Big news from Yahoo! today. The online giant scooped up Musicmatch, the music download service, for $160 million in cash.

It's all over the business pages today. WPP Group, the big, bad British holding company acquired U.S.-based Grey Global for $1.3 billion in a combination cash and stock deal.

The first annual Advertising Week in New York City starts Sept. 20. There are tons of events, and at least some of them are sponsored by MediaPost and our partners. We want you to know about them, in case you don't already.

Corzen, a provider of market research and intelligence, today reports that revenues for the top three online job boards rose 38 percent in the second quarter, versus the same period a year ago. During the second quarter of 2003, print recruitment advertising in newspapers increased just 20 percent, according to Newspaper Association of America estimates.

One guy handles client negotiations and billings. Another serves as the creative czar, and a third manages client interactions and accounts.

Welcome to the post-Labor Day, back-to-work, and school syndrome.

It's no secret that instant messaging via PCs, mobile phones, and wireless devices like the BlackBerry, is wildly popular and extremely helpful in expediting both work and play.

Earlier this week, a Web developer who works for Friendster got fired for mentioning Friendster in her blog, Troutgirl. Joyce Park tells CNET that she'd only mentioned the social networking site in three postings to her blog. All three references included information already in the public domain.

Hitwise today reported that traffic to the Bush and Kerry Web sites is spiking in key states with big blocks of undecided voters. These states include Ohio, Oregon, West Virginia, and Wisconsin.