Biz Dev in NYC by Rob Tsai

Steve Rubel at Micro Persuasion and Pete Cashmore at Mashable have covered the news that Google is now embedding its widgets (Google Gadgets) within search results (if the searcher has opted to subscribe to those widgets).
Writes Steve:
Right now there are only a handful of gadgets you can sign up for. All of them are from […]

Hot on the heals of Google’s acquisition of Doubleclick, Yahoo! announced its $680 million purchase for the 80% of Right Media that it did not previously own.
Charlene Li at Forrester has an interesting take on the deal, noting that the exchange layer of the online ad ecosystem is more attractive than the delivery engine layer.
 
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Ashkan at Hipmojo writes:
But with this Google/DCLK deal, Google buys the ad serving platform from DCLK, and not a network… after all, DCLK got out of the display/banner network business when it sold off that unit to L90’s MaxOnline. MaxOnline subsequently was sold to Ask Jeeves, today a part of InterActive Corp.
Though Doubleclick has […]

During the Friday conference call announcing Google’s $3.1 billion purchase price for Doubleclick, several analysts tried to get information from Google on how they arrived at the valuation, including asking for forward looking and historical revenue and EBITDA for Doubleclick’s business.
Google preferred not to comment on Doubleclick’s standalone performance, except to say that they foresee […]

Alex Iskold writes, and Richard Macmanus edits, a great article on “The Race to Beat Google.”   They reference Emre Sokullu’s earlier post that breaks down the Search arms race in three areas:

Better Technology
Better User Interface
Vertical Search

Here’s their chart on the competitors for Google’s lunch:

The NY Times article “In Silicon Valley, the Race Is On […]