Microsoft to Provide Ads to WSJ Sites
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Microsoft will become the new provider of paid search and contextual advertising links on sites run by The Wall Street Journal, the companies announced.
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Microsoft Corp.  said on  Tuesday it plans to introduce a Web-based version of its sales  and marketing software in 2007 as it targets rivals like  Salesforce.com , Oracle Corp. , and SAP AG   in a fast-growing market.
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Blog: Microsoft said it is teaming with Website Pros to offer an $80 monthly service to help small businesses set up and maintain their Web site.
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The two companies confirm their partnership, with Microsoft taking a $240 million stake in Facebook as well as gaining the right to sell ads for Facebook internationally.
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NEW YORK - Yahoo Inc. has agreed to extend its deal to place advertisements on Microsoft Corp.&#39;s MSN sites in the United States and overseas by one year through June 2006, Yahoo said Thursday.
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Facebook will sell a $240 million minority stake to Microsoft, which as part of the deal will also expand the advertising services it provides to the social networking phenom, the companies said Wednesday in a statement.The size of the ownership stake Microsoft will take during Facebook&#39;s next round of financing puts Facebook&#39;s valuation at a whopping $15 billion.&#160;Google had reportedly been courting Facebook as well.In addition to the ownership piece, Microsoft will also extend its existing agreement to provide banner ads to Facebook in the U.S. With this deal, Microsoft will become Facebook&#39;s exclusive third-party ad platform as well as provide Facebook ads internationally.Facebook will likely devote the cash influx from its next financing round to bankroll the torrid growth it is expecting in the coming 12 months in usage and headcount.With about 300 employees now, Facebook expects to have about 700 a year from now, its CEO and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg said last week at the&#160;Web 2.0 Summit.Meanwhile, the site is growing its usage at breakneck speed with about 250,000 new users registering every day.Founded in 2004, it currently has about 49 million active users today, up from 12 million in December. More than half of its active members return to the site daily. Some 59 percent of its users are outside the U.S.Earlier Wednesday, The Wall Street Journal and The New York Post reported that Facebook was in the final stages of making a decision on whether to do this deal with Microsoft or Google.For Microsoft, which hasn&#39;t attained as strong a position in online advertising as it had hoped and lags behind Google, landing this deal could be a major win, as long as Facebook proves to be as attractive an advertising vehicle as expected.The Journal reported later on Wednesday that Facebook expects a profit of about $30 million this year, on revenue of $150 million.Google and Yahoo provide ads for Facebook rival MySpace.Still, questions remain about social networking sites&#39; full potential for advertising, since most of their content is largely unregulated and created by millions of individuals, resulting often in material that is vulgar and objectionable.Facebook plans to share more ideas for revving up its advertising business on Nov. 6, at an event in New York to which it has invited what it calls &quot;its closest advertisers.&quot;&quot;As part of [the event], Facebook executives will discuss new approaches for advertising online,&quot; a Facebook spokeswoman said. &quot;We are not sharing any further details.&quot;Facebook, MySpace, and others are also under close scrutiny from law enforcement agencies in the U.S. and abroad because sexual predators use social-networking sites to stalk and victimize people, in particular minors.The Journal first reported Google&#39;s and Microsoft&#39;s pursuit of the Facebook investment a month ago.
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Microsoft plans to announce Monday its latest product to assist advertisers across its multiple platforms and services. The company says those companies using the service could potentially reach 465 million consumers.
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A Microsoft Corp. MSFT.O spin-off on   Tuesday said it will take on Internet social networks   MySpace.com and Facebook.com, touting tools users can buy to   craft better-looking Web pages.
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The Washington Post Co. is buying Microsoft Corp.&#39;s online magazine Slate in an effort to boost online traffic. The acquisition by the Post, which also owns The Herald, will reduce Slate&#39;s presence in the
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The Wall Street Journal says Microsoft has proposed an investment that would give it a stake of up to 5 percent in Facebook.
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Microsoft will take a 240-million-dollar stake in the wildly popular social-networking website Facebook as part of an expansion of the strategic alliance of the two firms, the companies said Wednesday.
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Facebook and Microsoft Corp on  Wednesday said the world's largest software maker will become  the exclusive provider of banner advertising and sponsored  links on the social networking Web site as part of a strategic  alliance.
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A top executive for Web marketing  company DoubleClick DCLK.O on Tuesday said Microsoft Corp's  MSFT.O MSN Web portal will use its rich media ads online,  paving the way for wider use of a key DoubleClick  product.
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Microsoft is joining search firms Google, Yahoo! and British advertising agency WPP in the battle to sell internet advertising.
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Microsoft Corp., worldâs largest software maker, has entered the blog market with its new MSN Spaces beta service that it started offering to end-users starting Thursday.
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New technologies from Microsoft will help advertisers better target ads to content in search, video, on Web pages and public kiosks.
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Microsoft hopes to make up for smaller traffic levels on Live Search by offering more tools for advertisers in adCenter.