Yahoo Invests in Tyroo Media

According to InfoWorld, Yahoo announced Wednesday that it has purchased a 35 percent stake in Tyroo Media, an India based PPC internet advertising company which places ads on a network of around 1200 websites. “Yahoo India has bought more than 35 but less than...

Google to Challenge Skype

Last week Google made its move against eBay owned Skype, an online person-to-person internet telephony company, with the purchase of startup company, GrandCentral Communications. On Monday, Google product manager Wesley Chan posted confirmation of the deal in the...

CBS Jumps on the Bandwagon and Purchases Wallstrip

This Monday CBS joined the acquisition bandwagon and bought the popular online video site Wallstrip.com. Purchased for a price in the single-digit millions (rumors are around $5 million but this has been disputed) after having been online for less than a year,...

Microsoft Spends a Record 6 Billion on Acquisition

Microsoft finally took the plunge today and announced the pending acquisition of advertising giant aQuantive based out of Seattle for a cool $6 billion; an eighty-five percent premium over the shares on Thursday. Here are some great articles on the subject: Todd...

eBay + StumbleUpon

The social marketing and search engine world is buzzing over the potential acquisition of StumbleUpon by leading auction company eBay. The news of interest from eBay filtered into the news on April 18th with other potential suitors being AOL and Google but yesterday...