According to a report in Reuters, the Justice Department is reportedly looking into antitrust implications of Yahoo’s decision to outsource some of its online ads to Google.
As we reported a couple of weeks ago, Yahoo tested about 3% of its traffic by having Google serve up ads, instead of its own system.
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With crude oil prices at $118 a barrel, (hitting $119.90 on tuesday), the question now is not if gas will hit $4 a gallon, but when will it hit $5.
The Fed must share blame for the spike in all commodity prices, since cutting its key federal funds rate to 2.25% from 5.25% starting back in […]

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An advertiser sued Google in federal court Tuesday claiming the company deceived him and charged for ads displayed on third party Web sites, even though he left blank an “optional” box that seemed to address the issue.
The lawsuit accuses Google of defrauding advertisers out of millions of dollars collectively by “redefining the universally understood meaning […]

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Yale University economist Robert Shiller who long ago predicted the housing market bubble, said today that the slump in the U.S. housing market could cause prices to fall more than they did in the Great Depression
“there’s a good chance housing prices will fall further than the 30 percent drop in the historic depression of the […]

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Yahoo reported slightly better than expected 1st quarter results on Tuesday, but failed to deliver the blowout quarter that many analysts said it needed to get a higher takeover offer from Microsoft.
Yahoo we down $.19 cents in after hours trading following the report, as the results are seen as not being strong enough for […]

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Here are the domain that sold today at the Domain Round Table show.
Looks like there were some good buys.
What you think??
330.com $23,000
AllergyProblems.com $5,000
Ammunition.cc $200
AmsterdamVacations.com $4,600
AutoDirectory.com $8,200
AutoRespond.com $2,900
BasicInstall.com $400
BigStore.com $6,000
BoundModels.com $250
BusinessRefinance.com $3,100
BuyMedication.com $1,250
Chopstick.com $10,000
CleverLyrics.com $300
CollegePlacement.com $2,000
Complacence.com $1,000
Conf.com $4,200
Cosmetics.net $18,000
CreditScoreTracker.com […]

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The Domain Round Table Auction will be held today starting at 2pm EST.
352 domains will be auctioned off and live remote bidding is avaliable.
You do need to set up an account at domain tools to bid, so if your planning to do so, do it now.
I look for somewhere between 2-3 million in sales.
There are […]

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Having spend a few days in Paradise Island, in the Bahamas, it seems the economy is not a problem everywhere.
In the Marina by the Atlantis hotel, there are no less than 20 mega yachts docked (yachts over 100 Ft).
Actually there is only one vacant space in the whole complex for such a yacht, so if […]

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Notable NameJet.com sales for this week:
soldieroffortune.com   $9,700
nopainnogain.com $9,300
sumtercounty.com    $6,584
writingservices.com $5,600
givingtree.org $5,400 (re-auction)
warfield.com $4,139
mountaintravel.com $3,988
outsourcingservices.com $3,600
mintchocolate.com $2,860
hivdrugs.com      $2,722
negotiated.com   $2,700
myflashresource.com $2,600
bestinsurancequotes.com $2,600
collegenotes.com $2,600
paintingclass.com $2,551
gifter.com $2,500
westerner.com    $2,100
investorshelpline.com $1,410
0h.org      $1,210
cooldudeproductions.com $1,201
smartship.com $1,100
toomany.com 1,009

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The domain Villas.com is at auction at TDNAM by the owner of the domain.
Currently at $15,000, reserve has not been met, with over 5 days to go.
Should be another high flyer.

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