Its official. Google has acquired Youtube in a $1.65 billion stock-for-stock deal. The company had a analyst call today at 1.30pm PST. The webcast is available at http://investor.google.com/webcast.html It will be interesting to watch how Google Video and YouTube will be integrated. This acquisition also means that Google will possibly increase its emphasis on Video [...]
Ingenio signed a deal with MSN yesterday to place pay-per-call ads on MSN search service for mobile devices. Ingenio’s service enables advertisers to set-up pay-per-call ads. A pay-per-call ad is one where the user is connected to the call center rep when he clicks on the ad.With this deal, Ingenio seems to be strengthening its [...]
With the impending $1.6 billion acquisition of YouTube, Google is set to become the biggest behemoth in the online video space. TechCrunch and NY Times has reported that the deal may be announced tonite. Google video now has a 10% share while YouTube has a 46% share. If the deal goes through, Google will have [...]
