The big money speculators hovering over Carl Icahn’s pending proxy fight with Yahoo could have other companies in their sights.

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Compare and contrast Google and Yahoo, and their respective user bases. Especially the stark contrast in how much people spend and which search engines draw their traffic.

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eBay’s $310 million acquisition of ticket reselling site StubHub presents the potential of additional expenses, as the City of Chicago demanded payment of amusement taxes on tickets sold for Chicago events.

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A year over year look at first quarter spending in 2007 and 2008 showed online display advertising gaining well. The rest of the media industry…not so much.

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Shades of Office Space! Someone’s used the Internet to stick it to a couple of financial companies, a few cents at a time.

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Bookselling chain decides competing with Amazon.com on book sales will be a better prospect than the now-ended partnership with the online retailing giant.

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Any potential broadening of an advertising pact with Google likely posed a threat of pervasive antitrust investigations by the Department of Justice.

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We take a shot at making a quality, human-edited directory of useful sites for our visitors.

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Video site Revision3 suffered a crippling denial of service attack over the Memorial Day weekend, an attack MediaDefender not only admitted to Revision3 CEO Jim Louderback.

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Despite their significant holdings of networking capability, Google won’t try to pump up the Clearwire mobile WiMax project beyond search and advertising.Google as super-cheap, efficient, dynamic wireless Internet service network provider? Fuggedaboutit wise guy.Unstrung said Clearwire won’t be able to touch Google’s “dark fiber,” networking capacity the company has yet to light up and use:“At […]

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Norwegian browser maker Opera Software said in its ‘State of the Mobile Web’ report that nearly 40 percent of global mobile web traffic hits the likes of MySpace and Facebook. It’s even higher in the United States.

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Multiple listings services and their handling by realtors led the Department of Justice to challenge the National Association of Realtors, leading to a settlement after nearly 4 years of legal back-and-forth.

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Though antitrust worries may keep Yahoo from doing a deal with search giant Google, there’s nothing to keep them from working a new deal with global retail Wal-Mart for its web properties.

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Paul McGuinness stumbled into the find of a lifetime in discovering U2 and becoming the megastar band’s manager. He now he’s raging about the commoditization of music and blaming Internet service providers for it. We chuckle after the jump.

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First Ask.com stated an interest in being more female-focused. Yahoo followed that up with Shine, which formally launched today, and video site SheZoom announced its debut as the first video site for women.

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Fears of Internet piracy could persuade writers to cease creating new works, one group claims. We have our own claim, and it rhymes with full snit.

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The 404 page can be more than a bit of blank space vomited back at the browser. It’s an opportunity to brand, and to link people to existing content on a website.

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Comcast has agreed to stop the traffic shaping of BitTorrent connections and work with the company to find common ground on rich media distribution and network capacity management.

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As an independent company, Rapt picked up clients like Fox Interactive Media, Yahoo, and AOL/Tacoda as well as MSN. We’re sure MSN will stick around.

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As small businesses really start spending for local online ads over the next few years, they should push revenue for local ads alone to what the total market is today for all online advertising.

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Users of Google’s Webmaster Central tools have access to an effective module for creating robots.txt files for their sites.

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Google spent $3.24 billion on DoubleClick, and they share a need with display advertiser clients a way to determine the true value for ads.

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The sports network won’t use advertising networks to fill in the gaps in its remnant inventory.

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Google tried to run an end-around on a German trademark holder of the Gmail name by seeking a European Union trademark for it.

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The ecosystem for greater search information in Yahoo’s results picked up steam with a couple of new details revealed about the platform.

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Social media news is all the rage today, as Yahoo signed on with Google and MySpace for the OpenSocial initiative, while Microsoft and partners Facebook and Bebo tout contact data portability.

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New search system could take eBay searchers away from accessory sellers.

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What does nearly a quarter of a trillion dollars of market capitalization buy these days? How about not even a percentage of all the world’s information. I knew the dollar was having problems against other currencies, but this is ridiculous. (Yes I know market cap isn’t the same as liquid funds, I’m trying to make […]

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The New York Daily News is the fifth largest paper in the US, and will join both Yahoo’s general consortium and the HotJobs group. Classified Intelligence just dropped this hot little tidbit into the inbox. The Daily News recently passed Rupert Murdoch’s New York Post for top circulation in the metropolitan area, which both Yahoo […]

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Richard Ball hasn’t been happy with Google for several months. Now he claims they are charging advertisers for paid search clicks, but without a search taking place first to generate the ads that get clicked.We’ve asked Google to comment on the situation Ball described on his blog post, but have yet to receive a response. […]

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