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Friday, June 20th, 2008Microsoft is going after the $70 billion spent on TV ads every year. This morning it announced that it will acquire Navic Networks, a company based in Waltham, Massachusetts that delivers interactive ads across cable TV networks.
The price was not disclosed, but a source close to the company pegs it at between $200 million [...]
Will 2008 Be Google’s End Of Innocence?
Friday, June 20th, 20082008 may be the year that Google’s innocence ends, as media and governments start to cast a less forgiving eye at the behavior of the company that controls 60% of the search market and perhaps as much as half of all online advertising revenue.
In 2007 the Federal Trade Commission opened an antitrust investigation into Google’s [...]
Confirmed: Yahoo’s Jeff Weiner To Split Time at Accel And Greylock
Friday, June 20th, 2008Jeff Weiner, the executive VP in charge of Yahoo’s network division (which includes the portal, search, media, and communications products) is officially leaving.
The news, which already leaked last week, is that Weiner will become an executive in residence at both Accel Partners and Greylock Partners. He will advise portfolio companies for both firms, and help [...]
Sue Decker’s Email To Yahoo Employees On Weiner’s Departure
Friday, June 20th, 2008The news is now official - Yahoo’s EVP Jeff Weiner has officially bailed. President Sue Decker addresses the troops in an all hands email, below. These types of emails leak regularly, of course (I actually think companies would be disappointed if they didn’t), so they tend to read like a press release.
Nevertheless, it is amazing [...]
Yahoo’s First Search Gallery Apps Leaves You Searching For The Right Results
Friday, June 20th, 2008I want to love the search apps in Yahoo’s newly opened Search Gallery. I really do. Opening up its search engine to outside developers is an idea worth applauding (although it could still do more). That’s why I was excited when Yahoo announced its SearchMonkey platform, which essentially allows outside developers to create their own [...]
Microsoft Pitches New Ad Measurement Metric
Friday, February 29th, 2008As it moves to better compete with Google in online advertising, Microsoft is aiming to increase its appeal to marketers with a new way of tracking Web ad campaigns’ performance and return on investment (ROI). The company’s new “Engagement ROI” measurement — which is being baked into its Atlas Media Console campaign management tool [...]
Shareholders Blast Yahoo Over Microsoft Bid
Friday, February 29th, 2008In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission yesterday, Yahoo said that seven shareholder groups have filed lawsuits against the company’s board of directors since Microsoft announced its unsolicited bid to take over the company.
The class action lawsuits charge that Yahoo’s board has breached its fiduciary duty to the shareholders in its response to [...]
Google Apps
Friday, February 29th, 2008Google has just released a new product called Google Sites, and you can start using it today!
What is Google Sites?
It’s an online application that makes creating a team web site as easy as editing a document. You can quickly gather a variety of information in one place — including videos, calendars, [...]
Eurekster Debuts Improved Swicki Results Pages
Thursday, February 28th, 2008Site-specific search provider Eurekster is today releasing a new version of its Swicki product that features a set community features on its results and home pages.
The free Swicki search widget, used here on TechCrunch in the right-hand column, provides a cloud of popular search terms and leads to a page with results voted on by [...]
Yahoo Can’t Find the Pirate Bay
Wednesday, February 20th, 2008A search for “pirate bay” on Yahoo no longer turns up a link to the controversial BitTorrent search engine. It appears that Yahoo has decided to filter the site from its search results. Clear references to the site appear in Yahoo’s drop-down search assistant, but when you click on those, you still don’t get [...]
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