Neowin News Feed for: Doubleclick

Google takes action against ad injectors after 300K complaints from Chrome users

John Devon — Sat, 12 Sep 2015 03:18:01 +0000

In light of Lenovo's “Superfish” scandal, Google is taking action to filter potentially malicious ads presented to Chrome users. Read more...

Reddit will allow users to up/down vote ads

Max Slater-Robins — Sat, 23 Mar 2013 11:26:13 +0000

Reddit are introducing the ability to up vote, or down vote ads depending on their relevancy to you. If an advert is unsuitable, Reddit will hide it if you down vote the ad. Read more...

FTC Clears Google's Acquisition of DoubleClick

Thu, 20 Dec 2007 17:36:53 +0000

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has cleared Google Incorporated of its planned acquisition of DoubleClick Incorporated. In April 2007, the search giant announced plans to acquire the provider of display ad serving technology and services... Read more...

Google sure DoubleClick bid will clear

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 13:13:04 +0000

GOOGLE is confident that its $US3.1 billion ($3.37 billion) bid for online ad tracker DoubleClick will win over European and US regulators, a company executive said - even as advertisers expressed concerns the deal will... Read more...

German watchdog opposes Google purchase of DoubleClick

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 10:59:55 +0000

The proposed $3.1bn merger of search giant Google and online advertising company DoubleClick would lead to "a massive violation of data privacy rights", a German privacy watchdog has warned. The Data Protection Commissioner of the... Read more...

Google CEO expects DoubleClick deal to close this year

Tom Warren — Wed, 30 May 2007 08:38:59 +0000

Internet search leader Google is open to new acquisitions and remains hopeful it can close the $3.1 billion purchase of Web ad supplier DoubleClick by end-2007 despite a U.S. federal probe, its CEO said Wednesday.... Read more...

Google buys DoubleClick so Yahoo buys Right Media

Mon, 30 Apr 2007 21:12:05 +0000

Last October, Yahoo bought 20% of Right Media, which operates an online advertising exchange. Now the internet giant will pay about $680 million in cash and stock for the remainder. The acquisition will extend Yahoo's... Read more...

DoubleClick may have spurned offer from Microsoft

Mon, 23 Apr 2007 13:55:36 +0000

John Battelle, chairman of Federated Media and renowned Google watcher, is claiming that not only was Microsoft interested in DoubleClick, but apparently the advertising giant shunned a better deal from Microsoft and decided to accept... Read more...

Google to buy Doubleclick for $3.1 Billion

Fri, 13 Apr 2007 23:18:38 +0000

Search engine leader Google has announced it will buy top digital marketing services firm DoubleClick for $3.1 billion from private equity firm Hellman & Friedman, which bought DoubleClick for $1.1 billion in 2005. The deal,... Read more...

DoubleClick blacks out from Web attack

Wed, 28 Jul 2004 00:47:48 +0000

DoubleClick has confirmed that an Internet attack crippled its online advertising service Tuesday and caused a widespread outage among its customers. The outage, first noticed at about 7 a.m. PDT, stemmed... Read more...

DoubleClick to settle privacy suits

Sat, 30 Mar 2002 15:56:58 +0000

A federal court on Friday granted DoubleClick preliminary approval to settle all state and federal class-action lawsuits that charged it violated the privacy of Web surfers. The preliminary settlement, set to be... Read more...

DoubleClick discontinues Web tracking service

Fri, 11 Jan 2002 06:20:46 +0000

Web advertising and marketing company DoubleClick Inc. at the end of last year dropped its Intelligent Targeting service, which tracked Web browsing habits with the intention of funneling targeted advertising reflecting a Web viewer's personal... Read more...