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Internet advertising stories: 67 news summaries

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Microsoft Rips Google Over
Ad Service Bid

Tech titans have different spins on DoubleClick deal

Sep 27, 07 7:30 PM CDT
(Newser) - A Senate antitrust panel heard testimony today on Google's proposed takeover of internet ad broker DoubleClick, the Wall Street Journal reports, including a not-so-friendly broadside from Microsoft, a snubbed DoubleClick suitor. Google's chief legal officer said the $3.1 billion deal wouldn't create an internet advertising monolith, as the companies... More »

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Google • Microsoft • DoubleClick • antitrust • Internet advertising

Microsoft Plots to Dent Google Ad Lead

Software company touting its new non-search model

Sep 26, 07 4:05 PM CDT
(Newser) - Microsoft wants to reinvent online advertising, replacing the dominant search engine model with a tracking system that would tell advertisers precisely which ads consumers had viewed before visiting their sites. The new model is the product of aQuantive, an internet ad firm purchased by Microsoft last month, whose main competitor... More »

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Google • Microsoft • DoubleClick • Internet advertising

Microsoft May Pump up to $500M Into Facebook

Bidding war with Google could net even more

Sep 24, 07 5:09 PM CDT
(Newser) - Facebook is in talks with Microsoft about a $300-500 million investment that could give the software company as much as a 5% ownership stake in the social networking site. The deal could boost Facebook's value over $10 billion, and help Microsoft challenge rival Google for Internet advertising cachet, the Wall ... More »

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Google • Microsoft • Facebook • Internet advertising

Free Phone Service Listens In, Tailors Ads

Startup sparks privacy concerns with marketing that draws on conversations

Sep 24, 07 12:42 PM CDT
(Newser) - In much the same way that Gmail scans emails to push relevant advertising, a California start-up is using voice-recognition software to translate the strategy to Internet phone calls. Puddingmedia offers free phone service if customers allow eavesdropping on their conversations, the AP reports. The data isn't recorded, but privacy advocates... More »

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technology • cell phones • online advertising • Skype • startup • eavesdropping • VOIP • Puddingmedia • Henry Blodget • Internet advertising • telephone

Yahoo Joins Forces With
UK Social-Networker Bebo

Net mainstay will bring advertising to Britain's top networking site

Sep 12, 07 2:38 PM CDT
(Newser) - Internet giant Yahoo and networking site Bebo will collaborate on advertising in the UK and Ireland, the Wall Street Journal reports. Bebo—launched in 2005— hasn't taken off in the US, but it's the top social-networking website in Britain. Yahoo will sell the bulk of Bebo's banner and video ads,... More »

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social networking • Yahoo • advertising • online advertising • Bebo • Internet advertising

Product Design Gets Wilder, Faster

Today it's round Kleenex boxes; tomorrow, talking ones

Aug 10, 07 2:55 PM CDT
(Newser) - Commercial product design is being overhauled faster and faster as brands compete in a fragmented market. The Internet and cable TV have diluted the effectiveness of advertising campaigns, and companies are spending more money on engaging design to win customers: Pepsi, for one, is rolling out a new can every... More »

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media • advertising • shopping • consumer • design • product design • Internet advertising

Big Guns Battle Video Sharing With Free TV Shows

Copyright-protected content will be available for free online in new NBC-News Corp. partnernship

Mar 23, 07 9:14 AM CDT
(Newser) - TV biggies NBC Universal and News Corp. are teaming up to hit YouTube with the full force of their their combined TV content, offered online for free. Starting this summer, AOL, Yahoo, Microsoft's MSN and News Corp. subsidiary MySpace will hope to win over internet users (and the advertising that... More »

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television • Yahoo • Google • Internet • YouTube • AOL • Microsoft • MSN • Rupert Murdoch • MySpace • Heroes • 24 • NBC • advertising • intellectual property • consumer • copyright • file sharing • Internet advertising • News Corp

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