Business Issues: Acquisitions & Investments
TapClicks buys AdStage to expand marketing intelligence, predictive campaign optimization capabilities
The companies share a vision of a unified marketing platform. AdStage founder will head up intelligence...
Moz acquires STAT Search Analytics
Seattle-based Moz has acquired Vancouver, Canada-based STAT Search Analytics for an undisclosed sum. The acquisition is the most recent in a...
Elite SEM acquires CPC Strategy with an eye toward growing its Amazon practice
The e-commerce-focused agency has more than 125 employees and a proprietary retail search advertising optimization...
Stone Temple Consulting has been acquired by Perficient
Stone Temple and its roughly 60 employees will continue to operate out of its Boston office....
Dex Media acquires YP Holdings to expand its SMB marketing automation platform
New company, to be called DexYP, says it will keep YP.com local search directory...
Is Yahoo Testing Non-Bing Powered Search Results?
Yahoo says they are always experimenting with search but would not confirm or deny reports that they are testing dropping Bing powered search...
Microsoft & Getty Images Announce Partnership & Drop Infringement Lawsuit Over Bing Images
On Monday, Getty Images dropped their lawsuit against Bing Images and on Tuesday they signed a new partnership deal with...
Covario To Be Acquired By Dentsu Aegis Network, Rio SEO To Remain Independent
Covario, one of the very large search marketing agencies in the US with over 220* employees, has announced they will be acquired by Dentsu Aegis...
HubPages Acquires Squidoo: Content Migration To Begin Within A Few Weeks
Seth Godin, the founder and owner of Squidoo, announced the social content platform, has been acquired by HubPages. Squidoo was founded back in...
Trada Secures Additional $9M In Funding From Google Ventures & Foundry Group
Trada, the crowdsourced PPC marketplace, has secured an additional $9 million in funding from their existing investors, Google Ventures and...
Acquisio Acquires ClickEquations & Partners With Channel Intelligence
Acquisio, provider of automated tools for search, display and social advertising, has acquired the ClickEquations search marketing platform from...
Adobe To Acquire Digital Marketing Agency Efficient Frontier
Adobe has agreed to acquire digital marketing agency Efficient Frontier, which has a strong search marketing practice and technology to manage...
How Google Could Have Bought Baidu And Other Fascinating Details About China’s Largest Search Engine
BusinessWeek has published a terrific and lengthy article on Chinese search engine Baidu, how it “won” China and its global...
Micro-Hoo: The Details Emerge With SEC Filing
First to pounce on the SEC 8-K filing by Yahoo was PaidContent, which provides an extensive bulleted list of many of the deal terms not revealed...
Bing + Yahoo: What Does It Mean For Users?
The deal is done. Microsoft has swallowed Yahoo search whole and we can all be put out of our long, lingering misery. Yahoo has given up on...
Search Marketing Firm, Conductor, Raises $10 Million
Conductor, a search marketing firm, has announced they have raised $10 million in funding from Matrix Partners and FirstMark Capital. This is...
Search Marketing Firm, Marin Software, Raises Additional $13 Million
paidContent.org reports Marin Software, a search marketing company, has raised an additional $13 million venture capital. The primary source of...
Firefox Drops Google For Yandex In Russia, But Big Loser May Be Rambler
Mozilla’s General Counsel, Harvey Anderson, announced the Russian builds of Firefox 3.1 will drop Google for Yandex. He explained that...