Doubleclick

DoubleClick Layoffs Begin, Headhunters Rejoice

Silicon Alley Insider | Peter Kafka | Posted 04.02.2008 | Business


The DoubleClick layoffs have begun, a tipster tells us, and will continue through tomorrow. We're also told that Google (GOOG) intends to fire some Do...

Google Wraps Up $3.1B DoubleClick Deal

AP | MICHAEL LIEDTKE | Posted 03.11.2008 | Business


SAN FRANCISCO — Google Inc.'s long-anticipated acquisition of online ad service DoubleClick Inc. is expected to turn the Internet search leader ...

EU Close To Approving Google's DoubleClick Deal

Bloomberg | Matthew Newman | Posted 02.08.2008 | Business


Google Inc. hasn't received formal objections from European Union regulators about its proposed $3.1 billion purchase of DoubleClick Inc., three peopl...

Delay And Derail

New York Times | STEPHEN LABATON and MIGUEL HELFT | Posted 02.05.2008 | Business


It could be payback time. An expensive legal and political campaign last year by Microsoft helped delay completion of Google's $3.1 billion bid for t...

Microsoft vs. Google And The Battle To Control The Future Of $400 Billion In Advertising Spending A Year

Derek Reisfield | Posted 02.04.2008 | Business


Derek Reisfield

Clearly a Microsoft-Yahoo combination will change the game in a major way. But this is not the beginning of the contest, nor is it the end. It is a major milestone and turning point in the battle.

Google Addresses Charges It Has Too Much Power

New Yorker | Ken Auletta | Posted 01.07.2008 | Business


In June, 2006, Sergey Brin, one of the co-founders of Google, went to Washington, D.C., hoping to create a little good will. Google was something of a...

Looking Back: The Year In Google

GigaOm | Om Malik | Posted 12.23.2007 | Business


Looking back at 2007, we will remember it as a year Google finally grew up and showed its true colors. Sure there was Facebook and all the hoopla arou...

Regulators OK Google's Purchase Of Doubleclick

AP | CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER | Posted 12.20.2007 | Business


U.S. antitrust regulators approved Google Inc.'s $3.1 billion purchase of DoubleClick Inc. Thursday, removing a key obstacle to a formidable combinati...

EU To Probe Google Deal

BBC News | Posted 11.13.2007 | Business


European Union regulators have launched an in-depth investigation into Google's $3.1bn (£1.5bn) takeover of online advertising firm DoubleClick. The...