Google Not Giving Up On VoIP - Just a few weeks after Google announced that they would pull the Click to Call service from Google Maps, Anthony J. Cataldo, chairman and CEO of VoIP, Inc., told CEOcast today that his company’s technology is still working with Google.
Amazon To Hold BabyUniverse Content - BabyUniverse is growing up. The e-commerce and online content company said Amazon.com has agreed to offer some of its content through the Amazon Baby marketplace. BabyUniverse is growing up. The e-commerce and online content company said Amazon.com has agreed to offer some of its content through the Amazon Baby marketplace.
Google Loses Top China Executive - Google Inc. said on Friday that a top executive in China has resigned. Vice President Jimmy Chou, who is also Google’s Greater China co-president in charge of sales and business development, is leaving as of Dec. 31, the Mountain View-based Internet search giant (NASDAQ:GOOG – News) said.
Expedia to Buy Back Up to 30M Shares - Shares of travel web site operator Expedia Inc. surged Friday on the company’s plans to buy back up to 30 million shares in a tender offer priced between $18.50 to $22 each. The buyback represents up to 9.8 percent of outstanding shares, and 9.1 percent of outstanding Class B common stock. It becomes effective Dec. 11, and will expire on Jan. 10, 2007.
ValueClick Acquires Shopping.net - ValueClick, Inc. (Nasdaq:VCLK – News) today announced that it has acquired Shopping.net, a privately-held company based in London, for approximately $13.3 million in cash, net of cash acquired. Shopping.net owns and operates 27 websites that provide comparison shopping, search and vertical market content to European online consumers.
Reed Business Information To Acquire BuyerZone.com - B2B MEDIA FIRM REED BUSINESS Information has agreed to acquire BuyerZone.com, an online lead generation company, which connects buyers and sellers in categories including office and industrial equipment, telecom, technology, human resources, and financial services. The acquisition is expected to finalize in the beginning of January.
SF’s Clickshift, Sausalito’s Newgate - Web analytics’ WebTrends has acquired online ad optimization provider ClickShift for an un-disclosed amount. ClickShift sells marketing optimization tools for multivariate testing of CPC campaigns. Additionally, Arizona-based Search Engine Marketing agency iCrossing bought Newgate Internet, a paid search, reputation management, and word-of-mouth agency. Newgate boasts of ties to Williams-Sonoma, The Gap and Lego.
BitTorrent Acquires BT Client uTorrent - BitTorrent, rich from a major round of funding, has bought a BitTorrent lightweight client uTorrent. Probably a small deal. The Wired post speculates: The merger means that many of BitTorrent’s patented delivery innovations will be rolled into the µTorrent client.
Amazon Is The Sole Investor In Wikia’s Second Round; Wikia Acquires ArmchairGM - It’s a shift from the crowd that invested in the$4 million first round earlier this year from a group including angel investors, Bessemer Venture Partners and Omidyar Network. Part of Wikia’s round (amount undisclosed) includes the purchase of the sports community site, ArmchairGM for more than $2 million, underscoring how Wikia is having to reach out to acquire talent and technology. Wikia says it will use the ArmChairGM technology to help it incorporate user-generated news and voting into future Wikia fan sites.
MediaWhiz Has Acquired Online Media Promotions LLC (a.k.a. Monetizeit) - MediaWhiz, a rapidly growing provider of performance-based online marketing services, today announced it has acquired Atlanta-based Online Media Promotions, LLC, which is known in the industry as Monetizeit. This acquisition expands MediaWhiz’s online marketing services platform to give it deep expertise in a number of lead generation vertical markets, including insurance and financial services.
