What Privacy Problem? Web Ad Targeter Media6Degrees Raises $17 Million

More money for a Web ad start-up that promises marketers it can sniff out prospective buyers by tracking their “social signature.”

More Tim Armstrong Fallout: Departures at Google, AOL

More ripple effects from Tim Armstrong’s departure from Google to run AOL for Time Warner: Tom Phillips, Google’s director of search and analytics, is out. No word on whether he has a new job lined up, but he apparently won’t be joining Armstong and former Googler Jeff Levick at AOL. Still, the chatter is that Armstrong will bring over more Google vets before he’s done making over his team.
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Who Replaces Tim Armstrong at Google? The David Rosenblatt Fan Club Pipes Up.

Eric Schmidt says he’s going to pick an internal candidate to replace Tim Armstrong, the Google sales star who’s leaving to run AOL. And lot of people say David Rosenblatt, the former DoubleClick CEO who started working for Google a year ago after the acquisition, is his best choice.
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