The big boys play hard ball
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It is customary to divide online advertising into two categories: direct response and brand advertising. I prefer instead to divide it according to the mindset of users: whether or not they are actively looking to purchase something (i.e. they have purchasing intent )
FB and search
In Jim Sheridan’s 2009 film Brothers , Jake Gyllenhaal and Tobey Maguire play two siblings that are opposites.
Twitter-FB collission
FB offered 120M$ to Foursquare
Here are some numbers we hadn't seen before to go along with the Facebook-Foursquare acquisition chatter from earlier this year, before Foursquare raised its big round . CNET's Caroline McCarthy reports that Facebook had offered Foursquare $120 million (presumably a combination of cash and stock, though McCarthy doesn't specify). Foursquare then asked for "about 25 percent more," which is about $150 million.
We have spent much of the past year trying to resolve our differences over the thorny issue of "network neutrality." This hasn't been an easy process, and Google and Verizon are neither regulators nor legislators. But as leaders in our respective fields, we have searched for workable public policies that serve consumer interests and create a climate for investment and innovation.
Google-Verizon Net neutrality
Like kids picking sides in a schoolyard quarrel, big Internet businesses are beginning to throw their weight around in response to Google's and Verizon Wireless' proposal on net neutrality .
AT&T Pro / Facebook Against
Google / Verizon
Google has quietly (secretly, one might say) invested somewhere between $100 million and $200 million in social gaming behemoth Zynga , we’ve confirmed from multiple sources. The company has raised somewhere around half a billion dollars in venture capital in the last year alone, including $150 million from Softbank Capital last month and $180 million late last year from Digital Sky Technologies, Tiger Global, Institutional Venture Partners and Andreessen Horowitz. The Softbank announcement was never officially confirmed by the company, however, and the Google investment was likely part of that deal as well.
Google and gaming
Murdoch = GOOG
GOOG - China
Adobe - Apple war