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Industry News

Google Acquires DoubleClick for $3.1 Billion

April 14, 2007

Google came to prominence with a “Hate Images, Love Text” campaign. Slowly but steadily, they ventured into “banner” advertising, then “video” advertising, then affiliate programs, and now they have purchased one of the biggest “traditional” online advertisement networks, DoubleClick.
Their huge dependence on their “advertising” model is both exciting and scary at the same time.

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BitTorrent Goes Legit and Launches Movie and TV Downloads

February 26, 2007

From the Wikipedia:
BitTorrent is a peer-to-peer (P2P) file distribution protocol. The protocol was originally designed and created by programmer Bram Cohen, and is now maintained by BitTorrent, Inc.
BitTorrent is a method of distributing large amounts of data widely without the original distributor incurring the whole of the corresponding costs of hardware, hosting and bandwidth resources. [...]

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XM Radio, Sirius announce merger

February 20, 2007

So is this the start of yet another monopoly?
Why hasn’t anyone else gotten into this? It’s not like there are major infrastructure setup pains involved – just buy a darn satellite and start broadcasting – it’s not like it’s hard to do for someone with a lot of cash and people – something that matches [...]

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