Youtube.com: Click to buy Program to be Launched on Youtube Videos

YouTube's introduction of remnant post-roll advertising last week was just a taste of what the video giant is testing out to monetize its popularity. Starting today, the company is launching a new "Click-to-Buy" program.

Together with Amazon and iTunes, YouTube will now offer retail links underneath its videos to help viewers purchase the content that they're watching.

YouTube views today's announcement as a first step in creating a viable eCommerce platform for users and partners on on the site. "Ultimately advertising is most effective when it makes the most sense for what a user is doing at that moment," says YouTube spokesperson Aaron Zamost."The ultimate goal for youtube advertising is to create the right ad
for the right content."

Microsoft Bites Off: Steve Ballmer Gets off Mr. Schmidt's Hair For Now

Mr. Yang told Mr. Ballmer that Yahoo would not accept an offer below $37 a share, this person said.

“Despite our best efforts, including raising our bid by roughly $5 billion, Yahoo has not moved toward accepting our offer,” Mr. Ballmer said in a statement. “After careful consideration, we believe the economics demanded by Yahoo do not make sense for us, and it is in the best interests of Microsoft stockholders, employees and other stakeholders to withdraw our proposal.”

American Airlines's 1000 Flights + 900 Flights Canceled: More Flights Cancelations Coming Up

Flight cancelations by American Airlines have been causing a lot of headache. The company is trying to comply with FAA regulations. The FAA has been under fire for letting Southwest slide through the test. Congress held hearings to find out more about this cover up. Travelers are getting angry about being stuck at airports, far from home. So far, thousands of flights have been canceled, stranding the public.

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Wal-Mart Flagler Videos Attract Lots of Attention from Lawyers, Unions and Former Employees

How can Wal-Mart be so careless about hiring a company to shoot videos of its affairs on a handshake? Now that Wal-mart has hired a new video company, the 30-years-worth of videos depicting all kinds of meeting and products come back to hunt the giant company. With the right price, anybody with a grievance against Wal-Mart, can support their cases in court with the right clips. Now Flagler Video Productions is in the business of helping clients prove and win their case against Wal-Mart. For the right prices, you can put your hand on the treasure trove you needed. The best things that Wal-Mart can do is to buy the company.

Unions can get everything they have ever wanted to know about the company.

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Microsoft's Response to the New Deal

REDMOND, Wash. — April 9, 2008 — Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) today issued the following statement from Brad Smith, Microsoft’s General Counsel, related to an announcement today by Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO):

“Any definitive agreement between Yahoo! and Google would consolidate over 90% of the search advertising market in Google’s hands. This would make the market far less competitive, in sharp contrast to our own proposal to acquire Yahoo! We will assess closely all of our options. Our proposal remains the only alternative put forward that offers Yahoo! shareholders full and fair value for their shares, gives every shareholder a vote on the future of the company, and enhances choice for content creators, advertisers, and consumers.”

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Will Steve Ballmer Throw Another Chair at (Expletive) Google's Eric Schmidt?

Eric Schmidt and co stuck it to Steve Ballmer once more. They have engineered a new deal with Yahoo to carry Google Ads for two weeks. Yahoo! just announced that its board agreed with the plan. This announcement appears to annoy Steve Balmer who threw a chair at a departing MSFT engineer. The engineer was going to Google. That is not what Steve wanted to hear. So he got pissed off and started throwing things around, according to John Batelle of BatelleMedia.com

"At that point, Mr. Ballmer picked up a chair and threw it across the room hitting a table in his office. Mr. Ballmer then said: "Fucking Eric Schmidt is a fucking pussy. I'm going to fucking bury that guy, I have done it before, and I will do it again. I'm going to fucking kill Google." ...."

Steve is pissed of. So he wants to find a huge power to help him take over Yahoo that continues to fight for its life. Steve is going to Murdock to enlist News Corp's funding power trying to show stockholders that he is truly interested in having Yahoo. It is one more deal. At the same time, AOL's TimeWarner is entering a deal with Yahoo for some time.

Stick it to Steve Ballmer of Microsoft: See Your Ads on Google Network

Do you want to get the best bang for your dollar? Do you want to sell your products and attract new customers every day as they google everything on the planet? Well, then you need to have your precious company ads on Google. Start with the Adwords and start seeing the results. It is an easy system to use and post your ads. Microsoft does not want to see that Google's hard work is paying off right now. Steve is going against the triumvirate of Google. Now, we are hearing that Microsoft is trying to negotiate with News Corp to take over yahoo. That is doing evil.

With its vast network of web sites and companies displaying Google Ads, you will have a better ROI, return on investment. Your ads will be seen by more people.