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In February 2011, CoveritLive was acquired by Demand Media for an undisclosed sum. [|[1]] In January 2009, CoveritLive secured $1 million in a first round of funding (from seed investor Flagstone Capital and private investor Paul Kedrosky). [|[2]] In August 2009, California-based [|Demand Media] made a strategic investment and acquired a minority stake in CoveritLive; Demand Media said it would offer services to customers of its [|Pluck] enterprise [|social media] platform, which include [|Sky News], [|NPR] , [|USA Today] and the [|NFL]. [|[3]] CoveritLive has been used to cover events including the [|May 2010 UK General Election] (//The Scotsman// [|[1]] ), the NFL Draft (2010 [|[2]] ), [|American Idol], the [|2010 Tour de France] (//Velo News// [|[3]] ) and the [|2010 FIFA World Cup] (during which it claimed 146 million page views in 30 days). However, as with many social media platforms, CoveritLive provides an outlet for numerous individuals and small organizations to share a wide variety of real, [|virtual] and [|hybrid events]. The service crashed temporarily during 27 January 2010 due to a massive surge of interest in journalists' feeds using CoveritLive to report [|Steve Jobs] ' keynote at [|Apple] 's launch of its [|iPad] device. Online publications using CoveritLive for this event included //MacWorld// [|[4]] and //MacNN// [|[5]]. [|[4]] CoveritLive CEO Keith McSpurren said in February 2010 that CoveritLive is responsible for more than 82 million page views a month. [|[4]]