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AppsFire.com ★ blog ★ (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
They just acquired Admob who serves this kind of ad your see on your iPhone I just hope they will now target them better in the future (important precision: i am a man) Permalink | Leave a comment »
TechCrunch (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
Google has just announced that it has acquired AdMob , the mobile ad platform that has been especially popular on the iPhone, for $750 million. This is a big win for the company's early investors, which include Sequoia Capital and Accel Partners (this is a huge day for Accel — they were also investors in Playfish, which was just acquired by EA. More recent investors include DFJ and Northgate...
The Business Insider (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
Wireless broadband carrier Clearwire needs more money, and previous backers have agreed to kick in $1.5 billion more, the WSJ reports . The round could be announced "as soon as this week" -- perhaps during Clearwire's Q3 earnings report on Tuesday afternoon. These investors include its biggest outside investor, Sprint Nextel, which is investing another $1 billion. It also includes Intel...
Media Matters for America (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
He failed miserably with MySpace. He launched the right-wing TheFoxNation.com claiming it was "time to say 'no' to biased media and 'yes' to fair play and free speech." Quit laughing. He may be interested in buying Twitter.com. He paid big bucks to settle hacking lawsuits. Now, Rupert Murdoch, chairman of News Corp the parent company of Fox News, is apparently readying himself for war with...
The Business Insider (Free subscription) | 40 minutes ago
Google spent $750 million buying AdMob today because the mobile ad network is growing like a weed, with ad requests at 10.2 billion in September, up from 2.5 billion in January 2008. A lot of that growth is being driven by Apple's iPod and the iTouch. A quarter of AdMob's requests come from Apple devices. Follow the Chart Of The Day on Twitter: www.twitter.com/chartoftheday Get This Delivered To Your...
TechCrunch (Free subscription) | 57 minutes ago
OffiSync , the Microsoft Office plugin that allows users to sync their documents easily with Google Docs, has launched a new release today that will make it even more appealing to businesses: support for Google Sites. Google Sites is the search giant's answer to Microsoft SharePoint, so this will give business users an alternative solution they can use to manage their documents in a shared workspace....
The Business Insider (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
Jason Calacanis floats a solution to some perennial problems: How Bing might actually be able to gain some serious market share against Google How Murdoch might stop trashing Google for sending him boatloads of traffic for free Here's Jason: Not sure if you read Rupert Murdoch's comments today that Newscorp will probably block the Google search spider from indexing their news sites soon. Essentially...
Eschaton (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
As is occasionally pointed out when journalists and news business people complain that Google is stealing their content, if they don't want Google to index their pages they can simply... tell Google not to index their pages by inserting a bit of code into them. What they really want Google to do is pay them for the privilege of making money from a derivative of their product, the way book reviewers...
The Boy Genius Report (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
The implications of this deal are exciting. Google has purchased, in cash, the internet VoIP company Gizmo5 for a cool $30 million. The deal brings a true SIP/VoIP provider into the Google fold — the potential to merge the acquired…
Lifehacker (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
A lot of people aren't that keen on the current look of most Google applications—hence the popularity of redesigned user skins . On the other hand, many users really like the look of Google Wave , the newest invite-only service from Google. (See our first look , or just read the book .) If you happen to be one of the people who love Wave's look, you'll like this rumor: According to gadget weblog...
Techdirt (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
Last month, we wrote about the highly troubling efforts by the head of software firm Jenzabar to abuse trademark law to stifle criticism of that company's founder and CEO (who, earlier in her life, was famous for "leading" part of the student uprising in Tiananmen Square. She was upset at the makers of a documentary film that was somewhat critical of her, and she tried to use trademark law...
The Business Insider (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
Google and AdMob were kind enough to chat with us for a few minutes about today's dea l. After the conversation, we're more comfortable that Google hasn't gone stark-raving mad. In fact, we think it's probably a smart bet. Our basic questions were: What's AdMob's revenue? Is that gross revenue or net revenue? What is the revenue split between AdMob and publishers? Why did Google pay stock instead...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG - News) today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire AdMob, a mobile display ad technology provider, for $750 million in stock. This acquisition will enhance Google's existing expertise and technology in mobile advertising, while also giving advertisers and publishers more choice in this growing new area. More...
GigaOM (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
Rupert Murdoch, founder and the head honcho of News Corp., the largest media company in the world wants to block access to his content and set-up pay walls around it. News Corp already does it at The Wall Street Journal. “The people who simply just pick up everything and run with it – steal our [...]
Bits (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
The parties to the proposed legal settlement over Google's plan to digitize the world's books have asked the judge for more time to craft a deal.
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noblog | 11/05/2009
A lot of interesting smartphones and cell phones both for Windows Mobile 6.5, and for Google Android were recently presented at CTIA in Las Vegas. Here is the list of the 10 most interesting of them. Samsung Moment This is the second phone from Samsung, announced at CTIA. Before this... Samsung Behold II This phone is also equipped with a convenient display. However, it has more features of interface
kalyanim | 11/05/2009
Big Bird , Sesame Street and Google Why not? Yellow lining on their feet today to mark the site Home birth is 40th show.
sonupt5@gmail.com | 11/05/2009
Google Doodles for Sesame Street's 40th Anniversary | 40th Anniversary of Sesame Street on Google All week Google will be showing Google Doodle's on their home page in honor of Sesame Street's 40th Anniversary. We can look forward to seeing some of our favorite muppet doodles up on the Google homepage. The muppets are very cool celebrities in the eyes of parents and children. They have also been known
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