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Microsoft In Talks To Buy Claria

Posted by Zonk on from the formerly-a-no-good-gator dept.

axonis writes "For the last two weeks, Microsoft has been in talks to buy Claria, an adware marketer formerly called Gator, and best known for its pop-up ads and software that tracks people visiting Web sites. The offer price on the table as recently as Wednesday was $500 million. One person briefed on the deal said there was opposition within Microsoft to the acquisition. Analysts said Microsoft would probably be most interested in the long-term potential of Claria's personalization software rather than its pop-up ads."

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  1. On the odd chance... by kaellinn18 · · Score: 4, Informative

    ...that there's someone who's in the dark on this:

    Linky

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  2. Gator and HomeSec by Tackhead · · Score: 4, Informative
    > old: Where do you want to go today?
    > new: We know where you've been!

    That's not (+5, Funny), it's (+5, Informative), you insensitive clod!

    Gator CPO at the Department of Homeland Security

    D. Reed Freeman, the "Chief Privacy Officer" of Claria Networks (formerly Gator), the creators of the pervasive spyware package GAIN, has been appointed to the Department of Homeland Security's "Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee"

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  3. Re:Antispyware, and now this? by NeoSkandranon · · Score: 2, Informative

    I suspect YMMV here; for me it was just the opposite. Giant Antispy removed a number of things that spybot and AdAware either didn't detect or couldn't remove completely.

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  4. Re:Is anyone else scared? by Politburo · · Score: 2, Informative

    the HSD

    FYI, the correct acronym is DHS (Department of Homeland Security).