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Monday, April 7, 2008 Daily News Tracker
Welcome to the Monday, April 7, 2008 Daily News Tracker, leading off with Yahoo's release of information about its forthcoming AMP online ad system and its ongoing battle with Microsoft, both of which I'll write about in my article today. Other news includes Nielsen buying IAG Research, Facebook's new chatting feature, a $2.6 million domain name sale, a possible Google announcement tonight, and more.


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new post indicator2:31 pm on April 7, 2008 (utc 0)

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Yahoo Reveals Details of Its New AMP Ad Sales System

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/07/business/media/07yahoo1.html
http://yhoo.client.shareholder.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=303352
http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSN0644013720080407
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/06/AR2008040602527.html
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120752905479993751.html
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,144194-c,yahoo/article.html
http://mashable.com/2008/04/06/yahoo-amp/
http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/04/07/Yahoo-previews-online-ad-management-platform_1.html
http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-fi-yahoo7apr07,1,3120459.story
http://news.digitaltrends.com/news/story/16289/yahoo_amps_up_efforts_to_tackle_adwords
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/185025/yahoo-reveals-new-ads-system.html

Yahoo Rejects Microsoft Bid Again

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/07/technology/07cnd-soft.html
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/080407/20080407005551.html
http://yhoo.client.shareholder.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=303369
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120756556963294539.html
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120741922713292671.html
http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSWNAS694820080407
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7334475.stm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2008/04/yahoo_to_microsoft_back_off_ba.html
http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2008/04/07/ap4861066.html
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/techinvestor/industry/2008-04-07-microsoft-yahoo_N.htm
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/8b3e452c-0491-11dd-a2f0-000077b07658.html
http://mashable.com/2008/04/07/yahoo-microsoft-more-money/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/07/yahoo_microsoft_love_letters/
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601204&sid=apwKV7nZS_rE
http://money.cnn.com/2008/04/07/technology/yahoo_response/index.htm
http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/04/07/Yahoo-again-rebuffs-Microsoft-in-letter_1.html
http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-yahoo-responds-our-boards-view-has-not-changed/

Baidu and Other Chinese Firm Face the Music On Downloads / Copyright-infringement Cases

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120751747712893197.html

Microsoft-Yahoo tussle likely to spur Alibaba buyback

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080407/tc_nm/yahoo_microsoft_alibaba_dc

Compete.com March Search Market Share Figures Have Google at 69.4 Percent

http://blog.compete.com/2008/04/04/search-market-share-march-google-msn-live-yahoo-ask-aol/

Google Developer Event Tonight May Bring BigTable Database Announcement

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/04/06/major-google-announcement-monday-evening-is-it-bigtable/

Nielsen Acquires Media Measurement Firm IAG Research For $225 Million

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080407/media_nm/iagresearch_takeover_nielsen_dc
http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-nielsen-acquires-media-measurement-firm-iag/

Google to allow bidding for trademarks

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/apr/05/google.google
http://www.ppcblog.co.uk/google-adwords/google-changing-trademark-policy-in-the-uk/

Google, Yahoo Keep User Data Too Long, EU Group Says

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601204&sid=ag7RcwPxHlYM
http://ec.europa.eu/justice_home/fsj/privacy/docs/wpdocs/rules-art-29_en.pdf (.PDF document)

WEB / OTHER

Amazon Accelerates Its Move to Digital

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/07/technology/07amazon.html
(related) http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/04/07/amazon-web-services-gets-another-hiccup/

Facebook Chat Launches

http://www.insidefacebook.com/2008/04/06/facebook-chat-launches-tour-first-impressions/
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/04/06/facebook-chat-enters-pre-release-beta/
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/facebook_launches_chat.php

US man gets $2.6m for Pizza.com

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7331042.stm
http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2008/04/md-man-makes-hi.html
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/185136/pizza-domain-sold-for-26m.html
http://seoblackhat.com/2008/04/05/pizzacom-stolen-from-some-schlep-for-just-26-million/

Navajo Nation to lose Internet signal

http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/04/04/navajo.internet.ap/index.html

Gmail being throttled, blocked by some anti-spam vendors

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080406-gmail-being-throttled-blocked-by-some-anti-spam-vendors.html

 


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