Microsft, Yahoo and MSN Lose Bets to US Government
Posted December 20, 2007
Within a week of the US locking foreigners out of its online gambling market, the three biggest search companies - Google, Yahoo and Microsoft - have all decided to settle with the US Goverment on cases regarding the promotion of online gambling, which is illegal in the US. The total amount forfeited was $31 million - much of which was in the form of advertising credit. (more…)
Adobe and Yahoo have made a deal to allow publishers to sell ad space in PDF documents and advertisers to place dynamic ads inside those documents. The advertisers pay to get their ads in the documents and then a percentage of this is passed on to the publisher. 
