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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. OMG! by polyp2000 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    at first glance i thought that read "Microsoft in talks to buy China"

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