Acquisition

Popular blogging platform Posterous has been acquired by Twitter. Posterous announced on Monday that it has been acquired, but that Posterous Spaces will remain up and running without disruption and that users will receive ample notice should there be any changes to its service offering.Alluding to possible upcoming changes, Posterous ...

Google's US$12.5-billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility has set the digital community ablaze with a fresh crop of gripping hypotheses about its mobile end-game.This is a characteristically mercenary effort to cement Android's position in the handset ecosystem. While much can be said about how this affects the balance of ...

As many words have already been written about Google snapping up Motorola as dollars changing hands in the deal. Here’s a Twitter-length analysis: "$12.5-b from GOOG for fading maker of mobiles and set top boxes to stymie Apple lawyers with 17,000+ patents; other Android OEMs poker-faced". Now, Gearburn predicts what ...

Twitter, the micro-blogging sensation expected to rake in US$150-million in advertising revenue this year, is looking at an acquisition by Google and Facebook as the Wall Street Journal has just revealed.Some "low-level talks" between executives of the companies have been discussed, though the Journal adds that “the talks have so ...

Had the privilege to meet up with Saul Klein, E-commerce VP at Skype and founder of the Open Coffee club, who was in the country yesterday. While chatting to him about the local online scene together with my colleague, Vincent Maher, we got talking about Facebook and other niche social ...

Online advertising as we know it is crude. But it is entering a new era of sophistication....The internet allows us to target advertising to an unprecedented degree, so why are most banner ads still served on such a hit-and-miss basis?Publishers slap up an insurance ad on a homepage in the ...

Online advertising is not only about clicks, leads and acquisitions… branding is important too....There are a number of competing online advertising models on the net. By far the most dominant one used by online publishers is the Cost-per-Thousand (CPM) model. CPM is the closest online advertising gets to advertising in ...

On Poynter emedia tidbits on which I am a fellow contributor, the big question is asked of the dot.com mega success story, Google: "Can someone please step up and say we're facing a monster?"It goes on, referring to the Google Youtube acquisition: "As Google continues to grow, it has shown ...