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I have some friends who work at Jellyfish, an online ad startup in Madison. Well, although they are bad poker players, they must be good at negotiating as they just sold JellyFish to Microsoft:

We want to welcome some new folks to the Live Search family - we recently purchased a company called Jellyfish.com, based in Madison, Wisconsin.  Jellyfish has done some really innovative work in comparative shopping engines. We think the technology has some interesting potential applications as we continue to invest heavily in shopping and commerce as a key component of Live Search.  Stay tuned for more great stuff from our new colleagues in Madison!

Interesting to see that announcement from the Live Search team... hmmm :)

The other WSJ (the WISCONSIN State Journal) has more details.

Congrats guys. Great to see a Rails + Madison startup do so well!