The long-awaited collaboration of Microsoft and Yahoo on search has the tech business community abuzz. CEI analysts Wayne Crews and Ryan Young made their original statements here. Media outlets immediately took note, as seen in this Investor’s Business Daily story (posted, fitting enough, at Yahoo Finance) from yesterday:

Ryan Young, a fellow of regulatory studies at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, says the deal should be approved.

“It will make Google stay on its toes,” he said. “Bing and Yahoo should improve from the…

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The presidential campaign of a certain U.S. senator has just expanded the bounds of the political advertising universe with in-game ads inside popular EA gaming titles.

Racing towards hope?

The ads can be seen in nine popular titles, including “Madden NFL 09,” “Need For Speed: Carbon,” “Burnout Paradise.” I’m assuming this is the first time the campaign has intentionally associated itself with that last phrase.

For U.S. senator Barack Obama, that means being the first presidential candidate to buy ad space inside a…

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