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Microsoft to Acquire aQuantive, Inc. — Company details plans to build Internet-wide advertising platform for advertisers, publishers and ad agencies. — Microsoft Corp. today announced it will acquire aQuantive, Inc., for $66.50 per share in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately $6 billion.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Microsoft Pays $6 billion for aQuantive: Massive Ad Network Consolidation Is Occuring — Breaking: Microsoft is acquiring advertising network aQuantive, the parent company to Avenue A | Razorfish, Atlas and DRIVEpm, for roughly $6 billion in an all-cash transaction, the company said this morning.
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CNNMoney.com:
Microsoft buys aQuantive for $6 billion — In a move to strengthen its position against Google and Yahoo, software giant pays huge premium to buy into suddenly hot online advertising sector. — NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Microsoft announced Friday it is buying online ad agency aQuantive …
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Josee Rose / Wall Street Journal:
Microsoft to Pay About $6 Billion To Buy Ad Company aQuantive — Microsoft Corp. agreed to acquire aQuantive Inc. for $66.50 a share, in a deal valued at about $6 billion, as the software giant became the latest to buy an online advertising agency. — Microsoft's offer for aQuantive …
Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land:Microsoft Buys Online Marketing Firm aQuantive for $6 Billion
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Ryan Block / Engadget:
Regarding yesterday's Apple news — Yesterday Engadget posted an incorrect story about an iPhone delay, and I wanted to go into greater detail about how this happened. — At 9:09am CDT yesterday a number of Apple employees received an email that appeared to be from Apple corporate reporting …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
AppleGate — Ryan Block has formally responded to what is now being referred to as "AppleGate" in Silicon Valley. Yesterday Engadget posted that the iPhone was going to be delayed several months, relying on what turned out to be a bogus email for the story.
Bigvip / Gamerscore Blog:
Keeping Xbox LIVE Fair — One of the great things about LIVE and the unified community is that we work hard to create a level playing field for all gamers and have a no tolerance policy towards inappropriate behavior like hacking or cheating. As part of our commitment to our members …
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Xbox-Scene.com:
Microsoft Starts Banning 360s on LIVE - MS Confirms — >> With the amount of posts we see on our forums ... it's clear, Microsoft decided to start banning Xbox360 with modified firmwares today (both Hitachi-LG and Toshiba-Samsung drives). — While it's the same release date as Halo3 beta …
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
House Dems: broadband isn't broadband unless it's 2Mbps — Saying that the FCC "has not kept pace with the times or the technology," Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA) opened a hearing today into the FCC's methods for measuring broadband availability in the US. The US lags in speed, availability …
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BBC:
Yahoo 'censored' Flickr comments — Yahoo has been accused of censorship on its popular photo website Flickr, in a row that has highlighted the issue of copyright in the online age. — Earlier this month photographer Rebekka Gudleifsdóttir discovered that seven of her pictures …
MediaPost Publications:
WPP Buys 24/7 Real Media For $649 Million — ENDING WEEKS OF SPECULATION, WPP Group on Thursday announced plans to buy online ad company 24/7 Real Media for $649 million in cash. — WPP, the world's second-largest marketing services company, is paying $11.75 per share for the company …
BBC:
Global net censorship 'growing' — The level of state-led censorship of the net is growing around the world, a study of so-called internet filtering by the Open Net Initiative suggests. — The study of thousands of websites across 120 Internet Service Providers and found 25 …
Nik Cubrilovic / TechCrunch:
Microsoft Launches Popfly: Mashup App Creator Built On Silverlight — Microsoft will announce the private beta launch of Popfly this morning, a new Silverlight application that allows users to create mashups, widgets and other applications using a very cool and easy to use web-based graphical interface.
Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
TalentSpring Aims To Disrupt Resume Marketplace — Seattle based TalentSpring launches today with a unique product that has the potential to disrupt the online resume marketplace. — Headed by former Windows Live Development Leader Bryan Starbuck and Andrew Boardman …
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer
