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Good morning! Digital Media Insider is delivered exclusively to BI Intelligence members first thing every morning.Got feedback? We’d love to hear from you! Drop us a line at nquah@businessinsider.com. Tech companies are paying to get around ad blocking: Google, Amazon, Microsoft and content marketing platform company Taboola are paying the company that makes AdBlock Plus, a popular software solution that allows users to block ads, to exclude their ads from the blocking system, the Financial Times reported Sunday. The financial terms of these deals remain unclear. The existence of these deals highlights how some of the biggest ad-driven tech companies…
Yahoo has scrapped its poker platform after just one month, dashing at least immediate hopes that it could offer real money play once the regulatory environment improves. (Image: Yahoo.com) Yahoo US Online Poker has shut down its play-money Texas Hold’em portal just one month after its launch, citing “changes in supporting technology” and a new product streamlining initiative. The move came as a surprise to many observers, who had speculated that the internet giant was preparing to monetize its platform once the U.S. regulatory environment becomes more favorable. The company had already had success raising real money with its fantasy…
Police say Amber Lynn Coplin’s body was discovered by her 13-year-old son.An American man accused of killing his girlfriend in Washington state, posting photos of her body online and asking people to kill him walked up to officers and turned himself in, police said.According to Clackamas County Sheriff’s Sergeant Nate Thompson, suspect David Karak, 33, was arrested in Wilsonville, about 20 miles (30 kilometers) south of Portland.As officers were patrolling the scene, a man emerged from a wooded area near the parking lot.”He basically said, ‘There’s a warrant out for your arrest,'” Thompson said in a phone interview. Karak was…
As evidence, they sent a link to a graph like the one below, which shows that Yahoo’s worldwide traffic has essentially remained steady, not collapsed: We don’t dispute this (and, as Yahoo shareholders and employees, we’re comforted by seeing it*). ComScore But the traffic drop we mention here is in Yahoo’s most important market: the United States. A staggering 75% of Yahoo’s revenue comes from the US. And in terms of revenue per unique user, US visitors are far more valuable than international visitors, especially those in the emerging markets that are the source of their international growth (see this…