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The Wall Street JournalJust An Online Minute... Another Wrinkle In MicroHoo Fracas: YaGoogle?Just An Online Minute, Wendy Davis - Thursday, April 10, 2008
From the moment Microsoft went public with its $31 a share bid for Yahoo on Feb. 1, it was obvious the online ad industry was about to undergo a maj ...
Yahoo's Dance Card Continues To Fill With SuitorsOnline Media Daily, Tanya Gazdik - Thursday, April 10, 2008
Yahoo and Time Warner Inc.'s AOL are negotiating to combine their Internet operations, a move aimed at thwarting Microsoft's overtures to Yahoo, according to an unnamed source cited by T ...
Take That, Microsoft: Yahoo Begins Trial Of Google Service Online Media Daily, Mark Walsh - Thursday, April 10, 2008
[Search] In the latest twist in its ongoing takeover battle with Microsoft, Yahoo said Wednesday it will begin a test running Google ads alongside Yahoo's own search results. The two-we ...
AOL: Running Out Of Time Around the Net In Online Marketing, Ross Fadner - Wednesday, April 9, 2008
How much longer does AOL have to prove its worth before Time Warner shareholders revolt? Not long, says Jordon Posner of Matrix Asset Advisors. "It's important that they drive improveme ...
Is Microsoft Really Undervaluing Yahoo? Around the Net In Online Marketing, Ross Fadner - Wednesday, April 9, 2008
Yahoo thinks Microsoft is undervaluing the company with its $44.6 billion offer, but Microsoft, citing the $10 boost Yahoo shares received the day the software giant took its bid ...
Google, Microsoft And The Long, Slow KillAround the Net In Online Marketing, Ross Fadner - Wednesday, April 9, 2008
Microsoft better watch out, because Google is moving in for the long, slow kill. With a growing arsenal of Web-based services that includes Google Docs and now, Google App Engin ...
Microsoft-Yahoo's Bigger Problem: Avoiding the Time Warner-AOL TrapOn Media, Diane Mermigas - Tuesday, April 8, 2008
Microsoft's hostile takeover of Yahoo has the potential to be the next decade's equivalent of the Time Warner-AOL merger. It is based on similarly formidable assumptions and issues, such ...
Yahoo Digs In, Again Rejects Microsoft OfferOnline Media Daily, Mark Walsh - Tuesday, April 8, 2008
Ratcheting up the tension in its takeover battle with Microsoft, Yahoo again rejected the software giant's acquisition offer Monday as too low. Yahoo reiterated its position that Microsoft's unsolicited off ...
Critics Ask Senate Panel To Probe Google-DoubleClick MergerOnline Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, April 8, 2008
The Federal Trade Commission approved Google's merger with DoubleClick late last year, but critics of the deal continue to press their case that the acquisition should have been blocked. ...
LBI Acquires Special Ops MediaOnline Media Daily, Gavin O'Malley - Tuesday, April 8, 2008
Further strengthening its U.S. position, European digital agency LBI International has acquired New York-based digital marketing and design shop Special Ops Media. LBI, which already owns New York interactive sho ...
Microsoft Sets April 26th Deadline For Yahoo Merger Online Media Daily, Tanya Gazdik - Monday, April 7, 2008
Microsoft on Saturday gave Yahoo three weeks (until April 26) to engage in merger negotiations and reach a deal--otherwise the company will reduce its $44.6 billion unsolicited offer and unse ...
Google To Sell Performics, Eyes Expedia And Skype Online Media Daily, Tameka Kee - Thursday, April 3, 2008
[Search] Putting questions about possible conflicts of interest to rest, Google announced Wednesday it will sell search marketing and optimization firm Performics, which it acquired as part of DoubleClick. Meanwhil ...
Google Eyeing EBay's Skype Around the Net In Online Marketing, Ross Fadner - Wednesday, April 2, 2008
Something big is afoot between Google and eBay's Skype, like a partnership or outright acquisition. There've been rumblings of a deal now for several weeks. Google's Product Management team h ...
Despite Economy, M&A Activity ThrivesMediaDailyNews, Erik Sass - Wednesday, April 2, 2008
Mergers and acquisitions proceeded at a healthy clip in the first quarter of 2008--even with the economy looking shaky, according to figures from the Jordan, Edmiston Group, Inc., an investme ...
Microsoft Not Budging On Yahoo Bid Around the Net In Online Marketing, Ross Fadner - Tuesday, April 1, 2008
Rumblings in the blogosphere yesterday suggested that Microsoft was preparing to up its $31 per share offer for Yahoo, but Microsoft sources on Tuesday said there are no plans ...
Let's Make A Deal--Or Else?! On Media, Diane Mermigas - Tuesday, April 1, 2008
Many deal-makers appear to have traded their risk-taking sensibilities for bullying tactics in these opportunistic hard times, enough to prompt the question: Is this any way to do media de ...
Glam Media Quietly Scoops Up StyleMobOnline Media Daily, Gavin O'Malley - Friday, March 28, 2008
[Online Publishing] Fashion and shopping e-publisher Glam Media quietly bought the street-fashion social media site StyleMob earlier this month. Last month, Glam raised another $84.6 million in financing, a porti ...
