Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt has squashed talk that the company will combine its Android and Chrome divisions, after recent boardroom shuffles had fueled speculation that a merger was on the cards.
It was following the merger that Vringo received the patents involved in the current lawsuits. Microsoft has become the latest company to face a suit from Vringo subsidiary Innovate/Protect (I/P) engine over search patents.
This merger represents a significant shift for SEO practitioners which started early last year and will continue to evolve. However, New Year’s resolutions might imply that what you were doing last year was wrong.
So when a new merger or industry event breaks, we can immediately look at our past research and provide opinion on why this is happening, or whether it is a good or a bad thing,” Kucera said. Market surveys can be a rich source of unique, original...
JC: Ed, I’ve been talking to the guys at FullContact, and thought I’d catch up with you to learn what’s happened since the merger – and how your company is now going about helping others to leverage social media?
Do you think people can adapt current technologies to account for this shift or is investment (via acquisition or merger) essential due to the resource, cost, and scope of scalability in building SEO technology that converges with social, content...
Woodside has been overseeing the $12.5 billion merger, which recently was cleared in the U.S.and EU.via Bloomberg) Google will reportedly promote one of its own executives to CEO of Motorola. Meanwhile, Google has hired a veteran lobbyist and lost...
Antitrust authorities in the U.S.and Europe have been hesitant to sign off on the proposed merger. Google's proposed acquisition of Motorola Mobility could soon be approved by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), sources told the Wall Street Journal.
Many smaller SEO and social media companies sharing resources via merger and acquisition. Although the report states that search will lose some share from 55 percent today to 44 percent of all interactive spend in 2016, it also states that...
Word of the merger comes as Twitter faces increased competition from rival social networking paltforms. Twitter has agreed to acquire news aggregator startup Summify to boost its news management capabilities.
The Merger Thus Far Motorola also seems to see benefit; earlier this month, Motorola's shareholders overwhelmingly approved the merger. Google's buyout of Motorola Mobility is already under scrutiny from the U.S.
Shareholders who voted supported the Google merger almost unanimously, with 99 percent approving the deal. Among those that voted, less than 1 percent voted against the merger. There is an established history of blocking mergers in the U.S...
The announcement of the merger was done months ago, but I know most people are now looking for alternatives. With the demise of Yahoo Site Explorer today, SEOs and online marketers will be wondering where to go now for free access to the invaluable...
November 17, 2011 is the date Motorola Mobility stockholders will vote on the company's acquisition by Google for $12.5 billion, or $40 a share, TechCrunch reported. Shareholders who held stock on October 11 will get to vote.
The Street notes a merger between AOL and Yahoo is also being discussed, with AOL CEO Tim Armstrong touted as the overall CEO (AOL-Yahoo merger speculation is hardly new, and Yahoo quickly debunked this rumor last month).
Last month, Search Engine Watch reported the merger of Microsoft Webmaster Tools and Yahoo Site Explorer. Bing recently announced new features to its Webmaster Tools that will show traffic stats from Yahoo directly in the Webmaster Tools reports.
He has testified on the DoubleClick merger in 2007 and a year later about the Yahoo ad deal. Answering the call of the U.S. Senate antitrust subcommittee, Google will have Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt to testify on their behalf.
A study released by Berkery Noyes examines the acquisition and merger tendencies of the online and mobile industry. Berkery Noyes, which has claimed the title of "leading independent investment bank specializing in the information content and...
IAB Europe Expands Through EIAA Merger - ClickZ Advertising industry self regulation empowered by merger. With the new Search Engine Watch design we have retired the name SearchDay for our newsletters, which are now called SEW Daily and SEW Weekly.
At a certain point though, you need to step back from your own individual frustration (and don't get me wrong, I have them too- it took me five months to fix DGD's listings on Marketplace after the merger) and start to ask a larger question- how...
