ZoomInfo today launched its Business Information Search Engine, a service that offers information on more than 3.5 million companies. Although the company profiles are similar to those offered by Hoovers.com and other subscription-based providers, ZoomInfo business profiles are free. The profiles also differ in how they’re compiled. While most business information providers laboriously compile information […]
Google joins race to buy DoubleClick: report from MarketWatch reports that Google is now interested in buying DoubleClick, a provider of internet ad serving software. Now that Google is vying against Microsoft for DoubleClick, the estimates on the purchase price have jumped “beyond $2 billion.” Other potential buyers include Yahoo and AOL. More discussion covered […]
I had lunch with Ask CEO Jim Lanzone last Thursday when he was here in the UK, and I’ve been itching to tell the news he gave me under embargo. Now it’s up, with Jim himself sharing the announcement in video. Kevin Federline’s Search With Kevin service is being acquired and merged with Ask, to […]
With the Google Phone rumors quashed this week, Searcharazzi was pleased to get a taste of this schematic of a semantic visual search engine purportedly by Nokia. More on that from SEL’s dedicated local and mobile gurus. In the interim, we would be remiss to omit the big rumor of the week: DoubleClick is reportedly […]
A quick heads-up on two new Google acquisitions. First, Google has announced the purchase of Gapminder’s Trendalyzer software. Second, it confirms the purchase of Adscape Media, an in-game advertising company, following rumors of a buy last month.
Spotted via Resource Shelf, Google has released its annual report (more precisely, Securities & Exchange Commission form 10-K), with financials for the year, and a list of all of the company’s subsidiaries, as well as details of Google’s merger agreement with radio advertising placement firm dMarc. The subsidiaries list is particularly interesting because it discloses […]
TechCrunch speculates that voice services and mobile local search provider TellMe is going to be sold to Microsoft. Right now this is unconfirmed rumor. But it would be a very interesting acquisition for Microsoft, and addition to their mobile local search/voice assets, if true. I’ve written more about this on my blog. And here’s previous […]