Does AOL + Yahoo = A Weak Mess? by Laurie Sullivan

There are people who want badly to finance AOL CEO Tim Armstrong to buy Yahoo, Needham & Co. Analyst Laura Martin told OMMA Publish Entertainment conference attendees in Santa Monica on Tuesday. Leverage, however, is really difficult. Companies can't get more than five times their value. ...Read the whole story

  • Google ITA Acquisition Hit With Opposition From Travel Sites by Laurie Sullivan

    If a coalition of online travel sites formed Thursday get their way, they will block Google's proposed $700 million purchase of ITA Software, which provides flight data. The group claims it would give Google control over the software that powers most of its closest rivals in travel search, and could enable Google to manipulate and dominate the online air travel marketplace. ...Read the whole story

  • Canada's YPG Launches Digital Services Unit, Acquires Key Competencies by Gavin O'Malley

    Canada's Yellow Pages Group on Tuesday unveiled a new digital advertising and marketing unit named Mediative. "Mediative is the next step in YPG's digital growth strategy," Marc Tellier, president and CEO of Yellow Pages Group, said Tuesday. To strengthen its new unit, YPG on Tuesday announced the acquisition of search marketing company Enquiro; retail ad firm Ad Splash Media; and ad rep firm Uptrend Media. ...Read the whole story

  • Yahoo Set To Transition Mobile Search To Microsoft by Laurie Sullivan

    Yahoo Mobile search ads will transition to the Microsoft platform by the end of October as part of their broader search alliance according to a timeline the Sunnyvale, Calif. company published Wednesday. But some still don't understand the basic integration at all. ...Read the whole story

How to Think About Content Like A Forest, Not A Weed by Rob Garner

If there is one thing I've learned in the search biz, it's that quality wins for the long term; but even further along than that, a higher quantity of higher quality content is best. ...More

  • Comments From Google's Schmidt: Creepy Or True? by Kaila Colbin

    Yesterday, All Things D posted a list of creepy comments from Eric Schmidt, making the perhaps excessively harsh comment that Schmidt "has been happily high stepping across the creepy line like the grand marshal of the Tone-Deaf Technocrat Parade." First of all, we all know how I feel about comments taken out of context. Let he who is without sin cast the first stone, etc. But that perspective was referring to comments that are inherently objectionable -- calling your customers "stupid f***s" sounds bad no matter how you choose to interpret it. On the other hand, while Schmidt's comments may ...More