AOL to acquire online ad firm TACODA
When Google goes and buys DoubleClick and Yahoo! responds by purchasing Right Media, what does that leave for companies like AOL? How about behavioral-targetting ad firm TACODA?Today AOL (this blog's parent company) announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire TACODA. AOL plans to use TACODA's targeted advertising technology to extend its own ad network. TACODA currently serves up ads for about 4,000 websites reaching over 125 million users.
Terms of the deal haven't been disclosed, but the New York Post reports that AOL could be paying from $200 to $300 million for TACODA.
I don't know if this is a labor of love or merely the brainchild of four very gifted games designers, but Level Up is a really weird mash-up of gaming elements that you have probably never seen in a Flash game before.
Let's start with the premise itself: Groundhog Day meets Memento. The game experience revolves around 'days': you explore the world and the clock slowly ticks towards the evening. You bounce around picking up gems and talking to the denizens of 'Level Upland'. Eventually you feel tired and head back to ...
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Enrique said 2:45PM on 7-24-2007
Don't forget that Microsoft bought aQuantitative (who owns Avenue A | Razorfish - an interactive marketing firm)
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