One of the biggest questions regarding the new Microsoft-Yahoo! deal is what will happen to Yahoo!'s search offerings in its Developer Network. Yahoo! is known for being pretty open, which was a major reasons that many thought last year's Microsoft acquisition offer was a bad idea. The cultures just didn't seem to mesh. Fast forward to yesterday and the deal was severely watered down from 2008 proposals. Yahoo!

Microsoft and comScore are teaming up to create a new digital ad planning tool. Dubbed the Reach and Frequency Planner, the tool will enable advertisers to predict reach, frequency and audience composition at the ad placement level. Audience measurement will combine ad serving data from Microsoft with demographic information from comScore. After the ad is placed, tracking will be enabled to see how closely the end result reflected the prediction. Ultimately,

We've been working to enable local currency reporting in more countries, and are happy to announce that this feature is now available for publishers located in Denmark and Norway. As a reminder, switching to these new reports means that all earnings generated from advertisers paying in other currencies will be converted to your local currency each day. If you receive payments in your local currency, there won't be any additional conversions at the end of the month,

While some states have created solid websites to provide information about their portion of the $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), most are failing to effectively educate taxpayers about the impact of economic stimulus spending, according to a report from Good Jobs First, an economic development research group.

Google's Marissa Mayer said the Yahoo-Microsoft search deal will not be good to industry competition . Specifically, she says that it will hamper innovation. But the Yahoo-Microsoft camp claimed that the recently announced search and advertising deal said other otherwise - that the deal will accelerate innovation, aside from generating efficiencies and create a stronger business than either company could create on their own.

Google's definitely leaving behind the period during which beta tags remained visible for years on end. Today, the search giant made a significant step by pulling the beta label off its new AdWords interface. As part of the change, more advertisers will be required to use the new interface exclusively. But given the laundry list of upgrades and new features it includes, this shouldn't present much of a problem. According to a post on the AdWords Blog ,

By now I'm assuming you know that Microsoft and Yahoo have signed a groundbreaking 10 year deal that sees Microsoft's Bing search technology replacing Yahoo's search engine and Yahoo's sales team taking the lead on high-end search sales for both channels. This is just the kind of news that sends us into our search geek clubhouse here at Reprise Media , where beers are opened, feet are kicked up,

Google was kind enough to invite me to a demonstration of the developer preview of Wave, straight from the Wave creators themselves. Google Wave Co-creators Lars and Jens Rasmussen last night treated a small group of journalists to the Wave experience in the Wave sandbox live from Google's San Francisco office. I found the Wave experience promising, but buggy. However, I had a few things working against my session, as you'll soon read. First,

This week WebProNews reported on a Twitter documentary that is in the works. The project's creator Siok Siok Tan of Singapore answered a few questions for us to give people an idea of what to expect. WebProNews: How did the idea for the concept of the Twitter documentary come about? Siok Siok Tan: The idea of doing a documentary on Twitter crossed my mind more than a year ago. I put the idea aside because I could not think of a way to put the film together.

by Mike Krumboltz Thursday's much-anticipated " beer summit " started rocking the Search box as soon as President Obama unveiled his plans to knock back a cold one (or two) with Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Cambridge police officer James Crowley . People are especially interested in which brews the trio will imbibe. For those wondering why two regular joes get to hang with President Obama, a bit of history: Two weeks ago,