MicroHoo – The Microsoft Yahoo Takeover Offer

The general consensus is Microsoft’s bid for Yahoo will eventually go through. There is a very interesting take on the Microsoft Yahoo deal at Marketplace while CIO has a good overview titled Microsoft’s Bid for Yahoo. A report in the Financial Times suggests Advertisers welcome prospect of Google rival, by encouraging price competition and improvements in technology. The article points out Google controls search, but in display Yahoo leads. However, Google’s acquisition of DoubleClick will boost display advertising revenues likely to eat into Yahoo’s market share. A Reasonable Valuation For Google from Seekingalpha shows how Google are well positioned to maintain online advertising growth

Google

A new service from Google called Ad manager will be of interest and help advertisers manage their online sales.

iPhone

The excitement Apple created with the release of the SDK is fading with news Apple To Ban SDK Developers From Accessing iPhone Music Features?