AOL to buy Advertising.com for $435 million

Grok Headline matches for AOL to buy Advertising.com for $435 million

AOL Buys Advertising.com for $435
Million (AP)

AOL Buys Advertising.com for $435
Million (AP) 06/24/2004 04:14 PM
AP - Internet giant America Online Inc. is making its first major acquisition in several years, buying Advertising.com Inc. for $435 million in cash, the companies announced Thursday.

AOL Buys Advertising.com for $435
Million

AOL Buys Advertising.com for $435
Million 06/24/2004 07:49 PM
The Internet giant is making its first major acquisition in several years, a move its chief executive said indicates that "online advertising is back."

AOL to pay 435 million dollars for
Advertising.com (AFP)

AOL to pay 435 million dollars for
Advertising.com (AFP) 06/25/2004 08:57 AM
AFP - Time Warner's America Online unit said it would pay 435 million dollars in cash to acquire Advertising.com, a privately held supplier of interactive marketing services.

AOL Buys Advertising.com for $435
Million (Reuters)

AOL Buys Advertising.com for $435
Million (Reuters) 06/24/2004 09:47 AM
Reuters - AOL, the world's largest Internet service provider, has agreed to buy online marketing firm Advertising.com for $435 million in a vote of confidence for the online advertising business, AOL said on Thursday.

America Online plans buyout of
Advertising.com for $435 million

America Online plans buyout of
Advertising.com for $435 million 06/26/2004 04:44 AM
Dfw.com - Sat Jun 26, 04:09 am GMT

America Online buying marketing services
provider Advertising.com for $435
million

America Online buying marketing services
provider Advertising.com for $435
million 06/25/2004 05:47 AM
Thedailycamera.com - Fri Jun 25, 09:27 am GMT

The US Interactive Advertising Bureau
(IAB) said on Monday that Internet
advertising totaled nearly 2.3 billio

The US Interactive Advertising Bureau
(IAB) said on Monday that Internet
advertising totaled nearly 2.3 billio 05/24/2004 09:51 PM
Xinhua News Agency May 25 2004 2:04AM GMT

The New York Times > Business >
Media & Advertising > Advertising:
Like Apple, TiVo Faces a Struggle in a
Market It Helped Create

The New York Times > Business >
Media & Advertising > Advertising:
Like Apple, TiVo Faces a Struggle in a
Market It Helped Create 08/10/2004 12:32 PM
NY Times compares TiVo to Apple, saying it faces a struggle in a market it helped create

nytimes.com/2004/08/09/business/media/09tivo.html?ex=12497904 00&en=151debd59cf4bf02&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland
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Newspaperadvertising.com, Print
Advertising Information Website,
Celebrates One-Year Anniversary and
Invites Advertising Experts to Submit
Articles

Newspaperadvertising.com, Print
Advertising Information Website,
Celebrates One-Year Anniversary and
Invites Advertising Experts to Submit
Articles 03/25/2005 06:38 AM
Newspaperadvertising.com, newspaper advertising and magazine advertising Information website, celebrates one-year anniversary and invites advertising experts to submit articles - developed by Mediabids.com [PRWEB Mar 25, 2005]

Mediabids, the Only Online Print Ad
Space Marketplace, Saves Client, Garden
Bridges 50 Percent On Magazine
Advertising and Newspaper Advertising
Costs

Mediabids, the Only Online Print Ad
Space Marketplace, Saves Client, Garden
Bridges 50 Percent On Magazine
Advertising and Newspaper Advertising
Costs 03/28/2005 03:27 AM
Online Media marketplace www.mediabids.com saves client over 50 percent on print advertising costs [PRWEB Mar 28, 2005]

Lake Group Media Announces Mobile
Advertising Network - Provides Marketers
New Mobile Advertising Opportunities on
Opt-In Text Messages

Lake Group Media Announces Mobile
Advertising Network - Provides Marketers
New Mobile Advertising Opportunities on
Opt-In Text Messages 02/01/2005 09:13 PM
SMS Advertising is now available through Lake Group Media's SMS Mobile Advertising Network, created in conjunction with SMS platform and technology developer SMS Media Group. Lake Group Media's Mobile Ad Network is 100% confirmed opt-in. Ads appear with requested SMS messages. Inventory of 10MM+ mobile messages per month available! [PRWEB Jan 19, 2005]

Contextual Advertising And Search
Advertising Are Different

Contextual Advertising And Search
Advertising Are Different 08/03/2004 12:32 PM
Apparently, marketers are just now figuring out that browsing and searching are two different modes of web surfing, and people will t reat ads differently in each situation. Some pointed this out quit e a while ago, but thanks to Google and Overture promoting contextually matched ads as somehow being just like search ads, many advertisers expected similar results -- which they're not getting at all. So, now, some advertisers seem to be fighting back and are telling Google and Overture that it's about time they separated out the two forms of advertising and let the advertisers work each campaign separately. It appears that Overture has started to move in this direction, but Google continues to insist that there's no reason to treat the ads differently.

Yahoo! co-founder prepares to sell eight
million shares worth $245 million US

Yahoo! co-founder prepares to sell eight
million shares worth $245 million US 05/28/2004 09:26 PM
Financial Post May 29 2004 1:40AM GMT

News: Apple reports $290 million profit;
5.3 million iPods ship

News: Apple reports $290 million profit;
5.3 million iPods ship 04/13/2005 05:08 PM
Apple Computer on Wednesday reported a profit of US$290 million for the fiscal second-quarter of 2005. The company said that 1,070,000 Macintosh units and 5,311,000 iPods were shipped during the quarter, which ended March 26, 2005. This represents a 43 percent increase in CPU units and a 558 percent increase in iPods over the year-ago quarter.

Bioniche quarterly loss deepens to $2.2
million; sales flat at $13.5 million

Bioniche quarterly loss deepens to $2.2
million; sales flat at $13.5 million 02/14/2004 10:52 AM
Canadian Press Feb 14 2004 2:11PM GMT

SpareBank 1 Midt-Norge recorded a
post-tax net profit of NOK 430 million
(NOK 222 million) in 2004, equivalent

SpareBank 1 Midt-Norge recorded a
post-tax net profit of NOK 430 million
(NOK 222 million) in 2004, equivalent 02/01/2005 09:22 PM
mbl.is Feb 1 2005 11:53AM GMT

German Domain Purchased for 31 Million
Pounds (aprox $57 million usd)

German Domain Purchased for 31 Million
Pounds (aprox $57 million usd) 07/01/2004 10:33 AM
"According to today's London Evening Standard, Lastminute.com bought the Lastminute.de domain name for 31 Million UK pounds sterling, although this did include the existing lastminute.de business"

Isacsoft raising $7 million with sale of
15.6 million share units

Isacsoft raising $7 million with sale of
15.6 million share units 04/13/2004 12:39 PM
Canadian Press via Canada.com Apr 13 2004 5:04PM GMT

Wishlist: the million monkeys at a
million typewriters plugin | A Whole
Lotta Nothing

Wishlist: the million monkeys at a
million typewriters plugin | A Whole
Lotta Nothing 07/16/2004 11:53 AM
Wishlist: the million monkeys at a million typewriters plugin A Whole Lotta Nothing .. matt wants a public editing of blog posts .. a.wholelottanothing.org

a.wholelottanothing.org/archives.blah/007942
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Dalsa Corp. Q1 profit grows to $3.9
million, up from $2.4 million a year ago

Dalsa Corp. Q1 profit grows to $3.9
million, up from $2.4 million a year ago 05/01/2004 11:41 AM
Canadian Press May 1 2004 4:14PM GMT

Xbox Live Passes 1 Million
SubscribersMicrosoft's million-member
online gaming service reaches membership
mile

Xbox Live Passes 1 Million
SubscribersMicrosoft's million-member
online gaming service reaches membership
mile 07/15/2004 03:15 PM
Gigex Jul 15 2004 7:20PM GMT

Geac Computer's Q2 profit slips to $10.7
million US from $11.6 million US

Geac Computer's Q2 profit slips to $10.7
million US from $11.6 million US 12/06/2003 09:45 AM
Canadian Press Dec 6 2003 9:11AM ET

Wishlist: the million monkeys at a
million typewriters plugin

Wishlist: the million monkeys at a
million typewriters plugin 07/15/2004 06:45 PM

Today as I sent an IM to a friend correcting a their/there/they're use in a blog post, it reminded me that I should post a lazyweb request for an MT plugin I've always wanted.

I want a MT plugin that will let a select group of my closest, most trusted friends correct typos in text and URLs on my blog posts and republish their changes without my intervention. If I'm gone for a couple days and improperly used your when I meant you're, I'd love it if a friend fixed that while I was away. I first got the idea when I was trying to think of ways to make Orkut or Friendster useful. If there was some API to those apps that let MT know if someone was a best friend or life partner-level connection, they could be granted temporary edit rights on my blog (maybe Flickr's API could let this work for people I designate as a friend and family member, which seems to be the closest form of relationship there).

Ideally, I'd like an easy way to say that 4 or 5 people I trust could make edits. And I suppose the edits should be checked before and after, with a certain byte count limit, lest you allow your friends to completely rewrite your post. An email telling me what took place would be nice, but I'd like my friends to go ahead and save their changes, with a way for me to rescue the earlier pre-edit entry just in case.

Actually, maybe it wouldn't be such a bad idea to allow anyone to suggest an edit on the post, sending me an email, with a one-click way to approve or disapprove it. Maybe after a random stranger has properly corrected me half a dozen times, I could elevate their status to having republish rights on the edits so I wouldn't have to approve them anymore.

A plugin like this would basically wiki-ize the weblog world, allowing readers to participate and correct small mistakes. I often write in margins of books and email authors all the little typos I found while reading their novel, but this would put that kind of power right into anyone's hands. In the world of programming they say "given a million eyeballs, all bugs are shallow" and maybe in this case, given a million editors, all typos will be fixed.

It can't be impossible to make this happen, right?

One Million Distinct Tags, 14 Million
Tagged Posts

One Million Distinct Tags, 14 Million
Tagged Posts 06/05/2005 11:41 PM
This weekend, Technorati reached another milestone, our millionth indexed tag. It amazes me that since we launched our service to track tags on blog posts on January 17th of this year, there has been an explosion in the use...

Labopharm Inc.'s Q1 loss eases to $7.6
million from last year's $7.8 million

Labopharm Inc.'s Q1 loss eases to $7.6
million from last year's $7.8 million 05/10/2004 11:39 AM
National Post May 10 2004 3:31PM GMT

WebSideStory cuts IPO to 4.4 million
shares from 5 million

WebSideStory cuts IPO to 4.4 million
shares from 5 million 09/17/2004 01:56 PM
SiliconValley.com Sep 17 2004 5:04PM GMT

Infowave Increases $6.5-Million
Financing to $8-Million

Infowave Increases $6.5-Million
Financing to $8-Million 02/18/2004 04:06 PM
BC Technology Feb 18 2004 8:08PM GMT

Research and Markets: Global Service
Provider Voice Over Internet Protocol
(VoIP) Gateway Market at $165.3 Million
in 2003 is Expected to Reach $985.7
Million in 2009

Research and Markets: Global Service
Provider Voice Over Internet Protocol
(VoIP) Gateway Market at $165.3 Million
in 2003 is Expected to Reach $985.7
Million in 2009 04/19/2005 03:49 AM
Research and Markets (researchandmarkets.com/reports/c15868) has announced the addition of Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP) Market Opportunities, Strategies, and Forecasts, 2004 to 2009 to their offering. [PRWEB Apr 19, 2005]

Genesis Technology Group Acquires
Controlling Interest in Computer
Hardware Wholesaler With 22 Years of
International Experience "Could Achieve
$10-15 Million in Sales and $0.5-1
Million in Net Income."

Genesis Technology Group Acquires
Controlling Interest in Computer
Hardware Wholesaler With 22 Years of
International Experience "Could Achieve
$10-15 Million in Sales and $0.5-1
Million in Net Income." 09/23/2004 02:29 AM
[PRWEB Sep 23, 2004]

In the first quarter of 2004, Taiwanese
cable modem shipment grew by 4.9% to
reach 2.3 million units, while shipment
value increased by 13.2%, reaching
US$76.3 million

In the first quarter of 2004, Taiwanese
cable modem shipment grew by 4.9% to
reach 2.3 million units, while shipment
value increased by 13.2%, reaching
US$76.3 million 06/25/2004 02:00 AM
Research and Markets are delighted to announce the addition of The Taiwanese Cable Modem Industry, 1Q 2004 and Beyond to their offering [PRWEB Jun 25, 2004]

1 Million Downloads, 1 Million Songs

1 Million Downloads, 1 Million Songs 10/28/2003 11:09 PM
Apple has announced that over 1 million copies of iTunes for Windows have been downloaded since its release on Thursday. In addition, over 1 million songs have been purchased from the iTunes Music Store in the same 3 1/2 day period. In a press release, Steve Jobs said, "We're off to a great start, and our competition isn't even out of the starting gates yet."

WebSideStory IPO cut to 4.4 million
shares from 5 million

WebSideStory IPO cut to 4.4 million
shares from 5 million 09/17/2004 02:18 PM
San Jose Mercury News Sep 17 2004 6:18PM GMT

U.S. shipments of mobile handsets that
support Java or BREW device middleware
will grow from 62 million in 2004 to
just over100 million of all handsets
that ship, in 2009

U.S. shipments of mobile handsets that
support Java or BREW device middleware
will grow from 62 million in 2004 to
just over100 million of all handsets
that ship, in 2009 06/17/2004 03:45 AM
[PRWEB Jun 17, 2004]

Microsoft reaches $34 million settlement
of Massachusetts antitrust lawsuit; $9
million settlement in North Da

Microsoft reaches $34 million settlement
of Massachusetts antitrust lawsuit; $9
million settlement in North Da 06/30/2004 11:16 AM
CRM Assist Jun 30 2004 3:04PM GMT

"Today's Washington Post poll finds that
after spending fifty million dollars in
five weeks on attack ads, Bush has
gained four points on Kerry. His
approval rating is 51%. Would that the
rest of his $200 million give him this
kind of return."

"Today's Washington Post poll finds that
after spending fifty million dollars in
five weeks on attack ads, Bush has
gained four points on Kerry. His
approval rating is 51%. Would that the
rest of his $200 million give him this
kind of return." 04/20/2004 03:29 PM

Bush's Campaign Has An E-Mail List
Totaling 6 Million People, 10 Times The
Number That Democratic Presidential
Candidate Howard Dean Has, And The Bush
Operation Is In The Middle Of An
Unprecedented Drive To Register 3
Million New Republican Voters

Bush's Campaign Has An E-Mail List
Totaling 6 Million People, 10 Times The
Number That Democratic Presidential
Candidate Howard Dean Has, And The Bush
Operation Is In The Middle Of An
Unprecedented Drive To Register 3
Million New Republican Voters 12/02/2003 01:54 AM

washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A20936-2003Nov29?language=printer
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In the first quarter of 2004 shipment
volume of the Taiwanese DSL industry
grew 29.8% sequentially to reach 7.9
million ports, while shipment value rose
60.9% to reach US$230 million

In the first quarter of 2004 shipment
volume of the Taiwanese DSL industry
grew 29.8% sequentially to reach 7.9
million ports, while shipment value rose
60.9% to reach US$230 million 06/23/2004 02:36 AM
Research and Markets are delighted to announce the addition of The Taiwanese DSL Industry, 1Q 2004 and Beyond to their offering [PRWEB Jun 23, 2004]

Advertising

Advertising 03/11/2003 09:44 AM
I’ve been thinking about advertising recently. So when PerversionTracker, one of my favorite sites, posted their advertising offer, I jumped on it.

If you look at the bottom of the review for Xupport 1.2.7, you’ll see a little text ad for NetNewsWire. I tried to come up with a slogan that would fit in with the site.

NetNewsWire: It’s Not Metal™

So, anyway, I was wondering about how advertising is changing in the weblog age.

One thing that’s important to me is that ads should be clearly marked as ads. (And my ad on PerversionTracker is clearly marked.)

But what do you think of the whole topic?

When a software vendor has a little extra money to spend on advertising, what’s cool to do and what’s not cool to do?

Is it a good idea for software vendors to spend at least a little money on the weblogs and news sites in their ecosystem?

I’m not about to go on a spending spree. But it’s not too early to start thinking about these things.

MSN to end pop-up advertising?

MSN to end pop-up advertising? 02/16/2004 09:14 PM
Microsoft says its online service will soon stop accepting pop-up and pop-under ads.
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AOL to buy Advertising.com for $435 million

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