According to a report by the Wall Street Journal today, Yahoo and Microsoft met Wednesday trying to reach an agreement on price for Microsoft's acquisition of Yahoo According to the report, Microsoft, which proposed purchasing Yahoo for for $31 a share in January, is now allegedly poised to offer as much as $32 or $33 a share. However according to the report major Yahoo shareholders are still … [Read more...]
Archives for April 2008
Yahoo-Microsoft: 5 days after Deadline, Things are Very Quite
Last Saturday marked the deadline that Microsoft imposed on Yahoo several weeks ago to accept its buyout offer or Microsoft would launch a hostile take over. Microsoft declared it would launch a proxy fight to oust Yahoo's board or walk away from the deal if the two failed to reach an agreement by April 26. So far there has been no word for Microsoft and on Tuesday a spokesman said Tuesday … [Read more...]
Marchex Goes Mobile
Marchex announced today that it has extended its local advertising strategy to the mobile market, entering into agreements to provide call based advertising services to three leading mobile advertising providers: AdMob, Ringleader Digital and 4INFO. Marchex’s VoiceStar subsidiary will deliver call tracking services to all three companies, enabling them to … [Read more...]
Moniker Publishes TRAFFIC Auction List Preview
Moniker.com published a list of some of the name that will be auctioned off at the TRAFFIC conference in May in Orlando. Here are the domains they have announced for the Live auction: Israel.com, Pay.com, Jackpot.com, Athlete.com and Hoodia.com are among the top names scheduled to be included in the Moniker Live Domain Auction to be held at the TRAFFIC East event on May 20-24 in … [Read more...]
Need a Job: Tucows is looking for an “Associate Domainer”
In the last several weeks some blogs have dedicated posts questioning whether Tucows was warehousing some of their expired domains instead of letting them drop into their auction system. Guess the debate is over as Tucows announced today that they were hiring someone for the job. According to Tucows blog they are looking to fill the position of "Associate Domainer" In their annoucement … [Read more...]
Old Media Invests in New Media
Cox Enterprises Inc., an old media company which owns television stations and newspaper bought a New Media company startup today for $300 million, in a all cash deal. Cox bought Adify Corp.,whose technology platform helps Web sites more successfully sell higher priced ads targeted to specific audiences, such as parents or travel enthusiasts, keeping brand name advertisers from going to Google … [Read more...]
LH.com UDRP, Bad Decision, Bad Language
As reported by Elliot today, Lufthansa airlines won a UDRP case over the domain LH.com. Lufthansa relied on a a german common law trademark whcih they said was established in 1945. However the airline did not file for an actual trademark on the term LH until 1999. The domain was acquired by the current holder in 2004. First let me note that it was a three panel decision and the vote was … [Read more...]