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.

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, ...
