monopoly

We may never know what happened before AOL ran to the microphone to announce their Enhanced Whitelist's resuscitation. But both Goodmail and AOL deny there was any intent to corner the bulk email market, leaving the world outside AOL conference rooms to wonder.

By acquiring a majority stake in Intelliseek (which publishes BlogPulse), plugging that data into Buzzmetrics, and dubbing it Nielsen Buzzmetrics, Nielsen parent VNU effectively cornered the market on blog data.

Recently, those that follow the Internet technologies/graphics and multimedia industry were greeted with some rather interesting news: Adobe and Macromedia have agreed to a deal which allows Adobe to purchase Macromedia for an estimated 3.4 billion dollars (USD).