde Nast and Sony BMG, sharing ad revenue between itself, the video provider and the site hosting the video, The New York Times reported.

Santa Monica, Calif. - RingTales, a company that creates animated versions of print cartoons for Internet, mobile, broadcast and portable devices, announced that it has signed an agreement with publisher Conde Nast to create an ad-supported, video podcast of animated cartoons from The New Yorker. The free podcast, available through iTunes, will send subscribers three new animations -- or "RingTales" -- of New Yorker cartoons each week. The animations will also be available on The New Yorker's website beginning next month.

New York - Publisher Conde Nast's CondeNet digital arm has announced the launch of Flip, a new social networking site for teen girls.

New York - Food website Epicurious.com on Tuesday debuted a new Web-only video series, "Inside the CIA," that will follow several student-chefs at the Culinary Institute of America (CIA). The fifteen-week-long video series will profile four CIA students, and also feature blogs and weekly video blogs created by the students. New York-based Epicurious.com, a unit of publisher Conde Nast, claims five million monthly unique visitors.