http://www.wikio.com/search=Michael Liedtke Wikio - Michael Liedtke http://www.wikio.com/search/Michael+Liedtke?rinfoid=62571295 NEW YORK - Yahoo Inc. began pressing a case to major shareholders yesterday that the company's board and management deserve a chance to prove they made the right move when they rejected a $47.5 billion takeover offer from Microsoft Corp. Tue, 01 Jul 2008 07:01:00 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Michael+Liedtke?rinfoid=62571295 2008-07-01T07:01:00Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Michael+Liedtke?rinfoid=62007835 SAN FRANCISCO - Oracle Corp. breezed past analysts' expectations in its fiscal fourth quarter, providing another sign of the technology industry's vitality despite the listless U.S. economy. Thu, 26 Jun 2008 07:01:00 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Michael+Liedtke?rinfoid=62007835 2008-06-26T07:01:00Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Michael+Liedtke?rinfoid=61756848 Running a small business? Now you can use Visa’s Facebook application to connect with other small businesses. Visa also threw in a bonus for good measure: the first 20,000 business owners to sign up will get $100 in Facebook advertising credit. AP reports that Visa has invested $2 million in advertising and starting this Facebook [...] Tue, 24 Jun 2008 12:23:01 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Michael+Liedtke?rinfoid=61756848 2008-06-24T12:23:01Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Michael+Liedtke?rinfoid=60834525 By MICHAEL LIEDTKE SAN FRANCISCO -- Yahoo Inc.'s efforts to revive takeover talks with Microsoft Corp. have reached a dead end, a development that set the stage for the Internet pioneer to turn over a piece of its advertising platform to online search leader Google Inc. Mon, 16 Jun 2008 20:00:17 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Michael+Liedtke?rinfoid=60834525 2008-06-16T20:00:17Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Michael+Liedtke?rinfoid=60695095 Google grows stronger in Microsoft-Yahoo fallout By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP via mywire (june 13) Google won in every possible way. Of interest: "Google currently has about 75 percent of the U.S. search advertising market followed by Yahoo at 9 percent,... Sun, 15 Jun 2008 17:53:54 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Michael+Liedtke?rinfoid=60695095 2008-06-15T17:53:54Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Michael+Liedtke?rinfoid=60630029 By MICHAEL LIEDTKE, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SAN FRANCISCO Yahoo! Inc.'s efforts to revive takeover talks with Microsoft Corp. have reached a dead end, setting the stage for the Internet pioneer to turn over a piece of its advertising platform to online search leader Google Inc. Sat, 14 Jun 2008 20:00:00 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Michael+Liedtke?rinfoid=60630029 2008-06-14T20:00:00Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Michael+Liedtke?rinfoid=60584662 SAN FRANCISCO | Microsoft Corp.'s abandoned takeover bid for Yahoo Inc. appears to have played out as yet another coup for online search leader Google Inc. Sat, 14 Jun 2008 08:30:00 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Michael+Liedtke?rinfoid=60584662 2008-06-14T08:30:00Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Michael+Liedtke?rinfoid=60498962 Yahoo Inc. became Microsoft Corp.'s takeover prey largely because Google Inc. established such a commanding lead in the Internet's lucrative search advertising market. Fri, 13 Jun 2008 12:42:17 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Michael+Liedtke?rinfoid=60498962 2008-06-13T12:42:17Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Michael+Liedtke?rinfoid=60406339 By MICHAEL LIEDTKE, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SAN FRANCISCO Hewlett-Packard Co. is buying Electronic Data Systems Corp. for $13.2 billion in a deal that will create the second largest technology services provider behind IBM. Thu, 12 Jun 2008 20:00:00 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Michael+Liedtke?rinfoid=60406339 2008-06-12T20:00:00Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Michael+Liedtke?rinfoid=60407512 A new specialty search engine is trying to become the Internet's go-to spot for finding how-to advice. Thu, 12 Jun 2008 17:22:19 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Michael+Liedtke?rinfoid=60407512 2008-06-12T17:22:19Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Michael+Liedtke?rinfoid=60376586 By Michael Liedtke, AP Google CEO Eric Schmidt said he hopes that their recently acquired advertising service DoubleClick will aid newspapers as they struggle to corral more online revenue. Thu, 12 Jun 2008 16:54:20 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Michael+Liedtke?rinfoid=60376586 2008-06-12T16:54:20Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Michael+Liedtke?rinfoid=60375572 There are times when I wonder whether or not Eric Schmidt, Chief Executive Officer of Google, learned his personal "art" of rhetoric from President George W. Bush. Consider yesterday's report from Associated Press Business Writer Michael Liedtke: Google Inc. Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said Wednesday that the Internet search leader hopes its recently acquired advertising service DoubleClick will aid newspapers as they struggle to corral more online revenue. "It's a huge moral imperative to help here," Schmidt said during a question-and-answer session at an event hosted in San Francisco by Syracuse University's Newhouse School of Public Communications. Without providing specifics about how it might be accomplished, Schmidt said DoubleClick's system for serving up online display ads could generate "significant" revenue online for newspapers. Still, he acknowledged the boost probably won't be enough to restore the hefty profit margins that newspaper publishers historically have enjoyed from print advertising. Let's accept this for what it is, which is nothing more than a public relations ploy for those still concerned that the DoubleClick acquisition was fundamentally monopolistic. Everything else is basically like the air in whipped cream, grounded on, at best, vague speculations about an optimistic future. If there is any moral imperative at stake here, it has more to do with the viability of journalism as both an institution and a profession. It has to do with that old-fashioned role of the newspaper as a public trust. It has to do with professional journalists who know how to "get" a story and translate what they got into that concise and compelling manner that used to leave us all hungering for one paper to read while commuting to work and another for the ride home. (Boy, are those images old-fashioned!) This, in turn, involves not only the journalists themselves but also the "standards of practice" of journalism, itself, as an institution. This institution is on the ropes, if not down for the count, as we recently saw in Michael Wolff's story on The New York Times for Vanity Fair . This is a moral imperative that grew out of the practices of capitalism that emerged from the world the Internet has made. In other words it is a consequence of the very practices that made Google a success and Schmidt as rich and powerful as he now is. The moral imperative is for Google and its executives to choose between growing their assets further (so they can spend on things like airplanes, space flights, and private power operations) or channeling a useful (as opposed to token) chunk of those assets to a few newspapers to help them recover their gutted staffs and, hopefully as a consequence, their gutted reputations. Oblivion to the latter choice would be nothing more than (to borrow a word from Judge John Sirica) moral poppycock. Thu, 12 Jun 2008 14:43:00 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Michael+Liedtke?rinfoid=60375572 2008-06-12T14:43:00Z