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We've officially acquired DoubleClick
via Official Google Blog by Karen on March 11, 2008
Posted by Eric Schmidt, Chairman and CEOI'm pleased to share the news that we completed our acquisition of DoubleClick today. Although it's been nearly a year since we announced our intention to acquire DoubleClick last April, we are no less excited today about the benefits that the combination of our two companies will bring to the online advertising market.Because we have been waiting...
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WOW. Microsoft Offers $44.6 Billion To Acquire Yahoo
via TechCrunch by Duncan Riley on February 01, 2008
It’s been rumored for a long time, but now it’s reality.Microsoft has made an unsolicited $44.6 billion bid for Yahoo. The bid, which would consist of cash and Microsoft stock, values Yahoo shares at $31 a share, a 62% premium on Thursdays closing price.Michael stated during his appearance on Fox Business this week that Yahoo could face a takeover by Microsoft as part of an ad play, and he...
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Zealous Autoconfig
via xkcd.com by (author unknown) on April 28, 2008
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Scoble Sells Out
via TechCrunch by Michael Arrington on January 25, 2008
... have been the main proponents of advertising-free blogs over the years, arguing that it creates conflicts that should be avoided. In 2005, when we first put ads on TechCrunch, Winer wrote a long comment expressing disappointment and regretting linking to the site, and followed up with a podcast on the issue. He’s been writing about this since at least 2000.This isn’t the first time Sco...
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Can Google Still Claim To Be David To Microsoft’s Goliath? No.
via TechCrunch by Michael Arrington on February 03, 2008
Google finally went on the recordtoday regarding the proposed Microsoft/Yahoo deal. In short, they don’t like the idea of Microsoft and Yahoo being one company. They think it raises “troubling questions” and threatens “the underlying principles of the Internet: openness and innovation.” Microsoft is also vilified as engaging in “inappropriate and illegal influence” and having...
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Yahoo Board To Determine Fate Of Company Today
via TechCrunch by Michael Arrington on February 08, 2008
Sources have indicated to us that Yahoo has scheduled a special board of directors meeting on Friday to determine, effectively, the fate of the company. After a week of hectic negotiating, it’s clear that no one is going to step in with a competing acquisition offer to what Microsoft put on the table last Friday - $31 per share. Softbank, the last real chance for a competing bid, bowed out...
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Google Gathers Social Graph Information From The Web, Launches API
via TechCrunch by Michael Arrington on February 01, 2008
Tens of millions of people have been busy the last few years building Facebook’s most valuable asset - their social graph. As people add friends, and those people add friends, Facebook gets to understand exactly how its users know each other. And as we saw with their “social ads platform,” where users essentially (and sometimes unwittingly) pimp services to each other, it’s not hard to...
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Ex-Googlers Launch Intsructional Video Site Howcast, Raise $8 Million A Round
via TechCrunch by Erick Schonfeld on February 06, 2008
A New York City startup called Howcast is launching today that wants to be the YouTube of instructional videos. In fact, the three founders—Jason Liebman, Daniel Blackman and Sanjay Raman—are ex-Google employees who worked on Google Video and YouTube before they left eight months ago. They actually are going for a little more polish than YouTube, trying to bring some production values to...
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The Idea Behind "Can Google Hear Me"
via Google Operating System by Ionut Alex Chitu on March 10, 2008
You might remember the crazy story behind CanGoogleHearMe.com: Aaron Stanton had a great idea he couldn't bring to life and he decided to pitch it to Google. Last year, he created a site to share his story and managed to convince Google to hear his idea. Since then, a lot of things have happened, other companies became interested in his project and he created a prototype, with a small team of...
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