This is pretty big news in the online advertising world! This article comes from the New York Times. “Google reached an agreement today to acquire DoubleClick, the online advertising company, from two private equity firms for $3.1 billion in cash, the companies announced, an amount that was almost double the $1.65 billion in stock that Google paid for YouTube late last year.
The sale offers Google access to DoubleClick’s advertisement software and, more importantly, its relationships with Web publishers, advertisers and advertising agencies.” To read the rest of this article click here.
Comscore just released the Google, Yahoo and Bing search engine market share report for March 2012. According to them, “Google Sites led the U.S. explicit core search market in March with 66.4 percent market share, followed by Microsoft Sites with 15.3 percent and Yahoo! Sites with 13.7 percent. Ask Network accounted for 3.0 percent of [...]
We all know nothing is constant when dealing with companies like Google and Facebook except for “CHANGE!” It can be overwhelming to stay on top of these changes when they occur. Facebook announced they will be converting all business pages to the Timeline format this weekend. Here is a great article about how you can [...]