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The FTC has unanimously approved Google’s $750 million acquisition of AdMob, ending a month of speculation that the deal would be either halted or altered. I wrote about my thoughts around this, calling the FTC short-sighted and that it needed to “get smart” on the mobile advertising space in my May 4th post. The Wall [...]

Google’s proposed $750 million acquisition of AdMob may now be challenged for antitrust reasons by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, over concerns that it’s search power is becoming too dominant. If the FTC blocks the deal or severely constrains the terms, it could lead to ramifications for the mobile advertising start-up, as it becomes a [...]

OK, as goes TechCrunch, so goes VentureBeat! All is lost! -Randy Giusto randygiusto@newdigitalcafe.com

Well, I was quite surprised that the folks over at TechCrunch today took some interesting data from AdMob and blew it up into something it clearly is not! In the post “Apple and Android Now Make Up 75 Percent of U.S. Smartphone Web Traffic” TechCrunch makes leaves one important word out of the headline— “Ad” [...]