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Google: It pays to make ads work
News The company is trying to solve the online ad problem in part with DoubleClick, the display-ad company Google bought earlier this year. Google's cash cow is selling text advertisements that appear next to search results, but with DoubleClick, Google... [12 Jun 2008]
Google execs defend a Yahoo! ad deal
News Google's cash comes chiefly from text ads in the form of AdWords, which appear alongside search results, and AdSense, which appear on partners' web pages; Google's acquisition of DoubleClick, though, is designed to improve its display-ad business. [09 May 2008]
Google DoubleClick deal: EU ramps up scrutiny
News European antitrust regulators will conduct a more extensive, second-phase review of Google's pending merger with DoubleClick, the EU has announced. Regulators will look in greater detail into whether a merger between search giant Google and online... [14 Nov 2007]
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AS Profile Acquisitions has been the big theme, with the $1.65bn deal to buy video-sharing website YouTube, a proposed $3.1bn purchase of web advertising supplier DoubleClick and the $625m acquisition of web security company Postini. [12 Oct 2007]
Google proposes global privacy standard
News However, a privacy advocate dismissed the move as a desperate attempt by Google to appear to be sensitive to privacy issues in the midst of government scrutiny of its proposed $3.1 billion acquisition of online ad firm DoubleClick. [14 Sep 2007]
Google "ecstatic" about Q1 results
News However, if its planned $3.1bn acquisition of DoubleClick goes through, it will have a huge display, or banner ad, business, too. Google chief executive Eric Schmidt said in a conference call with analysts: "We are ecstatic about our financial... [20 Apr 2007]
Google going after PowerPoint?
News Follow the link to watch the Google CEO discussing the DoubleClick deal. Battelle also asked Schmidt about Google's proposed $3.1bn acquisition of online display ad company DoubleClick. Google co-founder Sergey Brin used to deride DoubleClick ads... [18 Apr 2007]
Video: Google CEO on the DoubleClick deal
Video At the Web 2.0 Expo conference in San Francisco, Google CEO Eric Schmidt tells conference speaker John Battelle about the search giant's recent deal to buy advertising company DoubleClick, and how the acquistion will help bring more targeted ads... [18 Apr 2007]
YouTube copyright filter nearly ready: Google
News Schmidt took the opportunity to poke fun at Microsoft's assertion that Google's pending acquisition of DoubleClick may be a threat to fair competition. Google is very near enacting a filtering service that would prevent copyright content from being... [17 Apr 2007]
CRM software firm closes its doors
News Likely buyers include rival firms Chordiant Software, DoubleClick and Unica, Schmitt said. PeopleSoft, SAS, NCR Teradata and DoubleClick have all acquired ailing CRM software firms, some of them Xchange rivals, or their assets. [21 Feb 2003]
