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OK, it's not a huge revenue-generating battleground like Web search on a computer, but mobile advertising does offer some nice ancillary income and, if anything else, gives a maturing tech giant some street cred as still being the "cool kid on the block."That's part of the reason why it seems...
Posted on November 17, 2009 3:24 PM
Sprint Nextel Corp. (NYSE:S) has lost about 3 million customers so far this year, which is making its 4G WiMax investments in Clearwire Corp. (NASDAQ:CLWR) all that more important. Rivals Verizon Wireless and AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T) operate a larger 3G network and are adding customers in the millions per quarter....
Posted on November 10, 2009 4:22 PM
San Mateo, Calif.-based mobile phone advertising company AdMob Inc., which has a client list that includes Ford Motor Co. (NYSE:F) and Coca-Cola Co. (NYSE:KO), made itself a more attractive acquisition target when it acquired up-and-coming rival AdWhirl in August. And with the potential for growth in the mobile ad market,...
Posted on November 10, 2009 8:22 AM
Icahn has bid adieu to Yahoo!. Months after publicly battling management to sell the company to Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ:MSFT), billionaire activist investor Carl Icahn quietly announced his resignation from Yahoo! Inc.'s (NASDAQ:YHOO) board on Friday. The Deal Pipeline (subscription required) has more details on the Microsoft-Yahoo! search deal and earnings.Yahoo!...
Posted on October 26, 2009 10:04 AM
Therese Poletti had a nice piece on MarketWatch Tuesday that brings into sharper focus some things you pretty much knew about Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) but which nevertheless bear thinking about. Her theme is Apple's lack of interest in acquisitions above a small size, which has always been the case but...
Posted on October 7, 2009 11:08 AM
To start Tuesday, we see industrial conglomerate Emerson Electric Co. (NYSE:EMR) agreeing to acquire Avocent Corp. (NASDAQ:AVCT) for $1.2 billion in cash, enhancing its data center offering. This is in the wake of many announced technology deals as the economy seems more stable.But what about Internet M&A for the techies?Collins...
Posted on October 6, 2009 9:30 AM
Look to the right of this blog, and you'll see a Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) text-based ad. They're everywhere. And in search ads, Google is generating most of its sales -- tens of billions of dollars -- from them. To augment that business, the Web giant looked to display ads and...
Posted on September 18, 2009 10:00 AM
**Update - eBay has signed an agreement to sell most of Skype, valuing the business at $2.75 billion.From the eBay announcement: The buyer, who will control an approximately 65% stake, is an investor group led by Silver Lake and includes Index Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz and the Canada Pension Plan Investment...
Posted on September 1, 2009 10:00 AM
How do you make money showing a wildly popular video of lions getting punked by some buffalo? According to Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG), the trick is to anticipate which videos will go viral and then bring in advertisers before they do. Three years after paying $1.65 billion for YouTube Inc.,...
Posted on August 25, 2009 3:55 PM
It's finally happened. After all the rumors and haggling between Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) and Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ:MSFT), the two have come up with a 10-year Internet search deal. It's also good timing for Microsoft as it will host its annual analyst meeting on Thursday.In May, Yahoo! CEO Carol Bartz...
Posted on July 29, 2009 8:55 AM
Google's Chrome OS puts it in direct competition with Apple, making Google CEO Eric Schmidt's directorship of Apple -- already under FTC scrutiny -- even more questionable.
Posted on July 10, 2009 1:25 PM
In an unfortunate quirk of scheduling, two separate meetings of major import to the global economy are both happening on Wednesday, making it impossible for Corporate Dealmaker to offer an appropriate curtain-raiser for both. But rather than leaving readers completely dependent on CNBC, we offer this handy compare-and-contrast guide to...
Posted on July 8, 2009 10:48 AM
There were many events leading to Time Warner Inc.'s (NYSE:TWX) spinoff of Internet unit AOL LLC -- reversing a $180 billion merger -- and we've compiled quite a bit of info. It was three years ago former TW chief Richard Parsons thwarted activist investor Carl Icahn's bid to split off...
Posted on May 28, 2009 1:00 PM
Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) chief executive Carol Bartz, in a video interview with Tech Ticker, said the Internet giant is not a search company and would seek to monetize its 76% reach of the U.S. Internet audience by keeping users happy.In the eight-minute interview, Bartz lays out her strategic priorities:...
Posted on May 28, 2009 8:25 AM
At this week's All Things Digital conference, Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ:MSFT) is expected to announce a new search engine, dubbed Bing, and an ad campaign to go with it. Microsoft may also be positioning for a joint venture or acquisition; last week it registered a limited liability company in Delaware.Everyone knows...
Posted on May 26, 2009 5:35 PM
Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) has long said it needs to do more to tap into social networking. Chief technology officer Ari Balogh, at the the Reuters Global Technology Summit, said, "It's a good time to be buying now." Reuters noted that Balogh said Yahoo! has had conversations with companies about...
Posted on May 21, 2009 12:09 PM
As expected, Justice Department antitrust chief Christine Varney erased a policy the Bush administration set in place that made it difficult to pursue antitrust cases against big firms, such as Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ:MSFT) and Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG). Varney said in a statement that "the division will return to tried and...
Posted on May 11, 2009 4:17 PM
Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) CEO Eric Schmidt and former Genentech Inc. chief executive Arthur Levinson sit on the boards of both Google and Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL). According to The New York Times, that isn't sitting well with the Federal Trade Commission, who thinks it violates the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914,...
Posted on May 5, 2009 9:04 AM
News Corp.'s (NYSE:NWS) MySpace isn't the only social networking site hiring top managers. VentureBeat is reporting that its rival Facebook Inc. has hired Priti Choksi (pictured), a former Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) manager, to lead business development. At Google, Choksi most recently led distribution partnerships and previously was manager of strategic...
Posted on April 27, 2009 9:53 AM
Time Warner Inc. (NYSE:TWX) shook the head of its AOL LLC unit, replacing chairman and CEO Randy Falco and president and COO Ron Grant with nine-year Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) vet Tim Armstrong. In a statement, Web advertising expert Armstrong said, "AOL and Google have been partners for years and...
Posted on March 13, 2009 9:47 AM
It seems Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) CEO Eric Schmidt doesn't think the recession has hit hard enough ... yet. At a Morgan Stanley technology conference, Schmidt said that the Internet search giant has been inactive in M&A because, while it has capital available, it's waiting for prices to go lower.One report...
Posted on March 4, 2009 11:37 AM
Russia's decision to block a Walt Disney Co. joint venture just four months after denying Google Inc.'s bid for a Russian online advertising company could give pause to other U.S. firms looking to enter the market. In the latest case, the Federal Anti-monopoly Service of Russia denied Disney's planned joint...
Posted on February 23, 2009 12:40 PM
Time Warner Inc., which just reported a $16 billion quarterly loss, has to be frustrated with Internet media company AOL LLC, which reported a 23% drop in quarterly revenue and also announced layoffs. Sharing the frustration is Google Inc., which spent $1 billion on a 5% stake in AOL in...
Posted on February 4, 2009 2:59 PM
It was reported that Time Warner Inc.'s AOL LLC is cutting 10% of its ranks, or about 700 people. AOL CEO Randy Falco provided "some perspective" on that and other cost cutting decisions, while the company tries to grow its publishing, advertising and social media businesses. However, one in-depth...
Posted on January 28, 2009 4:54 PM
MySpace Inc., a unit of Fox Interactive Media Inc., is trying to joint venture its way past Facebook Inc. in the race to provide millions of users with a universal Web identity. By partnering with Google Inc., MySpace wants to create a more social Web, enabling its users to...
Posted on December 9, 2008 4:33 PM
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