Tue, 2011-11-01 20:49 - By
Advertising Business,
Advertising News,
Analysis,
Digital Media,
Media Business,
Advertising,
Media,
AOL,
Business Insider,
Facebook,
Google,
Microsoft,
Yahoo
A stunning pie-chart from Business Insider reveals interesting data; only five companies control 64 per cent of all online advertising spending! Google gets almost half of the total online ad spending worth $29 billion, which makes up 46 per cent of all online ad spend. Yahoo! controls $6 billion, Microsoft $2.2 billion, Facebook $1.9 billion and AOL $1.3 billion. The remaining $23 billion of total online spending on advertising is goes to everyone else.
Mon, 2011-10-10 10:02 - By
Digital Media,
Media Business,
Media,
Alibaba,
Allen & Co,
AOL,
Goldman Sachs,
Microsoft,
Microsoft Corp,
Reuters,
Yahoo!
According to Reuters, Microsoft Corp is considering a bid for Yahoo! Inc., which has a market value of about $20 billion and is readying financial pitch books for potential buyers. One camp inside Microsoft is hot for the deal, believing that it would create a strong Web portal that can offer better products to audiences, advertisers and end users.
Microsoft last tried buying Yahoo in 2008, offering to pay as much as $47.5 billion, or $33 per share.
Any auction process for Yahoo is still in the early stages, and the company's financial advisers, Goldman Sachs and Allen & Co, are preparing to send financial information to potential bidders.