Skip to Content

Free TUAW iPhone app -- try it now!
AOL Tech

adecn posts

Filed under: Internet, News, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo!, AOL

Microsoft buys another ad network

AdECNIn the ongoing struggle for online advertising dominance, Microsoft has picked up AdECN, an online advertising exchange. No word on how much Gates and company paid for the company, but the move comes just two months after Microsoft paid $6 billion for advertiser aQuantive.

So let's see if we can keep this straight now:
Are we leaving anybody out? And doesn't it give you a warm fuzzy feeling to be reminded periodically that the biggest players in online media companies are more interested in selling you things than providing useful services.

Featured Time Waster

The World's Hardest Game 2.0 - Time Waster

So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do. Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game. The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...

View more Time Wasters

Featured Galleries

Defective by Design, London: Protest Pictures
Livescribe Store
Microsoft Security Essentials
Chromium Pre-Alpha on CrunchBang Linux
Safari 4 Beta
10 Firefox themes that don't suck
IE8 RC1
Download Squad at the Crunchies After-Party
Download Squad at the Crunchies
WordPress 2.7
Cooking Mama: Mama Kills Animals
Windows 7 Hands On
Comodo Internet Security
Android First-look: Amazon.com MP3 Store
Android First-look: Twitroid
Google Reader Android
Android Hands-On
Twine 1.0
Photoshop Express Beta
Mozilla Birthday Cake
Palm stuff

 


Follow us on Twitter!

Flickr Pool

www.flickr.com

More Tech Coverage

AOL Radio