So Google is buying Doubleclick. From CNNMoney: Search engine leader Google is buying privately held DoubleClick, a top digital marketing services firm, for $3.1 billion, the companies said Friday afternoon. Google (Charts) is buying DoubleClick from private equity firm Hellman & Friedman, which bought DoubleClick in 2005 for $1.1 billion in a deal that took [...]
So why is it appalling when the kid sees an ad for sugar-infused cereal on TV and asks us to buy some, but it’s totally okay to buy the sugar-infused ice cream that Stephen Colbert has been flogging on TV and feed it to said kid? Because it’s all meant ironically, of course! (I can’t [...]
This Paul Wolfowitz World Bank scandal, while it’s lots of fun to rant about and has just reminded me of a great Los Lobos album that I used to own in vinyl, is starting to nag at me a little. Thing is, Wolfowitz faced a really difficult choice when President Bush foisted him upon the [...]
