Posted by Vikrant
Business
Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

AOL has announced a deal with Verizon under which Platform-A will manage Verizon’s online ad inventory. Under the deal, Verizon will get to use Platform-A’s sales force, along with its ad-serving, targeting, and inventory management capabilities. This deal is a major success for Platform-A which is a the centerpiece of AOL’s restructuring. Apart from online [...]
Posted by Vikrant
Business
Monday, April 7th, 2008

Brightcove has partnered with a long list of social networks and social apps providers which includes Bebo, Meebo, RockYou, Slide and Veoh for distribution of video content to the users of these services. Brightcove is one of the most popular Internet TV platform which allows its users to create, manage, distribute and monetize the video [...]
Posted by Vikrant
Business
Monday, April 7th, 2008

Amidst lots of guess work from the blogosphere about how will Yahoo respond to Microsoft, a letter has been sent out to Microsoft from the Yahoo’s Board of Directors and CEO Jerry Yang. As anticipated by the blogosphere, the letter mentions that: They will not let Microsoft acquire the company at this value Yahoo is [...]
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Business
Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

According to Reuters, Alibaba.com is seeking investments to buy out Yahoo’s stake in the company. Yahoo had merged its Chinese operations with Alibaba in 2005 and got a 39% stake in return. The move by Alibaba is an indicator of two facts: Alibaba believes that Microsoft will be able to acquire Yahoo. Alibaba is [...]