I’m here at the OMMA Global Conference in Hollywood (I just moderated a panel on Local Search) and I hate to say that I’m not really all that impressed. I’ve talked to a number of attendees and I’m hearing a…

March 11th The European Commission has cleared the proposed $3.1 billion USD acquisition by Google Inc. of the online advertising technology company DoubleClick. On Apr. 13, Google announced that it would pay $3.1 billion for DoubleClick and was vying for…

Yahoo! spends $300 million for BlueLithium

Ze Frank gave a very entertaining keynote address, taking the first half hour to get us into the mood before going into how he got into the Internet.

Based on his experience flying and observing the oddities of imparting information…

Not to be left at the altar again, Microsoft took the plunge and announced they will buy online agency/technology provider Aquantive. Aquantive is best known as the producer of the Atlas Media Console and Drive PM tools for advertisers and…

London-based WPP Group announced today that they had agreed to acquire 24/7 Real Media for $11.75 a share. Last month after the Google/Doubleclick deal there was speculation that Microsoft would then go after 24/7. Did Microsoft lose again, or did they…

There is a great article in the latest Technology Review that looks at the current Net Neutrality debate by examining the past. You can look at recent history, such as the cell phone networks of today, or go further back and…

When we started with our Classifieds service back in 1994, the strategy was to go after newspapers and bring them online. We were small and agile and could get them up and running with classifieds online in weeks. We could…

The first panel of the show addressed the statement: The Internet will become the primary distribution channel for all media content. Panelists were from Fox Sports, Yahoo, AOL, MSNBC, and ABC. There was reasonable agreement that while the internet may…

Reports of the sale of Sex.com for $14 million may have been suffering from premature exclamation. Perhaps we all should have been thinking about baseball statistics, because a source “familiar with the deal” is reporting that the deal is closer to…