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Two consumer groups today asked the Federal Trade Commission to block
Google's $750 million deal to buy AdMob, a mobile advertising company, on
anti-trust grounds. In addition, the groups said, the proposed acquisition
raises privacy concerns that the Commission must address.
In a joint letter to the FTC, Consumer Watchdog and the Center for Digital
Democracy (CDD) said Google is simply buying its way to dominance in the
mobile advertising market, diminishing competition to the detriment of
consumers.
"The mobile sector is the next frontier of the digital revolution. Without
vigorous competition and strong privacy guarantees this vital and growing
segment of the online economy will be stifled," wrote John M. Simpson,
consumer advocate at Consumer... (more)
"Users will continue to experience search as a vital part of their Yahoo!
experiences and will enjoy increased innovation thanks to the scale and
resources this deal provides," sais Yahoo! CEO Carol Bartz, as Yahoo! and
Microsoft today announced an agreement that the companies believe "will
improve the Web search experience for users and advertisers, and deliver
sustained innovation to t... (more)
Awarepoint Corporation, a provider of ZigBee-based real-time location system
(RTLS) solutions to the healthcare market, today announced that Edward J.
Zander has joined the company's board of directors. Zander has spent more
than 35 years in the technology sector. He has played a key role in shaping
some of the major paradigm shifts in technology that impact the world today.
These includ... (more)
All that money that Microsoft will be spending starting July 1 when its new
fiscal year begins - the couple of extra billion and change that sent Wall
Street into a swoon last week - includges $1.1 billion of it targeted at MSN
for R&D, up from $500 million in fiscal '05.
And it's increasing its capital equipment spending from $100 million in
fiscal '05 to $500 million, so it can play tag ... (more)
That anti-Microsoft pair, IBM and Google, are kicking in $20 million-$25
million apiece for hardware, software and services to spread the gospel of
"cloud computing" in the academe.
They want budding computer scientists to learn how to write Internet-scale
programs that process trillions of secure transactions a day and master
massively parallel computing skills.
The University of Washing... (more)
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