DoubleClick Dumps Email Marketing Unit

Alliance Data Systems Corp. has purchased the email marketing unit for $90 million, and gains access to DoubleClick email clients like AOL and Proctor & Gamble.

GBuy the Google Wallet is Vital to Googles Future

Google has a long way to go before it can catch eBay's PayPal, which has almost 100 million user accounts. But by coupling the power of search to a stored payment system, Google might be able to recruit a critical mass of users quickly, and GBuy could, over the period of just a few months, become a formidable competitor.