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Federal Trade Commissioner Pamela Jones Harbour has always been a thorn in the side of the online ad industry.

SM: When you left Time Warner, you said you joined a dot-com. What did that entail? DD: I became CFO for a company out of Hong Kong that was in the online advertising business.

Created with the assistance of Google and DoubleClick, SmartADS is the first solution in the world to enable automated ad streaming into digital editions using flash in flash technology and full integration with ad serving engines.

Google has tapped an internal candidate, Lexi Reese, to oversee advertiser and publisher sales for its fledgling DoubleClick Ad Exchange.

Google's acquisition of display advertising startup Teracent yesterday had significant meaning for rival Tumri; the San Mateo-based advertising platform now counts tech giant Google as a competitor.

's gobbling up another advertising company, the search giant has announced. Google will acquire Teracent , a Silicon Valley startup specializing in "intelligent display advertising." Yep -- that means more online ads customized specifically for your visit.

By Mike Abundo Posted on November 24, 2009 If the big honking banner ads on your favorite sites suddenly get less annoying over the coming months, here's why: Google is buying display advertising startup Teracent .

If anyone doubted Google was serious about online display advertising , those doubts surely were quashed today.

Defying the economic gloom, a new investment network founded by former staff from the likes of Google, DoubleClick and Yahoo! is on the hunt for digital media start-ups in which to invest.

It's been two and a half years since Google acquired digital marketplace DoubleClick for $3.1B. Over that time, they've gotten approval for the deal, made it official and merged their technologies more and more closely.

When Google CEO Eric Schmidt mentioned a few weeks ago that the M&A spigot is now back on at the search giant, he wasn't talking about a trickle.

Mountain View-based Google Inc. is stepping up its push to sell advertising on cell phones, announcing a deal Monday to buy a mobile ad network, AdMob of San Mateo, for $750 million in stock.

Will Google's deal with Admob invite antitrust concerns? November 9, 2009 Paul Boutin Google announced its acquisition of mobile display-ad company AdMob today.

Google Inc. is stepping up its push to sell advertising on cell phones and other mobile gadgets.

Google Inc. is stepping up its push to sell advertising on cell phones, announcing a deal Monday to buy a mobile ad network, AdMob, for $750 million in stock.

As part of the funding, Chip Hazard, a general partner with Flybridge Capital Partners, will join the company's Board of Directors, which includes Union Square Ventures General Partner, Albert Wenger along with 10gen founders Dwight Merriman, Eliot Horowitz and Kevin Ryan.

Rajeev Goel, CEO of upstart PubMatic, thinks his company can help print publishers recapture advertising revenue from their glory days.

Written by Bernard Lunn / November 2, 2009 11:05 AM / It's called a spoiler tactic.

"Googled: The End of the World as We Know It" , by Ken Auletta. Google is best understood in terms of billions.

Silicon Valley is known the world over for its acceptance of failure as a rite of passage.