Any Yahoo-AOL deal unlikely before Aug 1: source

July 8th, 2008 by Marius Visan (0) Internet

Any deal between Yahoo Inc and Time Warner Inc’s AOL division would be unlikely to be struck before Yahoo’s annual meeting on August 1, a person familiar with the negotiations said on Monday.Yahoo and AOL have been talking about merging their Internet operations for a few months, but the talks now factor in the expected [...]

Google social network ad business “improving”: Brin

May 16th, 2008 by Marius Visan (0) Internet

Google Inc co-founder Sergey Brin said on Thursday advertising on social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace was getting better, but was still not perfect.“In general, it’s been improving but we still have a long way to go,” Brin told reporters on the sidelines of a conference in Jerusalem to mark Israel’s 60th anniversary.
“Things [...]