Yahoo / Microsoft
comScore, Inc. came out with a media advisory today showing that the total world wide visitors of a combined Yahoo & Microsoft’s websites would have exceeded Google's site visitors in December of 2007 by 77 million visitors. However in the share of search traffic, Google would still lead with 58.4% U.S. market share and 62.4% worldwide vs. Yahoo & Microsoft's combined 32.7% U.S., and a 15.7% search market share worldwide.
AOL / Buy.at
After having been rejected in their $900 million bid to by Tradedouber, AOL announced today that they have acquired Buy.at, a smaller competitor to Tradedoubler. The terms of the deal are currently undisclosed. Buy.at is the fifth advertising acquisition AOL has made in the past 12 months. (more info...)
Good coverage of the Microsoft Yahoo bid here: http://dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com/category/microsofts-yahoo-bid/
Posted by: Tony Topper | Feb 05, 2008 at 05:33 PM