Last week I spoke to Richard Dalton from Newsday and gave him my thoughts on Microsoft and Yahoo coming together for a story he was doing. The article ran in today's paper and can be seen here. Here are my thoughts from the piece: Chris Winfield, president of 10e20, an Internet marketing company… [read more]
Sexy start-ups seem to love Microsoft lately. At least that's the way it seems on the heels of the latest report that Microsoft has signed an agreement to sell advertisements from outside the U.S. on Facebook and will acquire a minority stake in the company. Seemingly as important as actually inking… [read more]
Microsoft has approached Facebook in recent weeks and the two companies are in talks about Microsoft making an investment in the social-networking startup. Microsoft's investment would give them up to 5% in the company and that would value Facebook at $10 billion or more according to a report in The… [read more]
In a move that is sure to raise a lot of eyebrows around Diggnation, social news network giant Digg has just announced that they are going to be ditching Google and moving to Microsoft to serve ads on the site. Digg co-founder Kevin Rose on the Digg blog: Hey everyone – I wanted to give you a… [read more]
Yesterday I spoke to Pete Barlas from Investor's Business Daily (regarding Microsoft's recent acquisition of online ad firm aQuantive for $6 Billion) and my quick thoughts are in today's paper: ....just Thursday, ad agency WPP Group agreed to buy 24/7 Media, another ad services company, for $650 million.… [read more]
Yesterday I spoke with Jeff Graham from USA Today and I am quoted in his story about the alleged Microsoft and Yahoo deal. Could a potential Microsoft/Yahoo deal solve the freefall? Short answer: no. Long answer: Internet analysts say it couldn't hurt. "Overnight, MSN and Yahoo's market share doubles,"… [read more]
Rumor has it that Google Analytics is getting competition: its rival, Microsoft, is working on an analytics platform called Gatineau (for now). You can't log in just yet -- well, you can, but it will log you out. Here's a sneak peek of the welcome screen: If this truly will be Google Analytics's… [read more]
