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BUSINESS / NEWS Fri Oct 19, 2007 @ 12:04pm neoform

MSNBC -- Google Inc. rode the Internet advertising wave to another sparkling quarter, justifying the investor confidence that lifted its stock price by more than $100 during past month to establish the online search leader as Silicon Valley's most valuable company.. Read More

BUSINESS / OPINION Sat Apr 14, 2007 @ 11:19am neoform

BusinessWeek -- With its $3.1 billion acquisition, the Internet giant secures entry into the promising business of display advertising and thwarts Microsoft in online search Three billion dollars? On Apr. 13, Google announced that it would pay $3.1 billion for the adv.. Read More

BUSINESS / NEWS Fri Mar 23, 2007 @ 8:24am neoform

Yahoo News -- Dutch advertising company gratis-post.nl will begin offering consumers a pack of five envelopes with free stamps next month that they can use for standard letters up to 20 grams. The envelopes carry advertisements on the back, and the person requesting.. Read More

BUSINESS / NEWS Tue Oct 31, 2006 @ 8:21am neoform

CNET -- Google has begun sharing advertising revenue with the makers of a popular video clip in a groundbreaking deal that could drive up the costs of competing in the fledgling video-sharing sector... Read More

BUSINESS / NEWS Wed Apr 9, 2008 @ 8:17am neoform

CNN -- Budget airline Ryanair faces an investigation from the UK's consumer and competition authority following allegations of misleading and unfair advertising. British advertising watchdog the Advertising Standards Authority has referred Europe's leading low-c.. Read More

BUSINESS / OPINION Wed Oct 10, 2007 @ 12:51pm neoform

New York Times -- Eager to expand the holiday shopping season without provoking consumers, retailers are experimenting with a novel approach: earlier-than-ever advertising that deliberately plays down the tinsel and holly. Shattering records for an early start, Wal-Mart.. Read More

BUSINESS / NEWS Mon Jul 16, 2007 @ 1:48pm neoform

BusinessWeek -- Some members of Congress want to limit Big Pharma's ability to promote products directly to consumers. But the roadblocks are high If Representative Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) had his way, the little butterfly used to advertise the insomnia remedy Lunesta.. Read More

BUSINESS / NEWS Fri May 18, 2007 @ 4:57pm neoform

BusinessWeek -- The software giant paid $6 billion in cash and a massive premium to grab a major player in online advertising Microsoft took a deep plunge into the online advertising business Friday, paying $6 billion in cash and a massive 85 percent premium to snap u.. Read More

BUSINESS / NEWS Tue Apr 17, 2007 @ 12:28pm neoform

MSNBC -- AOL is seeking to capture advertising dollars normally spent on television by showcasing five new interactive programs a month before the broadcast networks announce their fall lineups. More than 500 advertising executives and media planners were invit.. Read More

BUSINESS / NEWS Sat Apr 7, 2007 @ 1:29pm neoform

Al Jazeera -- California-based Google began testing its television advertising system with Astound Broadband in about 25,000 households in Concord, a suburb of San Francisco, but Google has still not determined when it will begin distributing advertising to EchoStar's.. Read More

BUSINESS / NEWS Mon Dec 18, 2006 @ 9:55am mrmdc

ABC News -- If you're like most Americans, by the time you get to work in the morning, marketers have tried to sell you something more than 200 times... Read More

BUSINESS / NEWS Mon Oct 30, 2006 @ 11:26pm neoform

New York Times -- Critics in England have attacked plans by the BBC to sell advertising on its Web site. Now some of those critics inside the BBC are redoubling their efforts... Read More