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| 7:30PM 1/24/2011
Research firm ComScore projects that spending on online-video advertising will more than triple between 2010 and 2015. But that doesn't mean you'll necessarily see more commercials per video. Spending will continue to lag behind the huge growth in online videos, according to ComScore.
| 2:08PM 1/10/2011
Disney is considering lending some of the keys to its television kingdom to Yahoo for its Yahoo Connected TV. If Yahoo is successful in inking such a deal, it would bolster its Internet TV efforts and put on better footing to compete against rival products such as Google TV and Apple TV.
| 8:00PM 12/20/2010
Soon, the Internet won't be the only medium to offer advertisers the ability to closely target specific types of customers. Starting in August or September, DirecTV plans to launch a new personalized advertising service for television. Can it bring the scope of TV to highly targeted ads?
| 10:55AM 12/13/2010
A patent lawsuit brought by Microsoft Co-Founder Paul Allen against Apple, Google, and Yahoo, among others, has been dismissed. The judge found the suit, which failed to specify the products or devices that infringed on patents from Allen's company, too vague.
| 8:30AM 12/08/2010
Among Wednesday's top stories for investors: Why Quepasa is no Facebook, what went wrong with the Fed's new $100 bills and why the Dogs of the Dow strategy might be ready for a comeback.
| 3:55AM 12/02/2010
Japanese authorities gave the OK for Yahoo Japan and Google to partner on a new service in the country as long as the companies continued to remain separate.
| 3:00AM 12/01/2010
Move over, Michael Jackson. The BP oil spill topped the list of most popular Yahoo searches in 2010, ejecting Jackson -- the hottest search in 2009 -- from the top spot. Other top searches included Miley Cyrus, Lady Gaga, Megan Fox, Justin Bieber and American Idol.
| 2:47PM 11/16/2010
Forbes Media is reaching outside the family ranks for the first time to name a new CEO, the company announced Tuesday. Veteran venture capitalist and media executive Mike Perlis will assume his new post Dec. 1, replacing longtime CEO and former presidential candidate Steve Forbes.
| 9:45AM 11/12/2010
Yahoo has denied reports of an impending 20% cut, but the controversy raises the question of whether the company's fourth-quarter performance and year-end results could be worse than Wall Street expects. One thing to watch for the holidays: The ratio of paid ads to Yahoo house ads.
| 10:45PM 11/09/2010
Ask.com is laying off roughly 130 engineers and giving up on its own all-purpose search technology. It plans to go back to its roots of answering simple questions instead of indexing everything on the Web. Its exit leaves only two general search providers: Google and Microsoft.