Google’s Chief Economist: “Newspapers Have Never Made Much Money From News”
Google chief economist Hal Varian gave a presentation to an FTC workshop on the changing economics of the newspaper industry. (TechCrunch) Read more...
Google Tweaks DoubleClick's Ad Server
Google has released a new version of DoubleClick's core ad serving product for publishers (Source: ClickZ) Read more...
Google unveils service to manage online ads
Google announced on Monday that it's launching a new service called DoubleClick for Publishers to help Web content creators in their advertising endeavors. (So Read more...
Google News to Publishers: Let's Make Love Not War
In the view of some traditional media execs, Google is a digital vampire or a parasite or tech tapeworm using someone else's content to profit (Source: MediaShi Read more...
Google Economist Explains Why You Won't Pay For Online News
Google economist Hal Varian gave a primer on the economists of news last night to a standing-room-only audience (Source: SF Weekly) Read more...
German news publishers file complaint against Google
Germany's newspaper and magazine publisher associations, the VDZ and BDZV, have filed a complaint with the country's Federal Cartel Office against US internet g Read more...
France Ponders “Google Tax” on Online Advertising
.. in an effort to support publishing and media industries hurt by online content distribution (Source: Digital Trends) Read more...
Telegraph, Independent and Express join Google's news experiment Fast Flip
Google's visual approach to news and aggregating has attracted new partners – among them three national UK newspapers (Source: Guardian) Read more...
French court fines Google for scanning books
A Paris court has fined Google 300,000 euros for digitizing thousands of French books and infringement of copyright. (Source: Deutsche Welle) Read more...
Google investing for growth in display ads
executives said the company experienced very strong growth in its display advertising business in the first three quarters of the year and it will continue to i Read more...
