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.

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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 […]

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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
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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.

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