News from www.lacrossetribune.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
La Crosse County Democrats are using Friday’s visit from Republican presidential hopeful John McCain to rally support for Barack Obama.
JSOnline (Free subscription) | yesterday
General Motors Corp. is expected to announce as soon as Monday that its SUV plant in Janesville will close around...
Electronista (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
Verizon on Wednesday sent out a memo to its partners to inform them it will charge an extra fee of three cents for every mobile terminated text message they send to Verizon subscribers beginning on November 1st. Such messages include text alerts, int...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
MADISON, Wis., Oct. 9 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- U.S. Senator Herb Kohl will rally community members, supporters and volunteers at the Obama Campaign for Change office in La Crosse TOMORROW, Friday, October 10, ...
Search Engine Watch (Free subscription) | 10/06/2008
Today's search engine marketing news and opinion: Charity Events: Search With a Cause; Google No Longer Directory Promoter?; Senator Kohl Wants Oversight of Google-Yahoo Deal; and more.
VentureBeat (Free subscription) | 10/06/2008
Here’s the latest action: Google and Yahoo delay ad deal — The delay gives the Justice Department more time for its antitrust investigation. This news, as well as calls by Sen. Herb Kohl (chair of the Senate Antitrust Committee) for more scrutiny, probably doesn’t bode well for the deal, though it may buy the tech companies [...]
The Industry Standard (Free subscription) | 10/06/2008
Here’s the latest action: Google and Yahoo delay ad deal — The delay gives the Justice Department more time for its antitrust investigation . This news, as well as calls by Sen. Herb Kohl (chair of the Senate Antitrust Committee) for more scrutiny, probably doesn’t bode well for the deal, though it may buy the tech companies more time to negotiate. Wells Fargo plans merger with Wachovia — Friday’s...
Ars Technica (Free subscription) | 10/06/2008
Senator Herb Kohl is worried about the impact of Yahoo's deal with Google, which will see the latter place ads on the search results pages of the former. The two companies have decided to delay the deal's implementation until Justice finishes its investigation. Read More...
Mashable (Free subscription) | 10/04/2008
Steadfastness and fortuity can only hold up to so much scrutiny before it submits to external influences. Or so it goes with the Yahoo-plus-Google search advertisement revenue sharing deal that the two Web giants have been pushing for the last several months . I can’t say I didn’t expect this to happen. Of course, anything could occur. Google could have played its cards stiff all the way though. But...
Tech Beat (Free subscription) | 10/04/2008
Just got official word that Google and Yahoo, which had been slated to start their controversial search advertising deal in the next couple of weeks, have agreed to a "brief delay" to continue talking with the Justice Dept. Here's the...
BetaNews (Free subscription) | 10/04/2008
With the DOJ expressing skepticism over Yahoo's agreement to sell search ad space to its biggest competitor, a letter from a key US senator urging action could be preaching to the choir. What's interesting is that senator's theory.
ZD Net Blog (Free subscription) | 10/03/2008
Update: Google and Yahoo agree to "briefly" delay the deal to give Justice time to look into it. (New York Times) Congress continued its poking around in the Google-Yahoo deal with Sen. Herb Kohl (D-WI) calling on the Justice Dept. to give the deal strict scrutiny. In a letter to Justice (PDF), Kohl called for an examination on these issues, among others: whether this agreement will lead to higher...
Daily Tech (Free subscription) | 10/03/2008
Could more layoffs be in store for Yahoo?
Portfolio.com: The Tech Observer (Free subscription) | 10/03/2008
Senate Antitrust subcommittee chairman Herb Kohl is urging the Justice Department to monitor and take action against Google down the road even if its ad-sharing deal with Yahoo passes initial muster. While he did not object to the deal outright Kohl wrote a letter to Congress yesterday urging the Justice department to take action again "if, over time, you determine that Google is gaining a dominant...
Information Week (Free subscription) | 10/03/2008
Google and Yahoo announced their non-exclusive advertising deal in June and would allow Google to run ads alongside Yahoo search results.
