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Online advertising M&A frenzy

May 18th, 2007 by Benjamin Kuo

The online advertising M&A frenzy is continuing unabated this morning, as Microsoft announced it is acquiring online ad firm aQuantive in a $6B deal. The deal comes one day after advertising firm WPP said it would acquire 24/7 Media for $649M in cash, and shortly after Google purchased Doubleclick in a $3.1B deal, and Yahoo purchased Right Media for $680M. The online advertising M&A frenzy has Westlake Village-based ValueClick seeing a brisk rally on Wall Street this morning.

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One Response to “Online advertising M&A frenzy”

  1. Benjamin Kuo’s Blog » Blog Archive » ValueClick: AOL purchase rumor Says:
    September 25th, 2007 at 1:21 pm

    [...] the markets today, on rumors that the firm may be acquired by AOL. ValueClick has been subject to rumors of an M&A since May, after a slew of Internet advertising related acquisitions in the [...]

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