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via VOX.com @ 15:41 11th Oct
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Yahoo Inc. and Google Inc. agreed to delay an Internet advertising partnership while U.S. regulators investigate whether the deal will hurt competition. The companies agreed to a "brief" delay while discussions with the Justice Department continue, Yahoo and Google said yesterday in e-mailed statements. Google chief executive officer Eric Schmidt said in August that the partnership would start in early October. Competitors, consumer advocates and customers questioned whether the partnership would give Google too much control over advertising and information on the Web. The plan raised eyebrows as soon as it was announced in mid-June because Google and Yahoo together handle more than 80 per cent of U.S. Web searches. GOOG (Nasdaq) fell $3.58 (U.
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via Report On Business @ 17:46 4th Oct
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Yahoo Inc. and Google Inc. agreed to delay an Internet advertising partnership while U.S. regulators investigate whether the deal will hurt competition. The companies agreed to a "brief" delay while discussions with the Justice Department continue, Yahoo and Google said yesterday in e-mailed statements. Google chief executive officer Eric Schmidt said in August that the partnership would start in early October. Competitors, consumer advocates and customers questioned whether the partnership would give Google too much control over advertising and information on the Web. The plan raised eyebrows as soon as it was announced in mid-June because Google and Yahoo together handle more than 80 per cent of U.S. Web searches. GOOG (Nasdaq) fell $3.58 (U.
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via Globe Investor @ 17:46 4th Oct
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Google said that it will delay its search advertising deal with Yahoo while the DOJ continues its antitrust investigation into the agreement.
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via Computerworld Australia @ 2:09 7th Oct
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Google and Yahoo will further delay their controversial search-advertising deal in the face of an ongoing investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice.
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via PC World @ 22:15 5th Oct
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Google and Yahoo will further delay their controversial search-advertising deal in the face of an ongoing investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice.
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via NetworkWorld @ 23:08 3rd Oct
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The deal between Yahoo and Google, which would see Google supply ads for the search pages of its largest competitor, has already been put on hold while the Justice Department evaluates it on antitrust grounds. Most observers are expecting a straight thumbs-up or -down from the DoJ, based on how the deal will affect prices and competition. But at least one US Senator feels that this isn't sufficient. Herb Kohl (D-WI) has released an open letter in which he calls on the DoJ to monitor how the deal evolves, and be prepared to step in at any point it decides that competition for search ads has been harmed. Meanwhile, Google and Yahoo have agreed to put the deal on hold until the DoJ's investigation is complete.
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via ArsTechnica @ 3:35 6th Oct
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Google announced Wednesday that it was pulling out of an advertising deal struck with Yahoo! in June of 2008 in the face of threats from the DOJ of legal action to block the deal. Google cited concern that a protracted legal battle would be bad for Google and its shareholders, while Yahoo! issued its own statement saying the deal was worth defending in court.
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via Mac Observer @ 6:27 6th Nov
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An advertising partnership between Google and Yahoo faced strident criticism and delays. But as Google and Yahoo meet with the Justice Department to address regulators' concerns, reports are saying Google may want to walk away from the proposed ad deal. If Google walks away from the deal, Microsoft may be waiting in the wings to buy Yahoo.
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via Top Tech News @ 18:41 3rd Nov
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One of the concerns lawmakers and regulators have about the (currently suspended) Google/Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) search ad pact is that it would make Yahoo’s search business a permanent also-ran to Google (NSDQ: GOOG). So a cynical mind might suppose that a post on Yahoo’s Search Blog about its forthcoming online and offline ad campaign is roughly meant to declare: “Our search platform is still viable despite Google’s dominance!” It could also be a response to other offline campaigns by IAC (NSDQ: IACI) for its search engine Ask.com, which hasn’t necessarily translated into a major usage by consumers. Still, even Google is considering its first major traditional ad campaign, so this sudden branding activity could be just another tactic by Yahoo to generate more users and deal with what’s expected to be a deeper ad slowdown.
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via PaidContent.org @ 23:18 14th Oct
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Google and Yahoo won't be consummating their ad outsourcing deal just yet. In statements issued late on Friday, the Web giants said they would postpone the agreement to give the Justice Department time to continue its probe. Both companies said they would accept a "brief delay" in implementing the outsourcing contract, originally scheduled for early October. However they did not indicate just how long they'd be willing to defer. "We have had discussions with regulators and look forward to responding to their questions about this agreement," Yahoo said in its statement. Google's declaration was similar: "As we are still in conversation with the Department of Justice, we have agreed to a brief delay in implementing the agreement while those discussions continue," it said.
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via ClickZ Today @ 17:44 4th Oct
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JagsLive points out a Reuters story which suggests that Google may walk away from its deal with Yahoo instead of accepting possible antitrust limitations from the government. The ongoing investigation of the deal by the Department of Justice has caused new concerns to be raised over whether the two companies have adequately addressed issues such as privacy and competition. From Reuters: "'Are they more serious about walking away? Yes. Have they decided? I'm not sure,' one source told Reuters on Friday. 'Yahoo wants the deal, and they're willing to have Google sign anything at the Justice Department to have them do it.' ... Part of the impetus of Google's walking away could be Yahoo's talks with Time Warner Inc about buying the content and advertising operations of its AOL unit.
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via Slashdot @ 11:59 1st Nov
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Google had originally announced an advertising deal with Yahoo back in June, which would have been worth $800m a year to the latter. Google is now dropping the deal in the face of anti-trust objections from concerned parties including Microsoft and the Association of National Advertisers. Yahoo is reportedly disappointed that Google didn't want to put up a fight in court, while Google have said that a protracted legal battle would simply distract from their core mission of innovation. Overall, it is another piece of bad news in what has been a turbulent year for Yahoo.
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via Overclockers Club @ 4:02 6th Nov
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Google and Yahoo have made major concessions in their proposed search advertising deal in hopes of getting the Justice Department to go along with it, according to a Wall Street Journal story. People “familiar with the matter” say the new proposal, submitted over the weekend, shortens the term of the deal from 10 years to two years and places a limit on the revenue Yahoo can generate from Google to 25% of Yahoo’s search revenue. Also, Google advertisers can opt not to have their ads shown on Yahoo. (UPDATED with more analysis below.)
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via BusinessWeek @ 6:04 4th Nov
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JagsLive writes with a link to a BetaNews story about a US Senator who is questioning whether the deal between Yahoo and Google was brokered with less than honorable intentions on Google's part. The advertising deal came under scrutiny from the Department of Justice recently for potential antitrust violations. The deal has now been delayed in order to allow investigators more time for evaluation. Meanwhile, rumors are circulating that Yahoo will cut as much as 20% of its workforce after an internal memo from CEO Jerry Yang called for "discipline" and said the company was "getting fit" for the long term. For their part, Google has launched a site endorsing the deal and attempting to smooth the way for its approval by providing facts and positive reactions from experts.
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via Slashdot @ 14:34 4th Oct
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Google and Yahoo have made major concessions in their proposed search advertising deal in hopes of getting the Justice Department to go along with it, according to a Wall Street Journal story. People “familiar with the matter” say the new proposal, submitted over the weekend, shortens the term of the deal from 10 years to two years and places a limit on the revenue Yahoo can generate from Google to 25% of Yahoo’s search revenue. Also, Google advertisers can opt not to have their ads shown on Yahoo.
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via BusinessWeek @ 20:32 3rd Nov
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Despite some rumbles about the Google-Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) ad deal being in regulatory trouble, the two companies insist they are still talking to the U.S. Justice Department about it, CEO Eric Schmidt said today. The companies have extended their discussions with DoJ, it announced earlier this month, though Google (NSDQ: GOOG) had previously said that it would move ahead with implementing the deal in October, with or without approval from antitrust approval.
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via PaidContent.org @ 23:22 21st Oct
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As it tries to avoid a potential antitrust clampdown from the Justice Department over its search ad deal with Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO), Google (NSDQ: GOOG) hopes it can ease advertisers’ fears about the pact as well. In a post on the Google Public Policy blog, the company tries to make the case that the partnership won’t result in higher prices—necessarily, anyway. But Google certainly doesn’t deny that some marketers will see higher charges. Excerpts from the Google-Yahoo ad FAQ are below:
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via PaidContent.org @ 10:13 19th Sep
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The controversial search as deal will be further delayed as the Department of Justice continues its investigation into antitrust matters
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via InfoWorld @ 17:06 5th Oct
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Executives at both Google and Yahoo both think their search advertising deal, which would see ads from the former appear on the search results of the latter, is a win for their companies. They are, however, facing some difficulty convincing others that this is the case. Now, a report is suggesting that the companies are trying to smooth things over with the US Department of Justice, perhaps the biggest obstacle to the deal's implementation.
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via ArsTechnica @ 14:52 14th Oct
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Google and Yahoo may be calling it quits. Their partnership to serve Google ads to Yahoo search pages has been held up by a Justice Department investigation since June. And now it looks like the deal may be falling apart.
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via Wired News @ 10:44 21st Oct
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Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) is trying hard to snatch away the search deal that Google (NSDQ: GOOG) has been working on with the second largest U.S. carrier Verizon Wireless (NYSE: VZ), and has offered a much sweeter rev share deal as part of it, reports WSJ, citing sources. MSFT saw an opening as Google was distracted trying to work and defend its search ad pact with Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO), which was officially called off yesterday, the story says. Details of Google’s talks with VZW came out in August, and at that time the deal was supposed to be a comprehensive one: Google would have been the default search provider on Verizon devices and would give it a share of ad revenue. The search functionality would be on VZW’s homescreen. Later on, the deal could extend to Verizonâs Web portal and even its FiOS TV service.
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via MocoNews.net @ 4:20 7th Nov
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After months of stalling and days of foreboding, Google's search ad deal with Yahoo is kaput. Prompted by an antitrust lawsuit threat from the U.S. Department of Justice, Google this morning announced it will end the agreement to run some if its ads in Yahoo search results.
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via ClickZ Today @ 18:02 5th Nov
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Google & YahooIn a last-ditch effort to win US antitrust approval, Yahoo Inc and Google Inc have drastically scaled back the scope of their search advertising deal, calls for Google to place ads next to some Web search results on Yahoo, lifting Yahoo's revenue.
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via Topnews.in @ 16:14 4th Nov
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Google (NSDQ: GOOG) and Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) are in talks with the Justice Department over their proposed ad deal, in an effort to head off an antitrust challenge, reports WSJ, citing sources. While the regulatory investigators are building their case to block this deal, settlement talks are also in an early stage. The drumbeat against the deal has been steadily growing louder over the last month or so, as rival companies and associations have come out against the search ad deal.
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via PaidContent.org @ 4:05 14th Oct
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