The tussle between Yahoo and Microsoft has gone through a couple of extra rounds of late. We thought we’d bring you up to date with the current state of play.
Back in Feb Microsoft offered Yahoo $44Bn. Yahoo said no thanks.
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Ofcom Proposes Restrictions On Cash Cow Participation TV
There’s no shock that Ofcom have today detailed new Broadcasting Code rules intended to control the once-bonanza income generating TV programmes using Premium Rate Services (PRS) phone lines.The new rules make it clear that both radio and TV programmes cannot, as their primary focus, be encouraging viewers to call in using PRS. The focus should be editorial.
Web Ontrack To Usurp TV As UK’s Top Advertising Medium
The Internet is on track to boot King TV off its throne as the biggest advertising medium in the UK by the end of next year, according to a report published yesterday.The report by the Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB), PricewaterhouseCoopers and the World Advertising Research Centre, claims that Britain has the most developed online-advertising market in the world, with the UK market notching up a mighty £2.8bn in 2007.
(more…)“Eco Amazon.com rival” BetterWorld Books Gets Funding
The online retailer, Better World Books – company that resells used books and donates some of the proceeds to fund global literacy projects – has stepped up operations and has brought in its first outside investment as part of a program of expansion.Better World Books currently collects and resells used books from university bookstores and libraries, and donates an average of 10 percent of book’s price to various nonprofit literacy groups.
(more…)Google Android Phone Summer Launch Date?
Rumours on the web are suggesting that handsets running Google’s eagerly anticipated Android operating system might start shipping earlier than some expected.The cat was apparently let out of the bag by Google’s Washington telecom and media counsel, Richard Whitt, who said in a conference call that Android phones could be out as early as summer this year.
fipr: Phorm Web Monitoring Illegal?
Ask most people about their views on Phorm and you’ll either get a blank look or people turning purple with rage.In brief: It’s a ‘service’ that monitors all of your normal Web browsing, with the stated aim of providing personalised advertising to you. All of this monitoring is made possible under agreements with ISPs, including BT, Talk Talk and Virgin Media.
(more…)Mobile Search Revenues To Hit $4.8 Billion by 2013
There’s great pots of cash to be found in them thar mobile search hills, with annual revenues generated by mobile search services expected to reach a pocket-bulging $4.8bn by 2013.The figures comes from spoddy analyst types Juniper Research, who reckon that local search services are on track to become the biggest hit with advertisers, scooping up 40% of mobile search adspend over the period from 2008-2013.
WightCable Get AirSpan WiMax Kit
We wouldn’t normally cover something as apparently dry as this, but personal interest is a factor here.Having space-shifted from London to The Isle of Wight just over three years ago, it’s really pleasing to see that the holder of WiMax license for the Island has applied to locate the WiMax aerial and kit in the town that we moved to – Ventnor.
Web Creator Speaks Out Against Phorm Net Tracking
Web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee, has voiced his concerns over the future of the Internet, saying that consumers need to be protected against systems designed to track their web based activity.
(more…)Bebo Sells To AOL: $850m
AOL will be buying social Networking site Bebo for $850m cash.Well done to all of those at Bebo, the social network that (more or less) quietly got on with building its 40 million members while the other social network shouted about what they were up to.
It’s interesting that the deal is all cash, with one interpretation of that being that Bebo and its backers wanted to cashout rather than receive stock that might decrease in value.
There’s no shock that Ofcom have today detailed new Broadcasting Code rules intended to control the once-bonanza income generating TV programmes using Premium Rate Services (PRS) phone lines.
The Internet is on track to boot King TV off its throne as the biggest advertising medium in the UK by the end of next year, according to a report published yesterday.
The online retailer, Better World Books – company that resells used books and donates some of the proceeds to fund global literacy projects – has stepped up operations and has brought in its first outside investment as part of a program of expansion.
Rumours on the web are suggesting that handsets running Google’s eagerly anticipated Android operating system might start shipping earlier than some expected.
Ask most people about their views on Phorm and you’ll either get a blank look or people turning purple with rage.
There’s great pots of cash to be found in them thar mobile search hills, with annual revenues generated by mobile search services expected to reach a pocket-bulging $4.8bn by 2013.
We wouldn’t normally cover something as apparently dry as this, but personal interest is a factor here.
Web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee, has voiced his concerns over the future of the Internet, saying that consumers need to be protected against systems designed to track their web based activity.
AOL will be buying social Networking site Bebo for $850m cash.