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Google's Decision to Get Into “Real Time” Ads Was Really Smart, Says Google
— Google makes almost all of its money selling search ads. But it is pushing hard into display ads, along with technology that lets marketers buy display ads in “real time.” Great idea, Google says.
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Decision Time For Facebook: Term Sheet Received At $2 Billion Valuation
— Facebook has been pitching for a new round of funding these last few months to bridge itself to an IPO sometime in the future. We've known that since October, when (former) CFO Gideon Yu was in Dubai.
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| Peter Kafka / Silicon Alley Insider: |
Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes: Some Kind Of AOL Decision “Soon” (TWX)
— Left unresolved after the conclusion of the Microsoft-Yahoo saga this summer: What's going to become of AOL, which has been talking to both Microsoft and Yahoo about a deal. We've heard that AOL employees are betting on a Microsoft combination.
| Kara Swisher / BoomTown: |
MicroHoo: Decision Time at 1 p.m. PDT Today?
— Memo to Yahoo from Microsoft: We will begin bombing in 30 minutes! — Whether it is love-bombing or the other kind, it's still a mystery to BoomTown. — But, according to sources close to Microsoft (MSFT), as early as today …
| Michael Arrington / TechCrunch: |
Decision Time For Yahoo
— The dust is settling on Microsoft's $31 per share offer to acquire Yahoo, and the options left open to the company are fairly well understood at this point. There will almost certainly be no White Knight or other buyout offer coming to the table - the sorry state of the debt markets is assuring that.
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Decision: Blogs vs. New York Times
— February 1st, 02008 by Alexander Rose — Long Bets has arrived at a decision for Long Bet #2 between blogger Dave Winer and Martin Nisenholtz of the NY Times. At stake is US$2000.00 plus half the interest that has accrued over the last 5 years in the Farsight Fund …
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Driving wheelchairs and computers with eye movements alone — Former NFL player Steve Gleason and Microsoft work to empower people with ALS.
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