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DeepMarket Stock Market Blog (Free subscription) | 06/12/2008
Seasonal Patterns found for the following stocks: aQuantive Inc. (AQNT) over the next 6 trading days. Look at the seasonal patterns for aQuantive Inc. in context. BankUnited Financial Corp. (BKUNA) over the next 10 trading days. Look at the seasonal patterns for BankUnited Financial Corp. in context. Charter Financial Corp. (CHFN) over the next 10 trading [...]
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AAPL - BloggingStocks (Free subscription) | 12/28/2007
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Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing (Free subscription) | 11/13/2007
The Internet Advertising Bureau announced today that Internet advertising revenues exceeded $5.2 billion for the third quarter of 2007, representing yet another historic high for a quarter and a $1.1 billion increase, or 25.3 percent, over Q3 2006. This is why Microsoft acquired aQuantive , an online advertising and marketing company, for approximately $6 Billion in cash. aQuantive is primarily known...
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The Next Big Thing (Free subscription) | 11/13/2007
The Internet Advertising Bureau announced today that Internet advertising revenues exceeded $5.2 billion for the third quarter of 2007, representing yet another historic high for a quarter and a $1.1 billion increase, or 25.3 percent, over Q3 2006. This is why Microsoft acquired aQuantive , an online advertising and marketing...
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Search Insider (Free subscription) | 11/09/2007
Everything we know about search is wrong. That's what Brian McAndrews is telling us. And Brian McAndrews isn't just anybody. He's the former CEO of aQuantive and is now a Microsoft senior vice president in charge of competing with other engines for ad dollars. So we should pay attention. McAndrews says search is given too much credit because of the way the effectiveness of ads is measured. When an...
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Lost Remote (Free subscription) | 11/07/2007
AOL is buying the ad serving company Quigo for $340 million to become more competitive against Yahoo! and Google. Following Google’s acquisition of DoubleClick and Microsoft picking up aQuantive, the M&A market for ad technology companies is where it is at. Just as we’ve been preaching at LostRemote forever, the ability to offer self-service advertising [...]
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Paidcontent (Free subscription) | 10/26/2007
Beyond its $6 billion acquisition of aQuantive, Microsoft ( NSDQ: MSFT ) spent $147 million on four small acquisitions during the quarter ending Sept. 30, according to the 10Q filed after market close Thursday. One was the acquisition of AdECN, an online ad exchange, announced in July . Another, the August acquisition of Parlano, the maker of enterprise chat software. The purchase of comparison shopping...
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Silicon Alley Insider (Free subscription) | 10/26/2007
The worst-performing division at turbocharged global behemoth Microsoft (MSFT) is--you guessed it--online services. But the news this quarter is actually not uniformly bad:Advertising revenue rose 25% on an organic basis, 33% with half-quarter contribution from aQuantive. This is a deceleration...
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John Cook's Venture Blog (Free subscription) | 10/25/2007
Nicolas Hanauer helped build aQuantive into an online advertising powerhouse, highlighted by its sale to Microsoft for $6 billion earlier this year.
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Silicon Alley Insider (Free subscription) | 10/24/2007
While they're cracking the champagne up in Redmond, let us keep in mind that this was not an outright acquisition like aQuantive. It was not a control position. It was not a major investment that might someday yield a humongous...
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Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 10/19/2007
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 19 (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp said its $6 billion acquisition of aQuantive will fill out its Internet advertising technology and make it as competitive as Google Inc in that market.
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Pod Tech (Free subscription) | 10/17/2007
Jay Sears, senior vice president for Context Web and ADSDAQ talks with John Ince about how advertising exchanges have suddenly emerged as premium Web properties with Google acquiring Doubleclick for $3.1 billion, Yahoo! acquiring Right Media for $800 million and Microsoft acquiring aQuantive for $6+ billion. Sears believes that this trend is significant because the [...]
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Seeking Alpha (Free subscription) | 10/11/2007
Calven Roberts submits: Renewed optimism surrounds shares of ValueClick (VCLK) in the aftermath of Microsoft's (MSFT) buyout of aQuantive. Complete Story »
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Clickety Clack: Online Ad Blog (Free subscription) | 10/10/2007
Valueclick jumped on takeover speculation. Before Microsoft's acquisition of aQuantive, aQuantive was in merger talks with ValueClick, Cramer explained. Now Brian McAndrews, the former CEO of aQuantive, is a “key player” in Microsoft's online ad business, and Cramer believes ValueClick...
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MarketBeat (Free subscription) | 10/09/2007
Shares of Microsoft have been given a boost today by the researchers at Goldman Sachs, who bumped up their earnings estimates by a penny for the software colossus, based on expectations for a strong first run for the Halo3 game and its acquisition of digital marketing firm aQuantive.
