Friday, December 14, 2007

Banner advertising - Google’s 10th year of life poses major strategic challenges

Network World Fusion - Goal No. 1, though, is fending off a variety of potential challenges that might disrupt its dominant position in the online advertising marketplace, says Karsten Weide, director of IDC's digital media and entertainment program. "Google's top priority Further info..

Computerworld Singapore - Two privacy groups want the chairwoman of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Deborah Platt Majoras, to recuse herself from a review of Google Inc.'s US$3.1 billion acquisition of online advertising company DoubleClick Inc.. On Wednesday, the Further info..

MSN UK News - The group bought a 1.6% stake in social networking site Facebook for 240 million US dollars (£117m) in October, just months after making its biggest acquisition yet, with the six billion US dollar (£2.9bn) purchase of US online advertising firm Further info..

Wall Street Journal - WASHINGTON -- A senior Republican lawmaker, in a letter to Google Inc. Chief Executive Eric Schmidt, expressed his concerns about privacy aspects of the company's proposed takeover of online advertising broker DoubleClick, and demanded answers to a Further info..