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Terry Semel / Yodel Anecdotal:
Democracy and the online ad — Tonight we're announcing the acquisition of Right Media, which I believe has the potential to dramatically enhance Internet advertising. We hope to revolutionize the way ads are bought and sold on the Internet and, in turn, drive more value for advertisers, publishers, and partners.
Discussion:
Google Watch, Joe Duck, Screenwerk, Media Biz, John Battelle's Searchblog, Business 2.0 Beta, Getting Granular and Threadwatch.org
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Business Wire:
Yahoo! Announces Agreement to Acquire Right Media, Largest Emerging Online Advertising Exchange — Key Step in Executing Yahoo!'s Long-Term Strategy to Transform How Online Advertisers Connect to and Engage With Their Customers - Both On and Off the Yahoo! Network
Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Yahoo answers GoogleClick, buys Right Media for $680M — Yahoo has acquired online ad exchange company, Right Media, for $680 million, a move that shows Yahoo is not resting in the wake of Google's purchase of banner ad company Doubleclick earlier this month. — The WSJ reported the story just now.
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Yahoo To Acquire Right Media; Joins Google In Buying, Rather Than Building, Display Ad Network — Yahoo has announced it will acquire Right Media, which operates an auction-based display ad exchange called Remix Media. The move is widely seen as Yahoo fighting back against Google's recent plans …
Michael Walrath / Right Media Blog:One Giant Leap for the Exchange, and for Interactive Advertising
BBC:
BBC gets TV on-demand service OK — BBC shows such as Doctor Who and EastEnders are to be made available on-demand after the BBC's iPlayer service was given the green light. — The service - which will launch later this year - allows viewers to watch programmes online for seven days after their first TV broadcast.
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Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Yahoo loses VP of consumer search, to Accel Partners — Yahoo, the Sunnyvale search engine trying to stem shrinkage of its market share in search, has lost a key search executive to a venture capital firm. — Andrew Braccia quietly quit as Yahoo's vice president of consumer web search earlier this month …
Frank De Maria / Text Analytics Solutions …:
REUTERS ADVANCES DEVELOPMENT OF SEARCH CAPABILITY WITH THE ACQUISITION OF CLEARFOREST — Deal will help develop Reuters advanced search backbone — Reuters (LSE: RTR; NASDAQ: RTRSY), the global information company, has entered into an agreement to acquire all of the outstanding shares of ClearForest Ltd. …
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BBC:
Apple admits laptop battery issue — Apple has said that "some batteries" in its range of MacBook and MacBook Pro laptops have "performance issues". — The company has issued a software update to fix the issue and has offered to replace defective batteries.
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The Apple Core
Martin LaMonica / CNET News.com:
Microsoft opens up on Web strategy at Mix07 — Microsoft's strategy in the new world of ad-supported online software is, in some ways, business as usual: use aggressive business terms to undercut rivals, and cozy up to developers. — At the company's Mix07 conference in Las Vegas on Monday …
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Webware.com, Dana Gardner's BriefingsDirect, Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog and down the avenue
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
eBay Launches "ToGo" Widgets For Any Listing — As you can see with the embedded Flash widget above, eBay is now letting users embed information about any listing or group of listings directly into a website. Their hope is to encourage bloggers and social network users who discuss famous listings …
Elizabeth Olson / New York Times:
A Virtual Ad Agency for Online Radio — AS more people listen to the radio over the Internet, radio stations have been looking to generate new advertising revenue from the medium. A start-up company, TargetSpot, is trying to turn this nascent field into a viable business, and CBS Radio is its first customer.
Discussion:
Startup Meme, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, Screenwerk and Media 3.0 with Shelly Palmer
Nadia Cameron / InfoWorld:
Dell looks beyond direct model — In leaked internal memo, Dell CEO admits for the first time he has an interest in developing an indirect channel — Dell CEO Michael Dell has dropped his biggest hint yet that the PC vendor is looking at an indirect channel.
Shuman Ghosemajumder / shumans.com:
Advertiser Requests on Invalid Clicks — The Click Quality Council is a group of advertisers which meets regularly to discuss click fraud. A few days ago they came out with their "Cornerstone Principles for Pay-Per-Click Quality Improvement" - eight requests from advertisers …
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Search Engine Land
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Tim O'Reilly / O'Reilly Radar:
We'd Love To Hear Your S3 Stories...And Numbers — SmugMug has told the world how much money they've saved using S3, and at the Web 2.0 Expo, Jeff Bezos told us how his aerospace company, Blue Origin spent only $304 using S3 to deliver half a million copies of the video of their test launch.
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Venture Chronicles
Miguel Helft / New York Times:
Google Seeks Clearer Path to State Data — Four states have joined forces with Google to make information from their Web sites more directly accessible through Internet searches. — Much of the public data on government Web sites — things like school rankings, contractor and real estate licenses …
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Verizon's FiOS network: Payback time? — Verizon reported its first quarter results and they are notable for one key reason-most of the maximum capital spending for its FiOS fiber-optic network is through the pipeline. — Simply put, the earnings hit-11 cents a share in the first quarter …
